Joseph’s garment was torn from him by his brothers (Gen. 37:23), and it was taken in order to tell a lie about him (Gen. 37:32). Joseph’s garment was torn from him by Potiphar’s wife (Gen. 39:12), and it was taken in order to tell a lie about him (Gen. 39:18). Joseph’s garment was placed on …
Gospel Presence II: Gospel Center, Gospel Edges
Introduction The gospel message provides a hard center for our lives, but we must make sure that we do not understand this as an isolated hard center. We want the gospel to be a taproot to the entire tree, and not an isolated boulder in a field of scattered boulders. The litmus test is whether …
Gospel Presence I: The Resurrection of the World
INTRODUCTION:The resurrection of Jesus was not an odd circumstance in an otherwise unchanged world. This world is not what it used to be because this world is the place where a man once came back from the dead. And when He came back, it was not as a resuscitation, as happened with Lazarus, but as …
Not to Be Done
“Preachers often lose sight of their fundamental and inexcusable error, of saying that a passage of God’s Word means what it does not mean” (Broadus, Preparation and Delivery, pp. 67-68).
A Car With Brakes
“And the allegorical, in the broad sense of that term, is very widely and variously employed in the Scriptures of truth . . . With such a foundation in the nature of things, and with so much support in the actual usage of the Bible, it is not strange that there has always been on …
What It Says and No More
“We must bring to bear upon men’s minds as a part of God’s Word, only what the text really means, as best we can ascertain it” (Broadus, Preparation and Delivery, p. 65).
Spiritual Disciplines: Work
INTRODUCTION:God breathed the breath of life in Adam, and he became a living soul (Gen. 2:7). Having created him as a living soul, He gave him an abundance of food to eat (Gen. 1:29). The third thing that happened was that God gave him a task (Gen. 2:15). His immediate task was to tend the …
Not Included in Plenary Inspiration
“The result has been to lead both preachers and hearers to think of every chapter and every verse as a sort of separate whole. It is curious to observe how rarely we hear read in public the latter part of one chapter and earlier part of the next, though the slightest care for the real …
We Don’t Do It Elsewhere
“No man of sense, in dealing with any other book, would think of interpreting a single sentence here or there, in disregard of its connection” (Broadus, Preparation and Delivery, p. 60).
Spiritual Disciplines: Eat
INTRODUCTION:So there are three imperatives we are considering as we look at the spiritual disciplines. They are breathe, eat, and work. We have already seen the need for the gift of breath, and we will now look at the charge to eat. THE TEXT:“And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, “Of every tree of …