#155 | Key Questions for Proper Interpretation
On Preaching with H.B. Charles Jr.
H.B. Charles, Jr.
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🗓️ 12 March 2024
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to The On Preaching Podcast, the Podcast dedicated to helping you preach faithfully, clearly, and better.
In this episode, H.B. discusses eleven questions you should ask to properly interpret your sermon text.
- What is the book about?
- What is the literary genre?
- What are the word meanings?
- What is the literal reading?
- What is the immediate context?
- What is the grammatical structure?
- What is the historical background?
- What is the primary theme?
- What is the authorial intent?
- What is the analogy of faith?
- What is the gospel focus?
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| 0:00.0 | This is the on preaching podcast with H.B. Charles Jr. |
| 0:13.1 | The podcast dedicated to helping you preach faithfully, clearly, and better. |
| 0:27.1 | Good day and thanks for listening to the podcast. |
| 0:33.2 | In this episode, I want to talk to you about key questions for proper interpretation. |
| 0:44.9 | So I, in my weekly study, basically basically am using a refined form of the inductive Bible study method. |
| 0:58.4 | The principle of inductive Bible study means you start with the specifics to get to the general you start with the particular details of the text and then you move from the specific details to the significance to the meaning to the purpose of them |
| 1:06.6 | the opposite is deductive which can be dangerous for bible study where you start with a general idea, a general theme, a general point, and then you work it into the details. |
| 1:19.2 | You work backwards and find those details in the text. |
| 1:22.7 | I hope you can see how that can be a dangerous negotiation. |
| 1:32.2 | Really, the proper way to study the Bible is inductively. |
| 1:42.1 | Just start with what is there and study the details of the text before you. And when you put all of those details details together it will lead you to a conclusion about the |
| 1:48.6 | meaning of the text and so a key part of the inductive Bible study process is interpretation |
| 1:58.6 | in a real sense friends this is the whole ballgame of preaching and |
| 2:03.6 | teaching. You want to make sure you are in the language of 2 Timothy 215. You are rightly dividing |
| 2:11.6 | or rightly handling the word of truth. And so I want to talk to you in this episode of the podcast about |
| 2:18.5 | interpretation. Let me begin with just several introductory principles. The first introductory |
| 2:28.1 | principle I'll start with is this. The proper interpretation is the foundation of biblical |
| 2:32.7 | preaching. This is the point i've already been |
| 2:36.0 | trying to make in the opening statements that i've already made there there is maybe three |
| 2:43.0 | elements to preaching there is homiletics hermeneutics, and human need. There is the meaning, the message, and the motive. |
| 2:58.9 | Let me try it that way. The meaning is the proper understanding of the text that you are preaching. |
| 3:08.0 | The message is the sermon you have crafted on the basis of that text. |
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