#176 | Biblical Convictions for Expository Preaching
On Preaching with H.B. Charles Jr.
H.B. Charles, Jr.
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🗓️ 14 November 2024
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to The On Preaching Podcast, the podcast dedicated to helping you to preach faithfully, clearly, and better.
In this episode, H.B. discusses biblical convictions for expository preaching.
If you do not believe the Bible, you should not be in the pulpit! If you are to be a faithful preacher, you must know where you stand and why. What must you believe about scripture to preach faithfully and fruitfully?
- Scripture is necessary.
- Scripture is divine.
- Scripture is true.
- Scripture is authoritative.
- Scripture is inerrant.
- Scripture is clear.
- Scripture is sufficient.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the on preaching podcast with H.B. Charles Jr. The podcast dedicated to helping you preach |
| 0:15.6 | faithfully, clearly, and better. |
| 0:27.4 | Good day and thanks for listening to the podcast. |
| 0:35.5 | In this episode, I want to talk to you about biblical convictions for expositional preaching. |
| 0:42.9 | 2 Timothy chapter four verse two commands commissions charges the preacher to preach the word I'm always fascinated with that |
| 0:50.6 | exhortation with that imperative because there Paul does not just tell Timothy |
| 0:55.1 | that he must preach. He also tells him what he must preach. We're not just called to get up |
| 1:03.6 | and talk about whatever suits our fancy. We are heralds who have been entrusted with a message and we do not |
| 1:13.3 | have authorial editorial authority over the content of that message we are |
| 1:19.2 | charged to preach the word in fact when I am asked why exposition matters why is exposition important or what difference does |
| 1:32.6 | exposition make my um front pocket answer is simply that 2 Timothy chapter 4 verses 1 and 2 |
| 1:41.2 | come right after 2 Timothy chapter 3 verses 6 and 7 since the Bible is |
| 1:48.9 | breathed out by God the duty of the preacher the commission of the preacher the mandate |
| 1:57.1 | on the preacher is to preach the word. Really, when you get beyond the various styles |
| 2:05.4 | and elements of preaching, the heart of the matter is how a person preaches inevitably betrays |
| 2:14.6 | what he believes about the Bible. How one preaches, reveals, betrays what he believes about the Bible. |
| 2:26.0 | How one preaches, reveals, betrays, exposes what one truly thinks about the Bible. |
| 2:41.6 | And so really, if you're going to be a faithful Bible expositor, one who takes the word of God and simply explains it and exhorts the people to live out the life of the teachings of our faith. |
| 2:45.6 | You have to have very clear convictions about what you believe about the Bible. |
| 2:54.3 | I tell you, in this season of my life, there are things that weigh on me very heavily. |
| 3:00.3 | One of them is that I just don't want to let go of my Bible. |
| 3:11.4 | I'm discouraged and frustrated and overwhelmed as I see high-profile preachers in various settings who are celebrated in spite of the fact that they jettison biblical and historic Christian truth. They openly |
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