So I prophesied as I was commanded. And as I prophesied, there was a sound, and behold, a rattling, and the bones came together, bone to its bone.
Preaching begins with God.
He calls on men and calls them to cry out to others.
Preaching is preaching God's message.
He provides the prophesies He commands.
Preaching assumes the audience is dead.
Bones are about as dead as a person can get.
Preaching, therefore, acknowledges the impossibility of the task.
Preachers must not presume that wisdom and winsomeness alone can do anything for bones.
Preaching should rattle.
Preachers must speak in faith believing that God can use preaching to raise the dead.
Preaching does not settle for just any rattling.
Rearranging bones does not bring them to life. Archaeological digs fill museums, preachers fill churches.
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