Heralds gotta herald. Herald is defined by the dictionary as:
noun
1. an official messenger bringing news.2. a person or thing viewed as a sign that something is about to happen.
verb
be a sign that (something) is about to happen.
We are messengers. Our words are the sign of what God is about to do based on what we declare He has already done.
This week, let's talk about CONTENT again: what words to say when
1 CORINTHIANS 4:6
I have applied all these things to myself and Apollos for your benefit, brothers, that you may learn by us not to go beyond what is written
There is wisdom in not wandering beyond the fences God provides for us in His Word. No one should go beyond God's wisdom - not followers or leaders, not congregants or pastors, sheep or shepherds. Paul and Apollos were not given a hall pass to go outside God's Word. The source of their strength and wisdom and knowledge was not found in a different place. They put their trust in the Word of God and on it they relied. They oriented their thoughts around God's thought, their practices around God's commands and their livelihood around the Author of life and His writings.
As you prepare for your next message, do not only study the text you are preparing to preach. Continue to read the REST of Scripture. If the principles and big ideas you are wanting to focus on in your assigned text are really principles and big ideas, they will show up elsewhere in Scripture. Principles permeate everything. They are foundations on which other things are built. As such, if what you propose to make a big idea in a text is nowhere found in the rest of Scripture, you may not be focusing on something that is truly a BIG idea, and more just an interesting idea or possible idea.
There is wisdom in not wandering beyond the fences God provides for us in His Word. No one should go beyond God's wisdom - not followers or leaders, not congregants or pastors, sheep or shepherds. Paul and Apollos were not given a hall pass to go outside God's Word. The source of their strength and wisdom and knowledge was not found in a different place. They put their trust in the Word of God and on it they relied. They oriented their thoughts around God's thought, their practices around God's commands and their livelihood around the Author of life and His writings.
As you prepare for your next message, do not only study the text you are preparing to preach. Continue to read the REST of Scripture. If the principles and big ideas you are wanting to focus on in your assigned text are really principles and big ideas, they will show up elsewhere in Scripture. Principles permeate everything. They are foundations on which other things are built. As such, if what you propose to make a big idea in a text is nowhere found in the rest of Scripture, you may not be focusing on something that is truly a BIG idea, and more just an interesting idea or possible idea.
Until next time, stay hungry my friends. God's Word is food and we need it daily.
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