Tag: Who Is Sufficient?

“A great danger in the ministry is to become stale, stunted, or stilted in our mental life.”

Olford, Anointed Expository Preaching, p. 54

“‘Be diligent to present yourself approved to God’ (v. 15, emphasis ours) As a young preacher, Timothy was exhorted to exert every effort to present himself to God as one approved. That term comes from the world of industry and coinage; it has to do with the testing of metals”

Olford, Anointed Expository Preaching, (p. 53).

“Unnumbered hours have been spent trying to straighten out men who are too proud to listen to words of caution or counsel. Such preachers attract gullible followers because of their natural charisma and seductive oratory; but they do more harm than can be estimated this side of eternity.”

Olford, Anointed Expository Preaching, p. 40

[Concerning 1 Tim. 6:3-5] “In Paul’s day, there were liberal teachers and preachers, just as we have them in our time, and Paul was most concerned that young Timothy not be caught up in the ‘battle of words’ which characterized their brand of indoctrination. William Barclay informs us . . .”

Olford, Anointed Expository Preaching, p. 39

“In Old Testament times, this appellation was assigned to a person who had been entrusted with a divine office. Moses was called ‘the man of God’ (Dt. 33:1); David was called ‘the man of God’ (2 Chron. 8:14); Elijah was called ‘man of God’ (2 Kings 1:9); the prophets were called ‘men of God’ (1 Sam. 2:27) . . . in the above text [1 Tim. 6:11], however, the apostle has in mind young Timothy, who had been called to be the preacher and pastor of the church(es) in the city of Ephesus and its environs.”

Olford, Anointed Expository Preaching, pp. 38-39

“The sin of despising [the person of the Holy Spirit] and rejecting his work now is the same nature with idolatry of old and with the Jews’ rejection of the person of the Son”

John Owen, in Olford, Anointed Expository Preaching, p. 29.

“‘That [we might] be complete’ (v. 17) We cannot lead others into spiritual maturity if we are still babes!”

Olford, Anointed Expository Preaching, p. 27

“If a man is truly called of God to be a preacher, then he is committed to declare ‘the whole counsel of God’ (Acts 20:27)”

Olford, Anointed Expository Preaching, p. 19

“‘For do I now persuade men, or God? Or do I seek to please men? For it I still pleased men, I would not be a bondservant of Christ’ (v. 10). In the light of these solemn words that Paul boldly asserts, the matter of fearless preaching becomes a ‘must’ to the authentic preacher”

Olford, Anointed Expository Preaching, p. 15

“Preaching is essential incarnation. If we would be followers of the Prince of Preachers, then all our preaching should be a ‘fleshing out’ of the pattern that Jesus left for us.”

Olford, Anointed Expository Preaching, p. 11