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Set a Study Schedule To maximize your time, you must know yourself and discern when you are most effective in your study.
what part of the week you are most productive.
To Whom Will You Be Preaching? Are you preaching to a church congregation?
What Is Burning in Your Heart? Ultimately, you will want to preach what is burning in your own heart.
First, preaching verse by verse through books in the Bible addresses Scripture the way God gave it to
Second, consecutive exposition best ensures that you address the full counsel of God.
By preaching the entire book, no doctrine will be avoided. No hard saying will be skipped. No sin will fail to be confronted. Subjects you may have otherwise bypassed will now be taught.
Third, verse-by-verse exposition best models for your listeners how to study the Bible. This approach shows the importance of the...
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Fourth, book exposition maximizes your time.
Fifth, preaching through books in the Bible promotes pastoral longevity.
Sixth, sequential exposition ensures balance in your preaching.
Representative Exposition For large books, a better approach might be to preach only a sampling of isolated verses.
Isaiah,
Messianic prophecies (chapters 6–7, 11, 40, 42, 49, 50, 52–53, 61, 63, and 66).
passage and show how it contributes
John 3:1–11, and cite cross-references from the entire Bible.
Likewise, you would show how the truth of the new birth relates to other doctrines in the Bible.
Determine the Literary Unit
In a psalm, the literary unit is the stanza.
Determine the Context
Ask the Diagnostic Questions
Identify the Important Words
Parse the Key Verbs
What is its tense, mood, and voice?
Analyze the Grammatical Structure
Trace the Transitional Flow
Isolate the Central Idea What is the central idea of the passage?
Draft an Initial Outline
Assume the Literal Approach
Specify the Literary Genre
Probe the Linguistic Meaning
If you are not yet familiar with the original biblical languages, a good interlinear translation
Conduct Word Studies
Your word study should always be combined with syntactical and contextual observation.
Research the Historical Background You must also study the historical background and transport yourself back to the ancient world of the Bible to grasp the meaning of the passage.
Grasp the Geographical Setting Understanding the geography of the ancient Near East can be necessary in unlocking the meaning of a passage.
A Bible atlas
Find the Book Theme
Learn the Literary Devices
differentiating between diagnostic and rhetorical questions.
metaphor, hyperbole, personification, anthropomorphism,
Connect the Cross-References
One part of the Bible never teaches anything contrary to another part.
No contradictions
Determine the Authorial Intent Lastly, you should always seek the biblical author’s intended meaning.
The Consultation Stage After doing your own study,
checking your findings against the work of trusted scholars.
Check Study Bibles
Read Bible Commentaries
Reference Systematic Theologies
(Isa. 55:10–11)
The consistent fruit of God’s Word
