MSA Preaching Clinic
by Bobby Killmon
December 19, 2019 · Indiana Bible College, Indianapolis, Indiana
Kind: conference session
Scripture: Psalm 1:1, Psalm 66:18, Hebrews 6:4-6, Philippians 2:5-11, Amos 3:3, Amos 3:1-2, Psalm 22:1

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Thank you, sir. Well, hello everybody. You guys doing good? All right. Well, this is probably one of the funnest things for me to do is a preaching like a nuts and bolts kind of deal because I wish somebody had done this for me earlier because it really like I was in ministry. I have evangelized for six months, youth pastor a year and a half, and then I came to IBC, which is really backwards. There was a lot of gracious churches. Brother, no, it would have been better if I had done it the other way, but I did not. So they had to suffer through a lot of my struggles better to struggle in the classroom and learn some stuff and struggle in the pulpit. I always tease Brother Pettigo. If I remember right, I think this is absolutely true. Forgive me if I get a little bit wrong, but I believe the first time he ever preached was in Calvary Tabernacle's pulpit.

How would you like that one? I got a word from the Lord. May nay. Give me some training wheels or something. All right. So what I want to do tonight is I'm not going to talk about like, I expect that you're praying. I expect that you're dedicating. I expect that you've heard from the Lord. But after that, communicating clearly, just figuring out ways to lay out sermons and ways to deal with the thoughts that God presses on your heart. It's probably the hardest part of sermonizing because there is a craft and art to the side of it. Some people do it well. They don't use a note. And that's because they internalize everything and the notes are in their head. And some people have a manuscript and they read everything. And some people read really well. I'm somewhere in the middle of that. And I think there is a problem with reading the manuscript, but we'll talk about some of that.

So what I want to do is just talk about kind of the nuts and bolts. What we mean is God has chosen the foolishness of preaching. How many of you believe that? To save. He's chosen it. So if he's chosen it, you really do have to respect the dynamic of preaching. Because God has chosen to use human voices in all of our frailty. Brother McGrath, when we get up and like we prayed and fasted for three days and then we get up and we're like a fire hose spraying everywhere. Saying a bunch of stuff that's not even connected or cohesive. And then we wonder like, nobody responded. We didn't understand you. So how do you communicate truth? That's what I want to do tonight. And it is going to be just a basic plain introductory level nuts and bolts ways to do sermon. So let me start out with like kind of the structure of the sermon.

The first part of the sermon is very simple. It's the content of the sermon. And we're going to talk about then the form and the movement of a sermon. Because that's a big piece that if you work it out intentionally, it works for you really, really well. We'll talk about that in just a moment. And then thirdly, we're going to talk about delivery. So man, if we had time, I just don't think we're going to have time, Brother Cole. I was going to bring in and show you like different ways to take notes and bring notes to the pulpit with you. Maybe we'll do that another time or something like that. So again, those are the three things we're going to discuss. I don't know why I repeated that there. Forgive me. So let's talk about exegetical preaching. What is exegetical versus isegetical preaching? So verse by verse, yeah.

Exegetical is verse by verse. And what does it mean that it's exegetical other than verse by verse? Because that's right. Who said it? Yeah, drawing out the word ice means to draw the meaning out of the text as opposed to reading your meaning into the text. So here's what I would say first of all, whenever you get up to preach, I think you should preach God's ideas. They're more powerful. Anybody think your ideas are more powerful than God's? Okay, good. So probably you should preach the text. And that's what that means as a preacher. So let me give you four little things that you can do to study, to get into the text. What does the text say? I think first of all you get into what's called observation, that. What is the text saying? What is it communicating? Right? And this is like as you study my pastor, Brother Mooney, he says that a lot of the sermons that he has gotten out is out of a devotional way that he engages with the Bible as well.

He's looking, Brother McGrath, at what does the Bible say? And then he has this peace in his prayer life, which is to pray the word. And it means to say, like you're dealing with Psalm one, blessed is the man that walketh not in the council of the ungodly. And he'll stop there and say, God, help me not to walk in any council that is ungodly. Help me to be conscious of people that would try to give me counsel that would be against your will. And he said, then he just kind of walks through the text and he said out of that he's got incredible sermons that have been murdered in his spirit. But they were his first. Okay, so what does the text say? The second part of that is the interpretation. Now remember, Joel, you might know this or remember this phrase? Your interpretation of the text is no better than your observation of the text.

Okay, so what that means is you've got to look at what does the scripture say and then then you can move and only then do you move to what does the scripture mean? Because as you observe, what is it saying, then you can get to what it means and you can't shortcut the process. You've got to slow down and read slow. So you see what it's actually saying and not what you think it's saying. Okay, you can't rush. And then third is correlation. This is what we call a sister Kayla systematic theology. How do I correlate or bring together all of the voices scripture on a subject? Okay, so that means like when the Bible says Jesus says, ask what you will if you ask anything in my name, it shall be done. How many of you need a million dollars? Then you just ask what you will.

And it shall be done if you have enough faith when you pray. And you can take that one voice of scripture out of Matthew where Jesus is talking about their prayer. And by the way, he does list caveats in the rest of the context. And then Isaiah 68 says that you can, if I regard iniquity in my heart, I won't hear my prayers. Ooh, that's a tough one because if I'm, you know, James says if I pray in desire to consume things upon my own lust, that's a problem. So I have to hear all of the voice of scripture about prayer so that I get it right. So correlate the Bible. What does the scripture say elsewhere? And then fourthly, you get to application. Most of us want to go from observation to application. That's where most sermons go wrong. Okay, don't skip the steps.

Okay, so application is then what does scripture mean to me personally? And I've been throwing this little phrase around. I wish I could give credit to who I heard it, but it's beautiful the way that they praised it. They said, you will not be saved by what you know. You'll be saved by what you do because you are not what you say. I'm apostolic. You are what you do. How do you live? Okay, all right. And that's where application. Once you get into this process, I promise you that as you study scripture, Bill Davis said this at IBC when he was preaching or doing a Q &A after preaching one night here in Indiana Bible College when I was a student. Brother Herbs, he said, I don't study the scripture to get sermons. He said, I study scripture to learn about God and I preach out of the overflow of that.

And so what that means is something like this is as you do this and you apply this type of study to your personal life, there will be many sermons birded out of this process because when you get the, when you look at it, what does it say? You get the interpretation and then you correlate it with the rest of the voice of scripture and you say, God, what does this say to me? And you start to apply it to your life. Then you can turn around and say, how does this same truth from scripture apply to the congregation I'm preaching and teaching to? Okay, got it? How many of you see that's just a very, very simple way to do that? Now we could talk about each one of these for an hour, right? And do some very, very profitable work. But I'll lead that to you to study on your own.

All right, so let's talk about ways to understand the scripture then. The historical context. Now I have to do this fast. What does somebody grab? Who grabbed Hebrews chapter six verse four? Who grabbed that one? Thank you, ma'am, sister warrior. Who grabbed Philippians two, five, three, eleven? Thank you, brother Quincy. Who grabbed Amos three in three? Thank you very much, sister Kayla. And who grabbed Psalm 221? Thanks, brother Blake. And then, oh yes, and that's what we're going to get to. Now here are some questions that you ask as you're reading a scripture, you're observing it, you're right? You're getting into it for the lost in a thick way. Not what is the just simple reading, but how do I study that? How do I observe what comes before in those types of things? So let's look at Hebrews six four. What does it say?

Who's got it? I forgot. Yes ma'am, sister warrior. It is impossible for those who were once in my end and have tasted the heavenly gift and were made partakers of the Holy Lord. Yes, read a little bit more. And have tasted the good word of God and the power of the world to come. Yeah, keep reading. I'm sorry. They shall fall away to renew them again and to repentance. Seeing they crucify to themselves, the Son of God, a fresh and put into an open chain. What does it mean that is it? It's impossible to renew them. What is the author of Hebrews mean? I believe it's Paul. When he says there is a place where you can get where God can no longer save you. This is not a rhetorical question. I apologize. Yeah. Yes. So let's do this just for the sake of time.

Whatever you say about that verse, you have to make sure that you understand the context of excuse me who Paul is talking to and what is the flow of the passage. Right? Because if you try to apply that to a congregation without that context, you're going to get in trouble. Okay, because people are going to think I can't be saved. Right? How many of you have ever bumped into somebody and they were like, I've blasphemed. And they're down crying in an altar. Brother Ricky in there, I've blasphemed. No, no. If you're down crying in an altar, you haven't blasphemed because if you had truly blasphemed, you would not seek the Lord. You would agree with those what he's saying is you, if you agree with the, you Jewish people, you Hebrew people, if you agree with the people that crucified Jesus and you crucify him afresh

by saying, we're going back to Judaism and rejecting Christianity, there's no way to be saved from there because you've rejected the door. Right? That's how you get into the historical context a little bit. Right? What about Philippians two, five through 11? Yeah, brother Quincy? That's enough right there. What does it mean to be in the form of God? I don't know where they're coming. You're their preacher. Yeah, but so are you. And if you get up to preach on that, you've got to realize that that is an early song in the church. It's a hymn. It's a Christological hymn. And everyone, now catch this, every one of those hymns in John one, the prologue of John, we could talk about all the rest of them, about eight of them in the New Testament. Every one of them have to do with Christ, the man. Now, if that's the case,

you have to be careful because what you're saying about that text had better be about Christ, the man, and not trying to make him God. Because it's not about him being God. It's about him being the son of God, the man that would purchase redemption. And then you realize, oh, wow, form of God is the Greek equivalent to image of God. And just like the first Adam failed, the second Adam had to pick up and obey. And that's why Paul says, let this mind be in you. All of you guys fighting for power at Philippi and being selfish, why don't you do like God when he became a man and humbled himself and served? How many of you think that approached? It did. Paul preached it. But you're ready understanding that that genre is about Jesus, the man, is powerful because it informs you, okay,

I can't try to make this passage about Jesus being God. I mean, no Jesus is God. You got to go to the other truths of Scripture, other places of Scripture which show that truth. This is about him being the perfect man submitted. Wherefore God hath highly exalted him. How do you exalt God? Well, you can lift him up in your eyes. But how is, how does God exalt God? It's not about that. It's about the man Jesus being exalted to a position that no man has been before, right? All the way back through Christology. Okay, we can't do this with every one of them. Somebody read Amos 3.3. What does that say? Can two walk together except they be agreed? Yeah. Can two walk together except they be agreed? Notice that me. All right. Back up and read the first two verses. Hear this word

that the Lord has spoken against you. Oh, children of Israel. Oh, okay. So we're talking to the children of Israel. Against the whole family which I brought up from the land of Egypt saying, you only have I known of all the families of the earth. Therefore, I will punish you for all your iniquities. Can two walk together except they be agreed? See, now there's the context. It's about backsliding Israel. And God is saying, this is covenantal language. This isn't like saying to, like, if you want to, if you want to serve, if you want to be saved, come walk with Jesus. The context of that passage is why in the world do you think I'm going to bless you when you're not walking with me? And the context of that will show you we obviously had time to deal with the Hebrew word Rah that comes

into the following verses. Where he says, is there not judgment in the city? Or is there not evil in the city? And have I not performed it? God did something evil? Sister Satan, what does that mean? It means the Hebrew word for evil, it can mean judgment where he allows that to come in as his punishing end. Again, to drive people back to covenant. But I've heard people like use this, well, for all sorts of things, I'll behave. Okay, so I'm 221. Who did I give that one to? Yeah. My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? Now, who said that? David. David? And who quotes it? Jesus. Yeah. And see, you can't even understand. When you say, you ready? How would the first, so again, we're looking at the historical context. That's how we get into Hebrews 6. The literary form or genre

and Philippians 2 shows us what that is. The prior passage is set up a mystery, right? So it informs the way that you can use this text, use the text the way God intends it to be used, right? And then how would the first reader, the Jewish people, hear this song? This quotation of Jesus on the cross and that's where you go, this is about messianic prophecy through this suffering. I will reign. Right? And so one of the last things you can ask about the text is this. What does, what does Scripture want us to think, to feel, and to do? Okay? So all of you thinkers, where you at? Brother Herbs, raise your hand? Me and you, Rev. All right? So thinkers, primarily thinkers, we love to think about the text. That's not enough. What does it want us to think and then to feel?

Where's all my primary fillers? Yes? Okay, just one hand that's going to be honest. I read the rest of your like, but it culminates fillers. I don't have any fillers. You ready? What does it want us to feel? It's not enough to make you think. You've got to strike the emotions. Okay? When we get to it, I'm going to talk about it just for a moment, Brother Cope, if I could stay on track. Most sermons fail. Okay? How plain can I be? Okay. One of the biggest struggles is this. If you've learned to sing before you learn to preach, you're in trouble. Because the amount of emotion that you bring into your singing has to be brought into your sermon. I see people sing their guts out and strike the hearts of people, but they can't preach with the same passion. What? You just think it's

about thinking and ideas? God wants you to feel something. Okay? And you've got to strike the emotions as well as the mind. And all the thinkers said, amen. Right? What do you want us to think, feel, and then the pragmatists, the people who only pay attention when you start the application of your sermon? What does God want us to do? It should always be in a component, a call to action somehow in your sermon. And we'll talk about that. So let me give you some ways, I think some questions that you can kind of get into the application of the sermon. How many of you say, I can see the sermon? I can observe the text? I can get to the interpretation? My struggle is how do I apply it? How many of you say, yeah. Okay, that's okay. All right. So here's some types

of questions that you can ask to get into application. Are there any secrets that the text shows me I'm hiding in my life? You ready? Is there any wrong that I'm embracing? Are there any habits that are forming inside of me that are hurting me? Or you ready? Are there any attitudes that I need to change in light of this truth? And you ready, do you call them to change? You need to change tonight, okay? Are there any motives that the scriptures disclose that I'm denying that I have? Nobody says, yes, yes, I'm pride. I'm right here. We just live it out by thinking we preach better than other people. Or sing better. That kind of thing. And I'm not saying that there aren't levels of talent. I'm just thinking that some of that I can tip into like I'm the only one God can use.

How did Paul write his epistle without my notes? Right? Is there a promise that I'm not embracing? Like a call to faith? Am I not walking in the strength that the Lord guarantees is mine? You know, you could have a great sermon by saying something like this, I'm gonna give the sinners the night off tonight and I'm just gonna preach on the heaven. And you can help people to get their focus right by the lodge and say, I gotta keep the hope of heaven in front of me because I am not living for just this world. Okay, and that'll be a beautiful night. And then you can sneak a little preach on the sinners and say, by the way, if you wanna come in and be with us rejoicing people, come on up to the altar today. And then is there any command that I need to obey?

Some questions like this are ways that you can get into applying the word of God. And when you begin to ask yourself these personally, Brother Hickenbottom and wrestle with them, you can say, I can shift it then outside of Sheldon and say, I'm talking to you tonight or I'm talking to the congregation tonight and what am I gonna say to Calvary Tabernacle? They've been saved long and I've been alive, let alone preaching. I hope you say something from the word of God because that will minister to them. And it'll be powerful way beyond your experience. Preach the truth. Good. So let me give you 11 steps to a simplified outline of sermon preparation for expository preaching. Number one, pray. Pray over what God wants you to say. And that means as you've read the Bible and you pray initially jot down, before you go to all

the commentaries, jot down what strikes you in the spirit. What you feel like it's saying and some images that God gives you, just jot those down. Oh, how many of you are taking notes on that? Okay, what I will do for the Culp if you're okay with it is I'll send this in a PDF form and we'll make it available somewhere wherever the recording ends up. Is that okay? That way you guys don't, you can write down what I'm not got up there and capture that. Okay, all right, good. That way I don't give you writer's cramp and you can actually listen. Okay, good. Step number two, list what you need to know about the passage in order to understand it. If there are words or concepts that are beyond you in the passage or if there's language in the text, how do I understand this?

One of you wonderful students, somebody getting into language just asked me, by the Kiliman I've looked at the language and it's neuter and phatic and it means one and Jesus said I am a father one. What does that mean? I see this on Blue Letter if you want to get into like deep language stuff then maybe you got to find an expert and say this is beyond me. And by the Herbst it's like studying Greek. Pray for him. He just started. Hallelujah. That's going to be a so if you see him looking beleaguered you'll know why. But you ready? If you're outside of your expertise what you should do is say where can I find a resource? What things do I need to understand to get into this passage well and then and then do it. Okay. And second, a third clarify the meaning then of these

keywords, concepts and images. So many passages come to mind. Does anybody know why the prodigal son's father ran out to meet him? Can I just tell you there was a Jewish practice at the time that Jesus was confronting and they expected into that story. It was like Jesus's end was a stinger in the tail because it exposed their heart that they didn't love like God loved. Tell us. No. Go find it. Dig. Dig. That's where you need to like Brother Pettigo's Bible customs and geography. You got to understand what was going on in the text, the practices at the time because some of those things are hidden nuggets that I've never heard any preacher preach at a conference. You could be the first one. And it's not because the truth is not there. It's because we often miss it because of issues in the text

like you know concepts that are indicative to the Bible times. Right. So identify the historical context who is the writer writing to? What are they addressing? You ready? Like how many are in systematic theology? Isaiah. He's writing to three different time periods. You got to figure out who he's addressing. And say what would this word mean that that Isaiah is prophesying in the exile and you got these Babylonian oppressors that are trying to rob you of your faith as you're just trying to live for God in exile and then somebody pops open the book of Isaiah and said I was reading the Bible the other day and did you see the words of Isaiah the prophet? And he said that there was Cyrus my servant. You know there's this Persian king and his name's Cyrus and he's coming in to overcome Babylon. Could this be

that this is the man that God's going to use to bring us back into the land of promise? So you got to get inside the text. Figure out what's being addressed and then how would they read that? The children of Israel in Babylon in exile read Isaiah like we read the book of Revelation. Like we read Thessalonians the hope of the rapture. Like Paul said looking for that blessed appearing. Right now in Paul's day he says I'm looking he could come back today which is powerful right? And getting that type of understanding. Number five then summarize your understanding of it in its historical context. What that means sister Kayla once you look at the passage you're going to use you're going to say how would what would this speak to the Ephesians? The church at the at Ephesus what would this say to them? You ready

to be candid sister Dixon how would this preach to them? And when you get that right then you can figure out how it would preach to us. Okay. If you don't know what it preaches to them you're probably going to miss how it preaches to us. Now how many of you want to how many of you want to do preaching right? Okay. Then you got to treat the Bible as the word of God and remember he's chosen the foolishness of preaching. So that's why we work at it. Number six form a summary of the direction for the entire sermon. Okay. This is where like I'm doing most of my stuff on the laptop now used to write it hard for him on a paper and do like a fold over week we can maybe talk about that if you're interested later. But now I'm like brother

cope. I type down a bunch of stuff a bunch of thoughts historical context bunch of theology nonsense. Well, good sense. And then you know what I do minimize, minimize both of those. And then I do a flow of the entire thing. Now don't rehash all of your illustrations. Figure out the steps of your sermon and its flow from start to finish. Okay. Now I promise you some of you are like at now a case how many of you have ever come in? It's okay. That's what I expect and I love to do. How many of you come in and ask me about how a sermon would flow? How many have done that in here? Yeah, good. All right. Some hands. All right. Now what that looks like in my opinion as most students as they talk to like by the Kiliman, I don't know how to get this flow

together. I got these thoughts and I said, well, what's the and you're like, well, what's the main idea? What are you trying to say? Okay. And I usually try to capture that as a title or something. And then I say, no, no, talk me through your sermon. And as they talk me through their material, I try to simplify and like four, three, four, five steps where their sermon is going. And I say, no, you got to lead them to a progression. If I understand you right, this is what you're saying. Yeah. Okay. And then this, yeah. Well, then here's your outline. They're like, wow, brother Kilman created a sermon. No, I didn't. I just organized your thoughts. And you got to learn to organize your thoughts. You ready? And take all of those beautiful things that the Lord has put in your heart and your mind and spirit

and put them in a form that we call preaching. That way, people can understand where you're going. Right. I told you it was going to be really simple, basic. How many you find this helpful? Okay. All right. Number seven, figure out, should it move deductively or inductively or systematically? Now, what does that mean? Deductively means are you going to tell the thought up front? Tonight I'm going to be preaching on whatever or is it inductively? Like the prophet Nathan, I got to have a conversation with David. He's not going to like it. So I'm going to lead him to it. And then I'm going to punch him in the teeth. David, thou art the man. If you walk into a room with a bunch of young people and say, tonight I'm going to talk about purity. Cha-chunk, they're shut down. You ready? Or you ready?

I'm going to teach today's, tonight's Wednesday night Bible study on tithing. Cha-chunk, they're out. Okay. What's going on? You know, the phones are out. People are checked out. So you got to figure out whether deductive or inductive are systematically or thematically. Are you going to look at a concept over the whole voice of scripture as opposed to doing verse by verse study? Okay. All right. Then arrange all of the information then to serve the sermon. In that flow that you've created, hang your illustrations and your information. Okay. Those are like branches. Then you hang all the little, oh forgive me for that. I got Christmas on my mind because my son's already singing Christmas carol. It's not even Thanksgiving. There was a mixed multitude. And so Sister Staten, what you do is you're building like the Christmas tree, is it where? If you believe in those,

I apologize if you don't. And you're hanging your information like an illustration that serves faith. Maybe that's on the first one. And then you work your way up hanging information, data, details from the text till you get to the crescendo, which is your clothes. Okay. And that's how you arrange the information. All right. Then you got to decide how you're going to begin. It can be with, like I love listening to Brother Wayne Huntley preach. He's one of the greatest communicators in Pentecost. He will say something like this, I stand to declare to you tonight. And then he will give you the thought. And that's a beautiful way to start an inductive sermon. Or you might start in another way like this. I want to ask you a question tonight. Have you thought about what unbelief has cost you? You guys are like same, right?

Because I'm already inside your heart. And you got to figure out how to start the sermon that serves what God has given you to say to his people that night. Okay. Work at it. Okay. Now I know sometimes you get called the last minute. Hopefully not for the call, but sometimes it can happen. Some preacher will bail and other preachers have to step up. Thank you for stepping up. I understand there are good reasons sometimes if you bail 34 times we're not using you. But what that means is, in a row is what I mean in Halloween. What that means is you may not have all the time that you need to distill a thought. But you want to know what a good rule of thumb is? Every sermon should have about 10 hours in it. How many? No, no. There are thicker sermons. Like how many of you

heard the sermon on how good kings fail? That's probably got about 30 hours. That was an hour sermon. That's why I should have broken up into three sermons, baby. But the more you distill and work at it, you ready? And you decide how to, you give yourself permission to say, how would I begin this thought? Okay? Then 10, decide how to end. Have you ever seen somebody that they're like awkward at goodbyes and it just rambles on? And you're like, I'm just going to walk away while you're still talking, you know? Oh, Chris's theorists have a lot of fun there with good nights. I'm just going to be hanging Jesus. All right. And then you're ready and then after this, you develop the whole sermon in detail because then you're ready. Not until then are you ready? Now you may say, well, brother Kilman, I don't do it exactly this

way. I understand you could switch these, range them a little bit differently. But those components need to be there somewhere. Whether, well, you get the point. How are you? All right. So let me give you a rough outline of the expository deductive sermon. A deductive is to say the big point up front. And that's something like this. Tonight I'm addressing blank. What are we going to preach on? Give me something to preach on. What are we going to preach on? Bitterness. Bitterness. Tonight I'm going to preach on the root of bitterness. Now I don't know that they're going to listen. Probably got to go to inductive sermon for that one. So you might say this, if it was inductive, you might say something like this. What is the root of an issue that can spring up and defile many people? Now if they know the scripture,

they already know root of bitterness. So you may have to hide it a little better. But again, that's where you tell the big part up front. All right? Part one, this is the introduction. It should be like a handshake. Okay? Give me a handshake, brother Noel. Have you ever met people that just like hang on too long? And you're like, this is getting really, really awkward. Like are you ever going to let go of my hand, bro? Let my hand go. That's how some people's introductions can go because they just ramble on. You ready? Because they haven't worked on their introduction. Thank the pastor because it's not your pulpit. You're their own borrowed influence. Thank the pastor. Thank the opportunity to preach. Greet the congregation and then move on. Okay? That's about five to 15% of the sermon. It arouses the interest in the sermon

that you're going to preach and introduces the subject. That's part one. And two. Part two is like this. You're going to say something that you state the subject. Four things hell has that the church needs. How many of you want to hear that sermon? I know. It's a good sermon. It's not my sermon. It's a good sermon. I promise you. Are you ready? It tells what the sermon is about and shows its importance. What it is is it's a listening hook. It arouses the interest, hooks the person and carries them into the sermon with you because they got to go with you for another 20, 30, 40, 60 minutes. Okay? And that's what that does. You could say tonight I'm going to preach you on being free indeed. Just make a preach you want to preach. Just hearing the title. All right, good. Good preaching

and bad preaching makes preachers want to preach. All right. Number three, part three, is the exposition or the going through the biblical text. I know all of you, data monsters and history buffs and people that love details. It's only 35% of the sermon. You have to distill all of that. You're like, yes, but it's wonderful. It is. But you got to move on to the other pieces of the sermon. Okay? All right. So lift up only the aspect of the text directly relevant to this sermon. There's no way you can preach all of the truth out of John chapter one in one sermon or a series of like 20 sermons. That's a sick prologue. Okay? So you have to say, I've had many students walk in and say, Brother Kilman, this is one of my preachers. I said, all right, let's go through. And I used to be

over at Copper Christian School and we worked with kids that would go to ascend and they go and we tried it out. I'm like, yep, yep, okay. All right, this is six sermons. Which do you want to preach? You got seven minutes. It's true. Now, if you can cheat like me and abuse the congregation, you can get away with why good kings fail. And it's probably 20 sermons. I don't know how many he's in there. But if you have seven minutes, you have to decide what you're going to say and only lift up the aspects of the text that serve the sermon that God wants you to preach out of that text that night. Okay? You got it? Use language that's easily grasped. You can be powerful and deep without using like verbose words and all sorts of other things. See what I mean? Okay, good.

You ready? Use color and life by graphic speech. Okay? I'll give you an example of that later. Oh, terrible. And then it needs a smooth transition into application. Now we're going to go into part four which is application. This is me in every math class class I've ever had in my life. I'm still waiting for the day that I will actually use this in real life. Okay? And of course then I went out and started my own carpet business and had to use algebra every day which was frustrating. If they had just told me that sister boy I would have paid attention that this is where this math is used. Okay? So part four is application. That's 35% of the sermon somewhere around there. You got to give as much time to application as you do the exposition of the text. Okay? It's important.

It applies the main point of what God wants you to say that night directly to their life. This is where most sermons fail. It has to have concrete examples. Don't tell me I have to be Paul because nobody in this room and nobody in any congregation that you preach to thinks wow I got to be Paul. That's not going to help them. Instead say this is a testimony of this person and you make that stand up and live and it's like wow somebody else can do this I can do this. Right? And I'm going to promise you if you don't do this it will not serve your preaching at all. It will serve the congregation you're preaching to. How many of you can remember stories that you've heard about in sermons? Testimonies. Yeah. Because it makes you ready to idea the sermon stand up and live.

That's why Jesus did it every time he talked. You ready? We don't have time to do that in detail. Right? And then it needs a smooth transition to the conclusion. Part 5 is the conclusion and it leaves a call to action. Right? Not simply a rehash you're not rehashing the five points of your sermon it finishes the sermon. I got preached a sermon here one time called broken tablets and torn bibles. I use where Moses come down and he's not just mad sister state and he just smashes the 10 commandments. It's prophetic gesture. Prophetic gesture in the scriptures where a man and woman of God will do something as a symbol of what the people have done. He said, you have broken covenant. And then I take a Bible and I start tearing pages out as I preach. And I know you're looking at me

like you're papin going to hell. I'll just tell you I don't use a King James. I figure if it's torn already it's fine. I'm so sorry for that. Not really. But as I tear pages out people I say I know you're shocked because I'm tearing pages out of this Bible. But what's more what's more dangerous or what's more important to understand the fact that I'm tearing this Bible physically or you're doing it in your life. You ready? What's more important that Moses smashes the tablets or he's showing you what you've done. And so what I say is I make a call in the conclusion I say I need I need two things today. If you're disobeying God and ripping out revelation from his word that you're not obeying I need you to pick up the pieces of covenant and put them back together in your life.

It's called action. And I say by the way I'm also reaching for where are you Moses that can preach with authority and not be afraid to tell people you have broken covenant. I need you to come up Moses and say I will be that voice. See how that that's applying that's a call to action. God I'll let my voice be heard. I'll risk relationships in a good way positive way but in a powerfully pointed way. Right. So that's the type of that's how you finish the sermon. Don't tell me a summary of your fight. That works in a conclusion for the paper that you've written for me but that's not what your altar call. Okay. Finish the sermon. Okay. Hmm. So the inductive the big point is to save save the point to the end. Now why is this good? It's when the when the congregation

is apathetic like I don't want to talk about bitterness tonight. You're ready or whatever the subject is it hides the point to the end and there are all sorts of biblical examples where both in Old and New Testament where this serves you have to figure out this which one of these two things serve the end that God wants me to preach. So what it does is Brother Herbs it doesn't let people shut down too early. What time do we need to be done Brother Cope? Now? Eighteen Eighteen minutes. Okay. How many of you believe God has chosen the foolishness of preaching? Then you have to respect that and say if I'm dealing with the tough subject tonight which in terms of the form of the sermon and its movement now serves the end that God wants me to get to and what would be some good inductive titles

where someone has said something and you're thinking I don't know where they're going but that's intriguing. What are some good titles? Like I've done one like the victory is not in the shout and they think they know where you're going because you preach about like you know Eli's son shouting and they don't get victory because it's not in it and I say and then I prove to them the victory is not in the shout your ability to shout and praise God is not where the victory is and then I say so if that's true why do you worry when the enemy shouts against you I take them to the passage where they one's coming up to bind Samson and shout against him and the spirit of the Lord moves on Samson and I say so why are you worried when hell gets in your face

rejoice not against me oh my enemy for when I fall how many of you think that a preach it has so inductive sermons can be both positive and negative they're kind of surprise sermons right they can be gotcha or let's go either one okay alright so let me close with this build till the end the same movement of the sermon but you build to the end we've already got that so you can man I wish we had time to do it but we don't have time to do it you can really do some sermons where the inductive message is in the last line of the sermon that is just fun and it's powerful because God can use it to say something powerful to the people of God okay good right so some notes on delivery real quick Brother Moon he said this to me a long time ago

if you don't understand speed tempo and rhythm you will not succeed as a preacher you mean I have to practice preaching did you practice singing did you practice your guitar playing or did you just get up there and go help me Jesus you gotta learn now by the way many of you are experts at a level you don't always understand because you've been watching preaching your whole life can I be a little more pointed you've been judging sermons your whole life because you can say you don't but you do you know when you walk out and go thank you Jesus other times you're like yeah sometimes you go I don't know what they were trying to say I don't have had some of those brothers no I wish I see people you want to know what one of the most humbling things is ask somebody

what you preach the last time you preach you remember that sermon I preach yeah that really helps no I did I'm sure I did how many of you remember every meal you've ever eaten no but you remember you've been fed okay that's the hope of the preacher thank you Jesus okay alright so you ready some issues on mannerisms are there any genuine expressions that you can use that are genuine to who you're alright what does that mean it means don't mimic be real be you be engaged that means don't imitate like if you say ha ha you may go down clapping there's a guy at IBC he said literally he said those guys in the in the slob they call it now student lobby he's like I don't know why people say I talk about the Stonking you know so we were out preaching on MSA

I'll tell you and the guy walks up to me because I preach first he preached second one of the little ushers walked up to me he said hey that was a good sermon I said that was wasn't it he said it was good when I heard Brother Stonking preach it too so me okay are you going to are you going to copy other people's sermons the rest of your life are you going to find your own voice are you going to find your own style now I'm not talking about like being struck by a sermon and a phrase and something you read in a book and developing a sermon out of that I'm talking about like word for word tell the illustrations and everything right and again you are going to be as you preach you're going to find your mannerisms you're going to mimic people

that you've had your own because that gets in you but you got to find like how many know who bad Bobby is see that's my thing right so I use that and it communicates alright and there are things that are indicative to you mannerisms that are indicative to you that you need to put in how about this how about tone can you develop tones that are expressive I'm going to talk about the love of God tonight thank you we are glad to have you you ready are your tones too high like I had a wonderful teacher tell me now Bobby when you get really excited you're like you know because I'm a tenor and high tenor and it's like one note it was terrible and it was absolutely right so I had to force myself to go into lower tones I have to work at it

still to this day okay are you ready or is it too strident are you ready to do you start high and then high you don't know what like you know it's like pitch you know okay I'll tell you something oh I hate to do this to you but it really does annoy me how many of you have been in like an altar call and the person on the keyboard like hits one key and lets it go forever I'm like I'm trying to pray I know whatever I know I'm probably wrong help me Jesus okay so my wife said to me one time everything exaggerated equals nothing exaggerated that's why you can't yell at your kids all the time you can't yell at a congregation all the time they don't know what the important part of your sermon is if you're like for 20 minutes you're like

it was good I don't know what was most important though but did you hear Brother Gallion he would step back into storytelling and walk you through the text get reflective and then he would just boom and that's where tone serves the sermon okay and that's tied to your passions around those things how about rhythm can you feel the movement of the sermon it's ebb and it's flow it's rise and fall it's crescendo and it's finish finish so pay attention to increasing and decreasing volume and density I tell you what's fun is you begin to preach and you tell a story and you get to that point where you just like and this you can watch people lean in which means it's fundamental to human nature and if you understand why God has chosen preaching you can use those things not to manipulate to engage them authentically

at their basic human level okay alright good alright so various levels of physical energy like you know some sermons are reflective some you need to like be like if you're going to talk about the joy of the Lord or triumph over the enemy you've got to have energy in that sermon I'm going to talk about being an overcomer ain't going to work for you you know right and then projection can you project your voice and I know some of you are like really great to be here tonight I just want to have a cohesive thought because brother killman is in the congregation you know and I understand that get over that and get your projection in there if we can't hear you everything that you've worked up to that point to do is going to fail in your delivery so project your voice project your

yeah you got it okay so placement of short or long sentence constructions short piffy things or like a long thoughtful things and then something like this emphasis or de-emphasis on syllables and words let's see how can we do that what are we going to preach about again besides bitterness what are we going to preach on what is it fasting who said fasting like I'm going to talk about the power of fasting you ready or I'm going to talk about the power of fasting one's an invitation the other's probably a rebuke and what does God want you to say that night turn to your neighbor say hmm that's what I say the whole time I'm fasting I'm like hmm that looks good alright alright let me show you a clip some of you I'm sure have seen this already forgive me for this you can do it

oh okay now what am I saying there what I'm saying is now this is this is speed and rhythm and tempo used for absolute entertainment and carnal reasons right but what I find fascinating is if you have a spiritual thing to bring to the congregation and you don't understand some of those things you're going to fail okay I mean like how many of you work at songs and when they emphasize and timing and all those things you got to do the same thing in your sermon not that don't do think of the chicken but give me some build some things let it find the flow of the sermon you ready give me highs and lows and carry me into the text and move me in my passions and engage my mind and then put me on my face or push me in the aisle and let me rejoice

before the Lord and a lot of that comes by understanding the rhythm of the sermon and it's delivery that's after you get all the content right okay like we don't have time to deal with it okay alright so then we'll do a little something called call and response and again this has been overdone in the flesh but what Brother Moon he said one time to us in classes preaching is a dynamic between the congregation and the preacher hopefully under the power of the Holy Ghost why because preaching is a dynamic and it can be not under the inspiration of the Holy Ghost that other thing was not under the inspiration of the Holy Ghost but he had you all engaged didn't he right so hopefully what you're doing is engaging underneath the power of the Holy Ghost so we're talking about things like this testimony

testimony is a listening hook like it's insert okay I just want preachers to do what songwriters do they work at it you work at it okay where's the listening hook in alabaster box you weren't there the night I mean I can't even hardly do that in my brain but I was going mmm because that listening hook grabs a hold of that testimony and pulls it out of me you ready it helps you it helps you get that amen that affirmation of what the God is saying through your voice in the spirit by the camera as you preach you can form that amen you can coalesce that amen inside of somebody and they say that's right and by faith they apprehend and they're changed in moments like that okay so take it seriously you ready like brother mooney say I may be just one person what does that

make you want to do when a preacher says I may be one person but I'd rather be in the storefront preaching the truth than preaching in any palace I know I tell you what that does because I see it that makes all of you young preachers stand up and go that's right as a matter of fact in one sermon it made you flood the altars I pointed that out to brother mooney one night that was beautiful somebody what is he asking for again that affirmation in the spirit or I went to a meeting one night let me touch that testimony a little bit my heart wasn't right okay good and again push them push them find ways in your sermon to push them to affirm in the spirit call that amen out of them so that they can get what God wants you to form

in their heart in their spirit right good rhetorical flair can you give language that's emotionally consistent how many minutes we have left three okay emotionally consistent with the depth and power behind them I'll give you an example this is an introduction to one sermon that I've preached before and I say like this the battle lines were drawn long ago in the Garden of Eden when Satan decided to usurp his role and made his bid for human beings humanity fell sin entered the world and from that time until now humanity has been the prize and earth the battlefield of the greatest war that has ever been fought you have an enemy why wouldn't you say it that way instead of just saying the devil's after you tonight yes he is lazy preacher okay you get the point but you can overdo it you ready there is a pre

pre-election by the intelligentsia to engage the manifestation of prolific exposition through a verbose buzzword form of communication notwithstanding the availability of more comprehensive diminutive alternatives also known as gross verbosity what did you just say don't overdo it okay good don't be wordy for wordy's sake okay don't try to impress impact don't try to impress them you ready don't bring your brilliance instead bring something that will actually bless okay and that'll help you you ready speed can you start to sermon in a patient way most of the time where people get this wrong is because they're new they're nervous and they're like okay let's thank you very much they sit down and I get that that's okay but start in a patient way begin slowly and build towards your finish and that means again to quote my pastor you got to understand tempo and speed

combine that with rhetorical flair where you really really work at what God wants you to say and that's powerfully effective okay I think we're oh we don't even have time to deal with the aphorisms okay yes hallelujah we'll stop there how many of you find this helpful okay good work at it work at it because if God's called you to preach it's the most powerful thing in the world to bring change it is the most powerful thing in the world because that's what he's chosen to say preaching why don't you do that I really don't know you're not off the hook entirely we saved just a couple minutes for a few questions alright so if you have a question to ask I'm gonna ask you to come stand up over here because if it's a good question you're gonna stand for it but if it's not

then you just stay seated so does anyone wanna come up and ask the first question all of you introverts that won't ask me don't okay all of you introverts that wanna wait and ask me one on one later get up and come up here now there are usually some of the best questions I'm gonna start off none question of preaching I have a question about preaching with a killman let's say this is my opportunity no one will say it let's say you're preaching and you don't feel any kind of response from the group you're preaching to is that an indication to go another direction how would you handle that as far as a minister well you know my wife just I hate to tell but my wife last night I got home and she put this big old thing of ribs out on the table

my wife can cook those in the instapot that literally when I was trying to pick them up they were falling off the bone and she puts like this barbecue sauce on them puts them back in the stove on high heat caramelize the sauce and that's the I ain't gonna tell you about the sides and so my problem is is if I filled up on like six whoppers before I got there no matter what you prepare because they're filled up on something else they're not gonna listen to you so sometimes there's a carnality that's involved sometimes the congregation is just tired and that's okay that human dynamic is real like brother Marlar did one time he's teaching on a Wednesday night and he could tell it wasn't going good he wasn't feeling good either and he was close to the end of his sermon anyway and he said it

he's like my god stand up I'm putting myself to sleep let's go let's all go God bless y'all let's go home he just kind of ended it was funny but he was done with his thought anyway so sometimes it can be lethargy on the part of the preacher there's a piece of that it can be in us sometimes it's poor preparation but most of the time the congregation is for you because they got to listen to you and so you got to figure out if it's in me or in the congregation there can be different causes when in the altar call the congregation doesn't respond like you expected them to so if I have an idea of how I'm going to like wrap it up and then they respond differently do I go back and re-end it or I always have a problem

okay so two things could be going on there God could be doing something different that you're misperceiving like every time I expect God to do something doesn't always mean that he's going to do it that way like I could be expecting them to be trying to bite the seal in and bouncing off the walls and they're going to be like yeah and instead the Lord spoke to me one time when I was a young man and said when you're in the hospital you lay still and let the doctor operate on your wounds and so what I thought would be like faith inspiring and building was just God doctoring them so sometimes we can misperceive what God is actually doing other times you know I haven't always ended well and so sometimes I talk past my ending like in a sermon the more you do it

you'll feel like a moment where they're ready to respond if you talk for 10 more minutes you may talk past your altar call so you have to figure that out and then you got to figure out if I just didn't give a good altar call and work at that and say what's my call to action what do I want them to think, feel and do that culmination that I miss it and that's where you can do some work to kind of figure that out hopefully you have a good mentor or a I have a wife and she's really candid with me and we'll help you when you when you don't do well usually they'll tell you why so you have to work at it could be multiple causes alright and these three are going to be the last three questions so for a lot of preachers

starting out especially going on MSAs concerning like first slots slots where you get five minutes or ten minutes or seven minutes for Calvary Accent how do you kind of structure something where you have to kind of do almost what at my church we call helicopter preaching which is like you just go straight up yeah good so what you got to do is you got to learn to cook fast and it can't be complicated you got to walk to the pulpit on fire and so that means you cause you're going to do this and you need to do this but you need to say this turn in your Bible to this and while they're turning there say I want to thank Calvary so much for this and this and this and you need to do that in a congregation if you would turn in the scriptures to this

we're going to read this text by the way I would like to thank the pastor so and so for giving us this opportunity sharing your pulpit time with us and thank you so much for your support of Indiana Bible College and then you move into the sermon and cook fast you got it's a one one thought sermon and you got to say that thought well illustrate well and you can't have a real alter call though right but you can say let's all stand today and just in a couple of moments we're going to transition and hear from my wonderful friend the word of the Lord but let me just ask you this right there in your pew make an application call to action right there and then move on wait so what's the best thing you do because like obviously we talked a lot about

preparing your sermon but I run into a lot of trouble when I'm delivering that a lot of adrenaline starts flowing I'm really nervous and then everything I've like worked for is like out the door good okay how many of you say you were not alone that's right okay all right so what this is is probably what you have in front of you is not what you need as a preacher probably what you need is something more simplified like what brother Mooney uses which is here are my five big points here are the illustrations off on the side connected to the points and here is like extra material in case I run out of time or I run out of sermon before I run out of time I never do that hardly and so what you do is you need to make sure like probably the conversational

logic say of a patrician method would work like it will keep you focused so the big five points or whatever you're going to say that's what you need to have down on paper and keep yourself focused on that because and be careful of improv because rabbit trails kill me and so in a classroom you can get away with it because I got you for 16 weeks you got them for 30 minutes you got to stay focused so learn to stay disciplined and simplify your notes in a way that fits you that way you can look down and say I'm on point one I'm going to say these three things here they are here's three illustrations like a paddler die brother mooney paddler die number one and then you got this is the image all he's got rubber duck he knows the whole story and so that's where

you would that's the probably because of your personality you got to figure out who you are as a preacher and what style of notes will serve your needs how many of you read an entire manuscript okay good don't oh be careful it's a crutch be careful brother gallion writes an entire manuscript out by hand and then never looks at it he has it up there on the platform but he never looks at it again he internalizes the whole sermon that way and then never hardly looks at it again he has it if he needs it but I've hardly ever seen him walk back to the pulpit so that ain't going to ever serve you well Rev because that's not who you are in your personality and knowing that you bring you to ministry is important okay good so I've talked with several people including myself

about this problem yes of a what's her name he's afraid of that weird name so they indicate that they don't feel comfortable yelling therefore they don't think they'll be a good preacher how do you address that yeah good okay how do they sing how do they sing do you sing with passion okay no no no so I had two mentors here at Indiana Bible College one of them is Talmadge French he's bouncing off the walls at 8 a.m. boom boom boom boom and like he actually threw a desk in class one time so when he preaches he's going to be like da da da da you know and that's who he is but I had another mentor that was very powerful but it was deep undertones boom boom boom and so finding a way to express emotion that is true to you see I'm not yelling right now right

but you got an expression a way that's meant to convey importance and this is true and here's why and so finding ways that's what I meant by mannerisms that are true to you so I don't think you should try to ever imitate Jeff Arnold because that's never going to be who you are and your personality type instead you know you're going to but you have to speak in powerful ways ways that are felt and you got to find that way that that expresses for you oh I hate to use this illustration but I'm going to tell them I'll just say there are two people I love that were at a football game God forgive them if you are against that God forgive them but they were they were at a football game and it's when those terrible heathen patriots lost lost to the cults God ascending revival

your way right now and what happened was is now the sun is like high emotion and energy he's like losing his mind I mean you got these massive snowflakes balling you know they're like yes the blood on your face you big disgrace you know I'm just kidding terrible and so one of his the sun is like a mile and his dad who's not like a mmm emotion he's like mmm he was just like this that was him at full tilt so what you do have to like it's like worship right some people are like out in the aisle and like you know they're ready they're like this at the go okay ready go and so other people are not as expressive in worship the same would be true in their style of sermon delivery but it has to be powerful it has to have your emotions

engaged in a way that's true to you and just because someone doesn't yell doesn't mean that they're not a preacher I'll go further than that since you've opened the door just because you yell that doesn't mean it's masculine because I know quiet preachers that you better not call feminine I just stand here because I'm a lady I understand you I hope you're a lady but are you an expressive preacher so we have some people that fall into the traps of thinking that's the only style of a way a man can preach or that's the only style of a way a woman can preach you have to be appropriate of course don't try to be a man well don't try to be a woman either and what that means is express your personality in the pulpit in a way that's authentic to you because you bring

you to ministry and God wants you to be you that he called you and God may say something like this I had a gift that I wanted to give you in ministry but you were too busy imitating someone else and so finding that like haven't you heard Ron Mullins preach before holy cow decisions I didn't know I was making what a sermon and he's not like yelling under an aisles is he good awesome one last question for the yelling I thought that was the last go ahead I love it look out for some of the students who are going to be preaching in in places that have multiple languages you recently preached at a Burmese church yes I did give us a couple applicable tips on preaching with an interpreter because I feel like a lot of our students are going to be doing that

that's going to be hopefully that will grow into some wonderful things by the way some of our Chin students are absolutely desperate for English preachers and teachers because their their kids that are here in the United States do not speak their language and the and the one of the challenging things is some of the leadership told me brother killman we can't explain our beliefs well in English so they don't think they're believable and so they're going to call many of you in very quickly to help them because they're in desperate need lest they lose a whole generation I would say this was the hardest things to do I had to write down an entire script and it has to be like four to six word sentences because that's about all keep your language very very simple and no conjunctives like won't I said that to my wife

because it went well the fortnight and the wonderful pastor he's a great great guy he gave up the first night the two days I was speaking to just English speaking kids which is great so I had to figure out in those two days how am I going to preach with the pastor because you know me I'm like and I'm using like words this long which I preach against and then I preach it and so I struggle right with clarity and simplicity and so I had to work at it so I asked my wife where did I go wrong she said well most of the time he was hesitating was conjunctive and they're in notions and and because they don't have that function in many language so you have to say will not instead of won't and write your sermon out stick to that and trust that

by the way Paul wrote some powerful sermons so God can inspire you to write as well as in the moment ok good thank you