Tuesday is for Preaching
Question: Can you think of one person in the New Testament who came to faith in Christ apart from hearing the word of Christ and the Kingdom?
“Preach the word, in season and out of season, reprove, rebuke and exhort with all patience and careful instruction.”
(2 Tim. 4:2)
There is a moral component to being ready as well as an intellectual one. Keep a clean heart brothers so you are ready “in season and out” (when it is convenient and when it is not; when you will be applauded and when you will not).
Keep your heart pressed into the Holy Spirit. Make your dependence on him deep.
And study. Know the word. Love the word. Defend the word. Preach the word. Give your best efforts to it. Make sure you understand what the writer’s argument is. Craft your words to penetrate defenses, explode with light, pulsate with vigor. “The Preacher” we are told “sought to find beautiful words and to speak words of truth accurately” (Eccl. 12:10). Make sure you apply the text accurately to the ills of today and make sure that you do what Jesus did on the Emmaus road, what Philip did with the Ethiopian–from every text–reveal the risen Christ. Paint an exalted picture of Christ. Enthrall your people with HIM, not your cleverness, not your personality, not even and especially with your education.
Show them Jesus. Show them Jesus with your words, with your life, with your passion, with all that is within you. Show them Jesus.
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