DAILY TRUTH - What Makes For A Good Sermon？
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Summary
Pastor Joel Webin talks about what it means to be a faithful preacher, how to be faithful in preaching, and how to apply the word of God in all areas of our lives. Join us at the Right Response Conference in Georgetown, Texas on May 5th-7th, 2019, for a conference with Dr. James White, Dr. Joseph Boot, and Dr. Gary DeMar.
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Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Hold it. Big announcement, a scary announcement, a threat,
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but also a promise. The price of our conference, the post-millennial and theonomy conference,
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it's going up. It's going up right after Reformation Day. We are going to hold the
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price at $100, which is super cheap for a three-day conference with Dr. James White, Dr. Joseph Boot,
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Dr. Gary DeMar, and the guy who's not a doctor, so we'll say Pastor Joel Webin. We've got a great
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conference, May 5th, 6th, and 7th in Georgetown, Texas, just north of Austin for a hundred bucks,
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super cheap, but we can't hold that price forever. So if you want to get into that price,
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you got to get in now, right after Reformation Day, not Halloween, Reformation Day, October 31st.
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That's the last day that you can get in this conference, register at the price of a hundred
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bucks. After that, starting November 1st, it's going to be 130. So go to rightresponseconference.com,
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writeresponseconference.com and register today. Thanks.
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Jesus said, man cannot live on bread alone, but from every word that proceeds from the mouth of
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God. You're listening to Daily Truth. Faithful preaching always contains at least three parts,
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that it contains a revelation, an interpretation, and an application. That revelation is a text,
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not the revelation of man, not, hey, I had a dream last night and I think it was from the Lord,
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but a revelation from God's word, his infallible and perfect and eternal word. And so we're always
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going to have a primary text of scripture that is the revelation, if you will. And then by God's
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grace, we strive to have a faithful interpretation. That is a faithful exegesis saying, here's the
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text. And this is what the text actually means. I like what the late great R.C. Sproul says. He
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says there's always with any given text only one faithful interpretation however the third part
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revelation interpretation application R.C. Sproul he goes on to say that but there are perhaps
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limitless faithful applications meaning that this one text of God's word this revelation
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it has one interpretation that is faithful the one one exegesis that is correct but it can be
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applied to as many spheres of life as you can possibly imagine. It could be applied to being
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a husband and a wife and a father and a mother. It could be applied to being a citizen, right?
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And your duties as a citizen of this state, it could be applied to vocation and work and church
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life and all these different things. And so our goal is not to eisegete, which would be to read
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into the text what God does not mean, what God does not intend to say. And yet at the same time,
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we recognize that there are many applications. So eisegesis, just for the record, this is a good
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teaching point for us to understand. Eisegesis is to read into a particular text at the level of
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interpretation, right? So three steps, revelation, interpretation, application. To eisegesis is to
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read into the text at the level of interpretation, exegesis, at the level of meaning, a meaning that
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is the preacher's meaning, perhaps, but not actually God's meaning. Whereas when we come
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to the third step, application, and we begin to say, well, I think this applies to family life.
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I think this applies in part to politics or vocation or all these different things.
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That's not eisegeting. That's applying the word. And the difference between an audible commentary,
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which are helpful, I listen to them, but the difference between an audible commentary and
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a sermon is that an audible commentary has a revelation, a text, and an interpretation,
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an exegesis. But a sermon must go one step further and begin to say, not only this is the word of
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the Lord, this is what the word of the Lord means, but then also, and this, therefore, is what you
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should believe and do. That's an application. That's what makes for faithful preaching. So our
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church is committed by God's grace to doing our very best to attaining that goal of preaching.
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you can help us get this biblically faithful content to as many people as possible. Thanks so much.