The mandate of exposing the Holy Spirit’s intended meaning—accompanied by His supernatural power—makes expository preaching a sacred obligation, not a sermonic option. It is a stewardship preachers have been given by virtue of the fact that God has spoken. V. L. Stanfield described preaching as “giving the Bible a voice.”21 He concurred with John Broadus’s simple and accurate definition of preaching as “letting God speak out of his Word.”22 In other words, the Bible is the Spirit-inspired record
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