{"id":3906,"date":"2016-07-13T07:19:52","date_gmt":"2016-07-13T07:19:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=3906"},"modified":"2016-07-13T07:19:52","modified_gmt":"2016-07-13T07:19:52","slug":"only-scriptural-preaching-is-good-preaching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=3906","title":{"rendered":"Only Scriptural preaching is good preaching"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Only Scriptural preaching is good preaching<br \/>\nI heard of a preacher who very eloquently said that at the conversion of a sinner an angel of God picks up a heavenly quill and flies from God\u2019s throne to that fountain filled with Christ\u2019s blood, dips his quill into the blood of that fountain and then flies to the Lamb\u2019s Book of Life and inscribes therein the name of the newly converted sinner. A hearer objected, reminding the preacher that, according to the Scriptures, the names in the Lamb\u2019s Book of Life were inscribed therein before the foundation of the world, thereby declaring the preacher\u2019s illustration to be unscriptural. The preacher replied, \u201cThe illustration may be unscriptural, but it surely is good preaching!\u201d<br \/>\nUnscriptural preaching is never good preaching. God means it when He says, \u201cTo the law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, it is because there is no light in them\u201d (<a href=\"http:\/\/biblia.com\/bible\/kjv1900\/Isaiah%208.20\">Isaiah 8:20<\/a>). Only Scriptural preaching is good preaching! Scriptural preaching declares \u201cThus says the LORD\u201d (e.g.,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/biblia.com\/bible\/kjv1900\/Jeremiah%209.23f\">Jeremiah 9:23f<\/a>) and \u201cIt is written\u201d (e.g.,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/biblia.com\/bible\/kjv1900\/Matthew%204.4\">Matthew 4:4<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/biblia.com\/bible\/kjv1900\/Matthew%204.7\">7<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/biblia.com\/bible\/kjv1900\/Matthew%204.10\">10<\/a>), not \u201cThus imagines man\u201d and \u201cIt should have been written.\u201d Good preaching is \u201caccording to the Scriptures\u201d (<a href=\"http:\/\/biblia.com\/bible\/kjv1900\/1%20Corinthians%2015.3\">1 Corinthians 15:3<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/biblia.com\/bible\/kjv1900\/1%20Corinthians%2015.4\">4<\/a>), not \u201caccording to man\u201d. And it will stand the test of all who \u201csearched the Scriptures daily to find out whether these things were so\u201d (<a href=\"http:\/\/biblia.com\/bible\/kjv1900\/Acts%2017.11\">Acts 17:11<\/a>). Daniel Parks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Only Scriptural preaching is good preaching I heard of a preacher who very eloquently said that at the conversion of a sinner an angel of God picks up a heavenly quill and flies from God\u2019s throne to that fountain filled with Christ\u2019s blood, dips his quill into the blood of that fountain and then flies [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-author-daniel-parks","category-gospel-preaching"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3906"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3907,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3906\/revisions\/3907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}