Jul 16
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Only Scriptural preaching is good preaching
I heard of a preacher who very eloquently said that at the conversion of a sinner an angel of God picks up a heavenly quill and flies from God’s throne to that fountain filled with Christ’s blood, dips his quill into the blood of that fountain and then flies to the Lamb’s Book of Life and inscribes therein the name of the newly converted sinner. A hearer objected, reminding the preacher that, according to the Scriptures, the names in the Lamb’s Book of Life were inscribed therein before the foundation of the world, thereby declaring the preacher’s illustration to be unscriptural. The preacher replied, “The illustration may be unscriptural, but it surely is good preaching!”
Unscriptural preaching is never good preaching. God means it when He says, “To the law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, it is because there is no light in them” (Isaiah 8:20). Only Scriptural preaching is good preaching! Scriptural preaching declares “Thus says the LORD” (e.g., Jeremiah 9:23f) and “It is written” (e.g., Matthew 4:4, 7,10), not “Thus imagines man” and “It should have been written.” Good preaching is “according to the Scriptures” (1 Corinthians 15:3, 4), not “according to man”. And it will stand the test of all who “searched the Scriptures daily to find out whether these things were so” (Acts 17:11). Daniel Parks.