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Let's pray together.

Father, my heart's desire now is that your word would be honored, your name would be magnified, Christ

would be exalted through the preaching of your word not just in this moment but in the

way I talk about preaching would you make preaching more faithful to your word, more magnifying to Jesus, more purifying to your church, more powerful in the world. Lord these are days of extraordinary

need in the midst of a Corona virus and preaching is crucial. will always be crucial and so I am so eager to do what

I can to be a part of making, preaching in our pulpits now and as long as you

tarry as powerful as it can be for the glory of Jesus and I ask this in his name now. Amen. So the title I was

given for this message was preaching the gospel as expanding the whole Bible.

It wasn't my title, it was given to me.

I was happy to take it.

So let me try to tell you what I think it means.

It assumes, I think, that we should in our preaching as pastors expound the whole Bible.

Now that's a good assumption because Paul says all scripture is profitable all of it everywhere in the Bible

anything you draw out truly is beneficial for God's people, 2nd Timothy 3 16. Then, what, four verses later, 2, preach the word and I take the flow of thought there to mean the word that was just spoken of, namely, all

scripture is inspired by God, preach the word.

So the first part of my assignment

is in a title, expound the whole Bible. Great assumption. It doesn't mean, I assume, preach every verse of the Bible.

Open every verse of the Bible.

You can't do that. You can't do that in a lifetime. Not if you take exposition seriously. Like I'm going to really

open what this verse says. It can't be done. So what does it mean? What does it mean?

What does preach the whole Bible mean? I think it means in the 40 or 50 years that you're ministering in the pulpit you

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