The Meat of the Message, Textual, Part 1
HOMILETICS
LECTURE 17
THE MEAT OF THE MESSAGE, TEXTUAL, PART 1
1. Tool Box
Pv 1:10 My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not.
2. Divide and Support
1 Tim 5:14 I will therefore that the younger women marry, bear children, guide the house, give none occasion to the adversary to speak reproachfully.
1. Divide the Passage: Marry; Bear; Guide;
2. Scriptural Support: A. Marry
Titus 2:4 …teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands…
Titus 2:5 To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own
husbands…
B. Bear
Gen 1:22 …Be fruitful and multiply…
Titus 2:4 That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to
love their children,
C. Guide
Prov 14:1 Every wise woman buildeth her house: but the foolish plucketh it down with her hands.
Titus 2:5 To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home…
Prov 31:27 She looketh well to the ways of her household…
3. Exposition: A. Marry
1Ti 5:14 – younger women (specifically widows); good for them to stay out of trouble
Titus 2:4 – are to be taught this; their focus is to love their husbands
Titus 2:5 – they need male authority in their lives; obedient to that; God’s design
B. Bear
1Ti 5:14 – plural form; bearing children is a key function of a married woman
Gen 1:22 – main design and purpose; children are the Lord’s reward; multiply means a lot
Titus 2:4 – show lots of love to them; raise them right
C. Guide
1Ti 5:14 – the home, house, household, is her domain; she is to guide it vice rule it
Pr 14:1 – build it up; make it healthy, loving environment
Titus 2:5 – homemakers, homekeepers, zookeepers
Pr 31:27 – focused, concerned, overseeing
4. Further Explanation, etc.
3. Divide and Subdivide
2 Tim 2:2 And the things that thou hast heard of me among many witnesses, the same commit thou to faithful men, who shall be able to teach others also.
******Divide verse into 3 or 4 parts; and then divide up each part into 2-4; and comment on each******
a) And the things that thou hast heard of me among many witnesses,
b) the same commit thou to faithful men,
c) who shall be able to teach others also.
4. Verse by verse commentary
Eph 2:19-22
19 Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints,
and of the household of God;
20 And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone;
21 In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord:
22 In whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit.
Each verse can be a separate point of the sermon; follow a standard free-flowing commentary for each ‘point’. Have a application and preaching point at the end of each main point (verse).
A. (v. 19) - Paul is speaking to the church at Ephesus (Ye), thus true churches today. We church members are unique people. We are citizens of Heaven; this world is not our home. And, we church members are of the family of God, which all saved people are also. But, all the saved are not part of one of the Lord’s churches. God uses only those in His family (adopted sons), and of His country (Heaven) to build His holy temple.
*We church members have a close kinship: the only ones used to build are truly born again saints of God that are knit together by the
Spirit of unity.
B. (v.20) - [20] God uses His saints/children to be used to build an holy temple of the Lord. It must be based on the chief corner stone that was placed for the church, and all subsequent churches, by Jesus Christ, the Head, at the time of Matthew 16:18. After Christ left, the apostles and prophets laid the foundation for each church; they had to come from the authority of that first church wherein lies the chief cornerstone (see 1Co 3). Later, apostles and prophesyers were gone and evangelists and pastor/teachers took over the work of this.
*Your growth has to be based on the right foundation: a fundamental-type Baptist church.
C. (v. 21) - “Ye are God’s building” (1Co 3:9); a spiritual building; each local fundamental Baptist church. A stick built building has ‘framers’ that put it all together with all the pieces fitted right. God uses pastors as types of ‘framers’ for His buildings. A church is suppose to be ‘growing’, on a continual basis: what grows is both quantity and quality; both the whole and the parts. It is a dynamic interrelationship between the whole body and the individual members.
*What a priviledge to be considered worthy to be used to build this most awesome structure!
D. (v. 22) - Each church is ‘also’ builded together for this reason: as said in the previous note, each church body is a special habitation structure for the blessed Holy Spirit of God, just like in the Old Testament. The Spirit indwells every believer at salvation, but there is a special corporate indwelling of the body of Christ also.
*You each are used to build the Temple of God (each Church) where the Holy Spirit resides in a supernatural way.