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III. Advantages of Full-Counsel Preaching

A. You are honoring God’s Word.

God said what He wanted to say, nothing more and nothing less. Our job as preachers is to do
the same.

B. You avoid preaching your own ideas.

Thus, expository preaching endeavors to discover and convey the precise meaning of the
Word. Scripture rules over what the expositors preach because they unfold what it says.
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The meaning of the passage is the message of the sermon.

C. You are enabling your people to understand God’s Word.

D. You are preaching all of God’s Word to your people.

1. You preach the hard texts.

2. You avoid preaching only your favorite subjects.

E. You preach doctrine in the context in which it was given.

F. You will never lack preaching material.

Expository preaching agrees with the examples found in the Scriptures, finds its authority in God, and
proves to be very advantageous. Of all the different types of sermons, those that are expository in
nature do the most justice to God’s Word.

2.4 Let’s Practice…

1. Give a least two examples in the Bible where a Biblical character expounded an Old
Testament passage in order to teach others.

2. When preaching, from whom does your authority come?

3 – 6. List at least four of the six advantages of full-counsel preaching:

7. True or False One of the problems expository preaching attempts to overcome is that quite
often, preachers will share their own ideas about a topic rather than God’s.

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