The Old testament mentions several prominent preachers. Noah, who warned of the impending flood and proclaimed God's ark of safety, was called a "preacher of righteousness". - 2Pet. 2:5 - Solomon described himself as a preacher who taught "words of truth". - Eccl. 1:2; 12:9-10 - At God's direction, Jonah made a preaching mission to Nineveh, declaring God's judgment and mercy. - Jonah 3:2 - Like Jonah, all the true prophets of the Old Testament were regarded as preachers, example Isaiah, Jeremiah, Amos, Micah and others.
The New Testament, the gospel advanced on the wings of preaching. John the Baptist called for repentance in preparation for the Messiah's appearance.
I baptise you in water for repentance, but the one who follows me is more powerful than I am, and I am not fit to carry his sandals; he will baptise you with the Holy Spirit and fire. His winnowing fan is in his hand; he will clear his threshing and gather his wheat into the barn; but the chaff he will burn in a fire that will never go out. - Matt. 3:11-12 -
Jesus was under the divine order to spread the Good News by means of preaching and proclaiming.
'I must proclaim the Good News of the kingdom of God to the other towns too, because that is what I was sent to do', And he continued his preaching in the synagogues of Judaea. - Luke 4:42-43 -
In sending out the Twelve, Jesus commanded them. And as you go proclaim that the kingdom of heaven is close at hand. - Matt. 10:7 -
The apostle Paul declared his credentials as one whom God 'appointed a herald, preacher, apostle and teacher.
For there is only one God, and there is only one mediator between God and mankind, himself a man, Christ Jesus, who sacrificed himself as a ransom for them all. He is the evidence of this, sent at the appointed time and I have been named a herald and apostle of it and - I am telling the truth and no lie - a teacher of the faith and the truth to the pagans. - 1Tim. 2:5-7 -
Virtually all New Testament preaching carries an evangelistic thrust.
For Christ did not send me to baptise, but to preach the Good News and not to preach that in the terms of philosophy in which the crucifixion of Christ cannot be expressed. The language of the cross may be illogical to those who are not on the way to salvation, but those of us who are on the way see it as God's power to save. As scripture says: I shall destroy the wisdom of the wise and bring to nothing all the learning of the learned. Where are the philosophers now? Where are the scribes? Where are any of our thinkers today?
Do you see now how God has shown up the foolishness of human wisdom? If it was God's wisdom that human wisdom should not know God, it was because God wanted to save those who have faith through the foolishness of the message that we preach. And so, while the Jews demand miracles and the Greeks look for wisdom, there are we preaching a crucified Christ; to the Jews an obstacle that they cannot get over, to the pagans madness, but to those have been called, whether they are Jews or Greeks, a Christ who is the power and the wisdom of God. For God's foolishness is wiser than human wisdom and God's weakness is stronger than human strength. - 1Cor. 17-25 -
The redemptive mission of Christ as fulfillment of prophecy of His death and resurrection was the main theme of apostolic preaching.
If there is no resurrection of the dead, Christ himself cannot have been raised and if Christ has not been raised then our preaching is useless and your believing it is useless; indeed, we are shown up as witnesses who have committed perjury before God, because we swore in evidence before God that he had raised Christ to life. - 1Cor. 15:13-15 -
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Sunday, May 24, 2009
I have through years of reading, pondering, reflecting and contemplating, the 3 things that last; FAITH . HOPE . LOVE and I would like to made available my sharing from the many thinkers, authors, scholars and theologians whose ideas and thoughts I have borrowed. God be with them always. Amen!
I STILL HAVE MANY THINGS TO SAY TO YOU BUT THEY WOULD BE TOO MUCH FOR YOU NOW. BUT WHEN THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH COMES, HE WILL LEAD YOU TO THE COMPLETE TRUTH, SINCE HE WILL NOT BE SPEAKING AS FROM HIMSELF, BUT WILL SAY ONLY WHAT HE HAS LEARNT; AND HE WILL TELL YOU OF THE THINGS TO COME.
HE WILL GLORIFY ME, SINCE ALL HE TELLS YOU WILL BE TAKEN FROM WHAT IS MINE. EVERYTHING THE FATHER HAS IS MINE; THAT IS WHY I SAID: ALL HE TELLS YOU WILL BE TAKEN FROM WHAT IS MINE. - JOHN 16:12-15 -
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