Grasping God's Word

The greatest danger you will face is that you will focus too narrowly or too quickly on certain features of the text and, by neglecting surrounding details, will misinterpret the whole.

Macro and Micro Messages The process of interpreting the redemptive truth evident throughout biblical history is known as the redemptive-historical method. This is a vital and foundational tool that expositors need to accurately and gracefully interpret texts in their full context.

A Procedure for Christ-Centered Exposition I. Identify the redemptive principles evident in the text. A. Reveal aspects of the divine nature, which provides redemption. B. Reveal aspects of human nature, which requires redemption. II. Determine what application these redemptive principles were to have in the lives of the original hearers/readers of

It has everything to do with understanding human renewal as the beginning, the pointer toward, and even the means of, God’s eventual eradication of evil from the world and the bringing to birth of the new creation itself. Thus, so the early Christians believed, God’s word was at work by the Spirit within the community, to put Jesus’s achievement in

as we move through the sections of Isaiah 55, my aim is to let its powerful words point us to basic truths about God’s Word that must shape all our lives and ministries, as followers of Jesus Christ.

Assenting to the redemptive focus of all Scripture is often far easier than disclosing it. How one gets redemptive truth out of a text and into a sermon can stretch both exegetical and preaching skills.