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🗓️ 25 March 2013
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0:00.0 | Pastor John, you want said in a message, quote, |
0:07.6 | everything I write is to try and find a way to say the obvious in a way that will make |
0:11.3 | people bolt awake and come alive in Jesus. |
0:14.0 | And quote, explain that for us. Obviously, this awakening is a work of Holy Spirit, |
0:18.4 | but what role does creative language play as a means of awakening centers? |
0:23.9 | I have been wrestling with that question for years and years. I did a talk. |
0:28.2 | Is there Christian eloquence? I think was that 2006 or something at one of our national |
0:33.1 | conferences and the recent thing that I did on Herbert is related to that. I'm always |
0:38.5 | thinking as a preacher and a writer, does my language make any difference? Because clearly, |
0:45.2 | the Bible teaches, I planted a polished water, God gave the growth. God is the decisive growth |
0:54.8 | given. Or Ephesians 2.5, God made us alive when we were dead. Dead men are not impressed by |
1:01.7 | vocabulary, right? God raises the dead and they're not raised by my poetic effort. |
1:12.8 | First Peter 1, 23, we are born not a perishable seed, but imperishable through the word of God. |
1:24.6 | So the perishable seed is the Holy Spirit. He does the beginning and the instrument is the word of |
1:31.7 | God, which verse 25 says, is the gospel, which we preach. And then Jesus said in John 3, |
1:38.4 | the wind blows where it wails. We don't know where it comes from, where it's going. So are all |
1:42.9 | who are born of the Spirit. So the message of the Bible is God raises the dead. God causes people |
1:50.0 | to be born again and it is not decisively our instrumentality. So the question is really urgent |
1:58.5 | for me because should I draw the conclusion? Well, since God can save people through bad grammar |
2:06.3 | and he can save people through flat demeanor and he can save people through prosaic speech and |
2:13.2 | heavily accented English or German or whatever language people are hearing the gospel in and he |
2:22.4 | can do it through faulty exegesis and lopsided presentations and hypocritical preachers even. |
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