Expository sermon outlines usually expose the structure of the text in order to transmit its message. The structure of a psalm may indicate its major divisions into stanzas, which may become the major points in a sermon outline. The structure of the psalm may also reveal repetition of words, phrases, or sentences and parallelisms that may find their place in a sermon outline. But Duane Garrett rightly cautions that “using the structure of the psalm as the outline of the
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