The Delivery of Expository Messages

Perhaps the best advice offered is on putting fire into the sermon (163) by directly addressing a need. Robinson quotes Leslie J. Tizard, "Whoever will become a preacher must feel the needs of men until it becomes an obsession of his soul." With all the mechanisms for outlining and writing an expository message, one will still fail at delivering an exposition of Scripture unless one uses it to meet a need. Mahatma Ghandi once stated that a loving God wouldn't appear to a starving man as anything but food. People all have needs, and unless that particular need is met the person will not listen. In fact, if the preacher does not have a burden for the spiritual needs of others, he may as well find a different line of work, because his preaching will be a waste of time. As Paul said:

Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become [as] sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. And though I have [the gift of] prophecy, and understand all myst

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as flesh makes the bones alive. He cautions the preacher to distinguish between fact and opinion in choosing and presenting the supporting material (141), and to carefully select quotations(143). Robinson then shows the preacher how to illustrate the message with examples that make it entertaining. Robinson's point in presenting a method of composing and constructing expository messages is that making a message from God's word entertaining is not sinful, but necessary. What is sinful, he cautions, is to leave God's word out of the message in favor of the entertainment. He makes clear which should have priority and which should serve the Master. Lu 1:6779 And his father Zacharias was filled with the Holy Ghost, and prophesied, saying, Blessed [be] the Lord God of Israel; for he hath visited and redeemed his people, and hath raised up an horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David; As he spake by the mouth of his holy prophets, which have been since the world began: That we should be saved from our enemies, and from the hand of all that hate us; To perform the mercy [promised] to our fathers, and to remember his holy covenant; The oath which he sware to our father Abraham, That he would grant unto us, th
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