PowerPoint Presentation: Christ

Pastors Conference 2015
CHRIST-CENTERED EXPOSITORY
PREACHING
The Christ-Centered Perspective
THE BIG IDEA OF A CHRISTIAN BIBLE
A WHOLE BIBLE
Old v. New? or Older v. Newer?
The testaments may not be separated
because the Old Testament is incomplete
without the New and the New is
incomprehensible without the Old
(He. 11:11-27).
WHOLE BIBLE (cont.)
One covenant or many?
There is one covenant of grace that runs
through the Old Testament and New
Testament—salvation is by grace alone through
faith.
Subsequent covenants only add more details
(Lk. 24:25-27)
WHOLE BIBLE (cont.)
One people of God or two?
Though God began with the Jews,
throughout redemptive history God has
grafted any person saved by grace into that
one olive tree
(Ga. 3:6-9; Ro. 11:17-22; He. 11:13-16)
A WHOLLY CHRISTIAN BIBLE
The central message of the cross unites the
Bible as it does all of redemptive history
—(Ge. 3:15; Ex. 20; Is. 53; Ha. 2:14;
Ac. 2:23-24;1 Co. 1:22-24; Re. 13:8)
WHOLLY CHRISTIAN BIBLE
A message is not biblical unless it is Christ-centered:
The Bible does not contain many histories but one history—the one
history of God’s constantly advancing revelation, the one history of
God’s ever progressive redemptive work. And the various persons
named in the Bible have all received their own peculiar place in this
one history and have their peculiar meaning for this history. We
must, therefore, try to understand all the accounts in their relation
with each other, in their coherence with the center of redemptive
history, Jesus Christ.
—Holwerda in Sidne Greidanus, Sola Scriptura, 41.
CHRIST CENTERED (cont.)
Organic v. Fragmentary Approach to Scripture
The Bible is not made up of disconnected facts, stories and
biographies—this approach to Scripture begins with the
assumption that every historical text is ultimately
Christocentric because it occurs in redemptive history and
redemptive history is the history of Christ.
—Greidanus, 135
CHRIST-CENTERED
Synthetic v. Atomistic Approach
Scripture is not a collection of separate items—this approach
to interpreting Scripture has elements that fit together in such
a way as to carry its own unique application. The Bible is not
a collection of disparate tales, but a progression of thought
that makes one ultimate point.
CHRIST-CENTERED
Theocentric v. “Jesuscentric” Approach
We do not draw distinct lines from a biblical story or event to a
specific occurrence in Jesus’ earthly ministry—this approach
recognizes that every story in the Bible is a portion of God’s big
story which is redemption in Jesus Christ. Every event at every
point of redemptive history (whether it is in Exodus or Acts) is
about God’s bringing victory over the serpent’s seed through the
seed of the woman. “Christ is at work in the flood, in Egypt, at
Horeb, in Babylon, in Bethlehem, at Golgotha, at Pentecost, in
Rome—always Christ”
—Greidanus, 145
CHRIST-CENTERED
Theocentric v. Anthropocentric Approach
We do not teach that men and women are merely positive or
negative exemples from which we derive moral lessons. A
theocentric approach views men and women as agents in whom
God is at work in redemption: “they have a specific task in
redemptive history, a specific office, and hence, a specific
significance for the appearance of Christ and his work. . . . The
Koran, the book of Mormon, and other literature may mention the
same person, but only in the Bible do they appear in this context of
the great battle initiated by the triune God to redeem his people
and to advance his Kingdom till God shall be all and in all.
Sola Scriptura (Greidanus, 147)
THE BIG TEST OF YOUR TEACHING
“IF YOU. . .YOU MIGHT BE A . . .”
God loves us. . .
 Make your family a priority. . .
 Jesus exemplifies obedience. . .
 You must be an evangelist. . .
 Be holy. . .
 God forgives. . .
 You must be baptized by immersion. . .
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CHRIST-CENTERED PRACTICE
Expository, Christ-Centered, History
HEROES
HEROES: JOHN BROADUS
EXPOSITORY PREACHING
HEROES: ROBERT G. RAYBURN
EXPOSITORY PREACHING
HEROES: JOHN SANDERSON
CHRIST-CENTERED PREACHING
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HEROES: SIDNEY GREIDANUS
CHRIST-CENTERED PREACHING
HEROES: JOHN SANDERSON
CHRIST-CENTERED PREACHING
HEROES: BRYAN CHAPELL
CHRIST-CENTERED PREACHING
HEROES: DENNIS JOHNSON
CHRIST-CENTERED PREACHING
HEROES: HUGHES OLIPHANT OLD
HISTORY OF PREACHING
PREACHING: ESSENTIAL FOR PEOPLE

Daniel Alexander Payne (18111893
The only safe guide for a
man or woman, young or
old, rich or poor, learned
or unlearned, priest or
people is the Bible, the
whole Bible, nothing but
the Bible.
HEROES: THABITI ANYABWILE
PASTOR-SCHOLAR
HEROES: CONTEMPORARY EXAMPLES
HEROES: VODDIE BAUCHAM
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BACKGROUND
Judah 605
B.C.
Habakkuk
Augusta
2014
DICK LUCAS, RECTOR ST. HELEN’S BISHOPSGATE (1961-1998)
HABAKKUK
Who
 What
 When
 Where
 How
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WHO
Name means “embrace” or “caress”
 Habakkuk was a prophet who prayed boldly
 Contemporary of Jeremiah, Nahum and
Zephaniah
 “God is the friend of the honest doubter who
dares to talk to God rather than about him”
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Achtemeier
WHAT
Only prophecy in which questions and complaints
of people are taken to God rather than word of
God delivered to the people
 Habakkuk questioned the justice of God
 God answered with long view of redemptive
history
 Book for sufferers
 Quoted in Ro. 1:17; Ga. 3:11; He. 10:38
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WHEN
625 to 575 B.C. (609-605 B.C.)
 Saw two significant historical events: fall of
Nineveh to Medes and deportation to Babylon
 During reigns of Manasseh, Josiah, Jehoahaz,
Jehoiakim
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WHERE
Judah (931-586 B.C.)
 2 Kings 18-24 (Hezekiah – Jehoiakim)
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HOW
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Habakkuk learned and sought to teach us that
“faith and fact are not always compatible in the
world of sense and sight, but that is not the whole
world. There is a world of justice that only God
fully comprehends. His people must accept by
faith what they cannot confirm in fact.”
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Barker, K. L. (1999).
OUTLINE, OUTLINE,
OUTLINE!
OUTLINE BOOK
I Title (1:1)
 II Habakkuk’s First Complaint (1:2-4)
 III God’s Answer (1:5-11)
 IV Habakkuk’s Second Complaint (1:12-2:1)
 V God’s Answer (2:2-20)
 VI Habakkuk’s Prayer (3)
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EXEGETICAL OUTLINE HABAKKUK 1:2-4
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How long?
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Call for help
Cry out “violence”
But you. . .
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Do not listen
Do not save
Why do you?
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Make me look at injustice
Tolerate wrongdoing
[This is true]
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Destruction, violence,
strife, conflict abound
Law is paralyzed
Justice never prevails
Wicked hem in righteous
Justice is perverted
OUTLINE SECTION HABAKKUK 2:2-5
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Now you do it!
 Exegetical
Outline
 Teaching Outline
STUDY
OLD STANDARDS
New
Exegetical
NEW INTERNATIONAL COMMENTARY ON THE OLD TESTAMENT
HOMILETICAL
I. BASIC BUILDING BLOCKS
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FCF: What is the need exposed?
Proposition: What is the supply? What should be
the response?
Main Points: Aspects of the supply or aspects of
the response
Application
Sweeteners
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Introduction
Conclusion
Illustrations
FALLEN CONDITION
FOCUS
The FCF is the mutual
human condition that
contemporary believers
share with those to or for
whom the text was written
that requires the grace of
the passage.
PROPOSITION
“I am of the conviction no sermon is ready for
preaching nor ready for writing out until we can express
its theme in a short, pregnant sentence as clear as
crystal. I find the getting of that sentence the hardest,
the most exacting, and the most fruitful labor of my
study. To compel oneself to fashion that sentence to
dismiss every word that is vague, ragged, ambiguous,
to think oneself through to a form of words which
defines the theme with scrupulous exactness – this is
surely one of the most vital and essential factors in the
making of a sermon: and I do not think any sermon
ought to be preached or ever written until that sentence
has emerged clear and lucid as a cloudless moon.”
BOOT CAMP
Develop FCF and organic connection from:
1.
2.
3.
4.
Epistle (Ja. 4:1-10; Co. 2:6, 7; 3:1-17)
Narrative (Ge. 22:1-19; Ge. 38; 2 Sa. 9; Esther)
Prophetic (Jer. 18; Jonah)
Poetry (Ps. 22; Ps. 46; Ps. 88; Songs)
FALLEN CONDITION FOCUS 1:2-4
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Need = Disappointment:
 Habakkuk
is disappointed that Josiah was killed, that
Jehoiakim should be entrusted with kingship, that the
wicked succeed and the righteous are humiliated.
PROPOSITION

Supply: God corrects Habakkuk’s finite
perspective and provides an eternal redemptive
perspective
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Response: Habakkuk worships by faith
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Because God is the sovereign redeemer, we must
worship by faith
TEACHING OUTLINE
When you view God through disappointment:
 I. You become angry (1:2a)
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II. God becomes distant (1:2b)
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III. Life becomes unlivable (1:3-4)