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Voddie Baucham - What is Biblical Preaching · Voddie Baucham Sermons

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  Speaker 1: To exposit simply means to take out of. We come
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  Speaker 1: to a passage of Scripture and we take out of
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  Speaker 1: it what it is there and present it first of
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  Speaker 1: all to ourselves and then to you.
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  Speaker 2: So in the simplest.
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  Speaker 1: And most basic terms, that's what it means to do exposition.
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  Speaker 1: Systematic exposition is a bit differently. Expository preaching is merely
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  Speaker 1: taking a passage of Scripture in its context and preaching
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  Speaker 1: that passage of Scripture in its context, as opposed to
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  Speaker 1: something topical where we would take multiple verses or portions
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  Speaker 1: of scripture and put them together in order to make
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  Speaker 1: a comment about a certain subject or topic, thus the
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  Speaker 1: name topical preaching.
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  Speaker 2: Now, we don't argue that it's never appropriate to do
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  Speaker 2: topical preaching.
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  Speaker 1: For example, if we were doing a doctrinal study, if
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  Speaker 1: we were, instead of going through the life of Abraham
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  Speaker 1: or going through the Sermon on the Mount, if instead
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  Speaker 1: we were looking at the doctrine of Christ, And let's
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  Speaker 1: say we were to preach a series of messages on
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  Speaker 1: the doctrine of Christ. Then we would be topical because
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  Speaker 1: we would take all of the key passages and key
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  Speaker 1: verses that teach us about the doctrine of Christ and
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  Speaker 1: build those together in our messages. And there may be
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  Speaker 1: times when we do that and that is completely appropriate. However,
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  Speaker 1: there's a difference between a topical series that is doctrinal
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  Speaker 1: in nature and a topical series that is felt needs
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  Speaker 1: and man-centered in nature, which is what we object to.
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  Speaker 1: And so you may hear topical message on the doctrine
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  Speaker 1: of Christ or the doctrine of the church, but you
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  Speaker 1: won't hear topical messages on six ways to have a
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  Speaker 1: happy life and five ways to reduce stress and so
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  Speaker 1: on and so forth ad nauseum ad infinitum, okay?
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  Speaker 2: So there's a difference.
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  Speaker 1: What we practice here is systematic exposition. And what that
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  Speaker 1: means is we do expository preaching, but we do it
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  Speaker 1: systematically through portions of Scripture. For example, we went through
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  Speaker 1: Genesis 1 through 11. That was a portion of Scripture
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  Speaker 1: that we taught through systematically. Now, before we did Genesis
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  Speaker 1: 1 through 11, we did the Gospel of Mark. Before
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  Speaker 1: we did the Gospel of Mark, we did Ephesians, okay?
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  Speaker 1: And so systematically, we were preaching through the Scriptures. What
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  Speaker 1: you'll notice there is that there's a pattern. We started
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  Speaker 1: with an epistle. Then we went to a gospel. Then
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  Speaker 1: we went to the law.
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  Speaker 2: Old Testament.
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  Speaker 1: So we went New Testament, New Testament, then Old Testament,
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  Speaker 1: went to law. Then we came back and we went
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  Speaker 1: through John, or went through Mark and Epistle, came back
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  Speaker 1: to the Old Testament. Then we went through 1 John
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  Speaker 1: and Epistle, came back to the Old Testament. There's a
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  Speaker 1: pattern there. There's an intentional pattern there. We believe that
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  Speaker 1: God has called and commanded us to teach the whole
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  Speaker 1: counsel of God. We have to preach the Old Testament.
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  Speaker 1: We have to preach the New Testament. Not only that,
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  Speaker 1: but in the New Testament, we can't just preach the
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  Speaker 1: epistles Because that's just, that's cherry picking for preachers. That's
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  Speaker 1: the easiest preaching there is in the whole Bible, especially
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  Speaker 1: the Pauline epistles. Paul just, he's a preacher and the
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  Speaker 1: stuff that he writes is just preachable. You can go
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  Speaker 1: to a passage in Pauline scripture and it just falls
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  Speaker 1: into three or four points.
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  Speaker 2: They're just right there, you know, and you just walk
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  Speaker 2: through that. It's cherry picking.
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  Speaker 1: That's the easiest exposition you'll ever do is preaching Pauline epistles.
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  Speaker 2: All right. And that's fine.
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  Speaker 1: There's nothing wrong with that. But you can get real
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  Speaker 1: lazy preaching through Pauline epistles all the time. The other
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  Speaker 1: thing is, we need the Old Testament as much as
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  Speaker 1: we need the New Testament because we know that Jesus
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  Speaker 1: himself said that the entire Bible is about him. So
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  Speaker 1: we have to preach Christ from all of Scripture. And
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  Speaker 1: that's what we've been attempting to do, is preach Christ
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  Speaker 1: from all of Scripture. So as we looked at the
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  Speaker 1: life of Abraham, it wasn't just, here's five things Abraham did,
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  Speaker 1: therefore you go and do them so that you can
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  Speaker 1: be more like Abraham. It is, how do we see
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  Speaker 1: Christ in the life of Abraham? So systematic exposition is
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  Speaker 1: about a balanced diet. By the way, you may not
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  Speaker 1: know this, but we use the same approach for our
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  Speaker 1: scripture reading in the mornings. So we don't just read
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  Speaker 1: New Testament and then Old Testament, but as we read through,
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  Speaker 1: we're about to finish Revelation. And before we read through Revelation,
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  Speaker 1: I believe we did John. So we did a gospel.
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  Speaker 1: Now we did a Pauline epistle. I believe we've read through,
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  Speaker 1: did I say Revelation?
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  Speaker 2: I meant Romans. Romans.
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  Speaker 1: We read through Romans. So we did a gospel. We
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  Speaker 1: did an epistle. Before that, we had done Revelation, I believe.
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  Speaker 1: You know, so now we're probably going to, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: we've read through Acts as well. So we'll probably go
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  Speaker 1: read through another gospel at this time or something. But
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  Speaker 1: the whole idea is a balanced diet for us to
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  Speaker 1: hear the Word of God. When it comes to the
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  Speaker 1: Old Testament, we're in Jeremiah. We'll be in Jeremiah for
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  Speaker 1: a while. Reading a chapter a week, it takes almost
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  Speaker 1: a year to read through Jeremiah, okay? So it would
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  Speaker 1: be a whole year reading through Jeremiah. Well, after we've
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  Speaker 1: read through Jeremiah, we've read through one of the prophets,
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  Speaker 1: we've also read through one of the books of the law,
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  Speaker 1: we'll probably go to some wisdom literature, and we'll preach
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  Speaker 1: through some wisdom literature, okay?
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  Speaker 2: So maybe we'll go Proverbs or Psalms or something of
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  Speaker 2: that nature. Song of Solomon. No, not with the little
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  Speaker 2: ones in here. We may read Song of Solomon with, yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: never mind. All right, and so, again... a balanced diet
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  Speaker 2: of the Word of God.
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  Speaker 1: So you see that more readily as we read through
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  Speaker 1: these books in our New Testament reading and Old Testament reading,
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  Speaker 1: because we do that a lot faster than we preach
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  Speaker 1: through these books. But so now we've been through the
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  Speaker 1: life of Abraham, after having gone through 1 John, after
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  Speaker 1: having gone through Genesis 1 through 11, after having gone
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  Speaker 1: through Mark, after having gone through Ephesians, we're going to
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  Speaker 1: come back and we're going to pick up with Isaac.
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  Speaker 1: And we're going to go through Isaac's life after we've
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  Speaker 1: done the Sermon on the Mount, which gets us back
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  Speaker 1: into gospel again. And we'll go back and we'll do
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  Speaker 1: Isaac's life and then we'll come back and we'll probably do,
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  Speaker 1: I believe it's the book of Acts we talked about
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  Speaker 1: or something we talked about. But again, we talk about
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  Speaker 1: our preaching schedule years in advance because it takes years
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  Speaker 1: for us.
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  Speaker 2: To do all of these things and to do them well.
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  Speaker 2: So that's why we're doing what we're doing.
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  Speaker 1: That's why we're in this book and we're going to
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  Speaker 1: go back to another book and we have Old Testament,
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  Speaker 1: we have New Testament. The whole idea is to give
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  Speaker 1: a balanced diet and to demonstrate the fact that Christ
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  Speaker 1: is present in all of Scripture.