I don’t mind doing
topical messages [on occasion, when asked], but that is not the way God
intended his word to be studied. In the nation of Israel, every seven years, they would teach the law by
reading through the books of Moses and give the sense of the passages.
Nehemiah 8:8
So they read in the
book in the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense, and caused them to
understand the reading.
So, the role of the
teacher and preacher is to go through the scripture verse-by-verse. That way you can’t skip anything.
I remember going to a black, full-gospel, Baptist
church and in their Sunday School, they didn’t really go [teach] through the
bible. Rather, they had a little book, like a quarterly used by all the churches in that denomination and would be teaching that
same lesson that week. I can remember
them trying to go through the book of Ephesians. They broke down by Ephesians 1, Ephesians 2,
Ephesians 4, 5 and 6. I found it
interesting that when it came of Ephesians 3 they just skipped it. Why would they skip that? Well, if you know anything about Ephesians 3,
that chapter speaks about the mystery of Christ. And, because they didn’t rightly divide the
word of truth, they had no clue what that passage was about so they just skipped
it! If they don’t understand it, then
why even deal with it? That is how topical preaching is in religious
denominations.
But, we are to
preach verse by verse. It may take
longer, but that way you can’t avoid anything, [i.e., skip over difficult
passages as if they don’t exist].
Transcribed excerpt
from a grace message, “52
Eternal-Vs-Everlasting, Part 2” from Bro Ron Knight’s studies in “Survey of the
book of Acts”
Hopefully this helps!
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