#170 | Words to Study in the Text
On Preaching with H.B. Charles Jr.
H.B. Charles, Jr.
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🗓️ 12 August 2024
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to The On Preaching Podcast, the podcast dedicated to helping you preach faithfully, clearly, and better.Â
In this episode, H.B. discusses the words you should consider in your sermon text for further study. You should note these words in your observation of the text and study them in the interpretation phase of your word work.Â
What words should you study in the text?Â
- Unfamiliar Words
- Familiar WordsÂ
- Technical WordsÂ
- Repeated WordsÂ
- Confusing WordsÂ
- Action WordsÂ
- Proper NamesÂ
- Variant WordsÂ
- Figurative SpeechÂ
- Quoted WordsÂ
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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. |
| 0:24.1 | Good day and thanks for listening to the podcast. |
| 0:27.4 | In this episode, I want to talk to you about words to study in your text. |
| 0:35.1 | Words to study in your text of course themes and ideas and subjects are key matters in |
| 0:48.3 | Bible study and sermon preparation but the least common denominator of inspired scripture are words words matter |
| 1:01.0 | words matter because Jesus quoting Deuteronomy says in Matthew 4 4 man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God. |
| 1:18.4 | I want you to hear that again. |
| 1:20.6 | We live by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God. is found in every word God speaks there is |
| 1:32.1 | nothing superfluous or unnecessary in the scriptures the words matter and so a key part of sermon preparation, particularly in the word work phase, the exegetical study of a passage is the study of words. And I want to talk to you about words that you should be looking for as you study your selected sermon text |
| 2:03.9 | now I'm going to talk about words but I want to say something about the um phase of study |
| 2:13.2 | these words should come up in indeed in the interpretive phrase a phase that is of your study |
| 2:24.5 | you want to you want to start using your tools to look up the meaning of words you want to dig to |
| 2:33.7 | understand meaning and grammar and usage and the resources |
| 2:41.1 | that are available to us are all helpful in that regard but when I talk about words to study |
| 2:49.8 | in your text I'm not talking yet about the interpretive phrase. |
| 2:55.5 | I'm talking about the observation phase. |
| 2:58.9 | In inductive Bible study, observation asks, what does the text say? |
| 3:05.4 | Interpretation asks and answers, what does the text text mean and when I talk about words to |
| 3:11.2 | study here I'm I'm talking about that observational question about what the text says I'm I want |
| 3:19.0 | to talk to you about things you should just be on the lookout for in the very early stages of your study. |
| 3:26.9 | You might not have the answers to the questions, |
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