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4 Sermon Illustrations on Preaching Christ

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Preaching Christ centers on proclaiming Jesus as the fulfillment of Scripture and the source of salvation, emphasizing the cross as God's power to save (1 Corinthians 1:23). Illustrations often portray Christ as the living Word revealed through everyday life and Scripture, highlighting His central role in all preaching (Luke 24:27).

Cross, Preaching the

Preaching the cross is the powerful means God uses to convert sinners.

Let others hold forth the terrors of hell and the joys of heaven. Let others drench their congregations with teachings about the sacraments and the Church. Give me the cross of Christ. This is the only lever which has ever turned the world upside down hitherto, and made men forsake their sins. And, if this will not, nothing will. A man may begin preaching with a perfect knowledge of Latin, Greek, and Hebrew; but he will do little or no good among his hearers unless he knows something of the cross. Never was there a minister, who did much for the conversion of souls, who did not dwell much on Christ crucified. Luther, Rutherford, Whitefield, McChesney, were all most eminent preachers of the cross. This is the preaching that the Holy Ghost delights to bless. He loves to honor those who honor the cross. Ryle.

Jesus, Preaching

Listeners honored St. Bernardino's sermon by inscribing JESUS on a monument.

It is said, that after one of the sermons of St. Bernardino of Sienna, delivered in the great square of Santa Croce in Florence, the listeners commemorated it by erecting a monument on the spot, and inscribing on it the single name JESUS.

from New Cyclopaedia of Prose Illustrations · Elon Foster

Preaching, Christ

Every Scripture text leads to Christ, the central message of all preaching.

"Don't you know, young man," said an aged minister, in giving advice to a younger brother, "that from every town, and every village, and every little hamlet in England, there is a road to London?" — "Yes," was the reply. "So," continued the venerable man, "from every text in Scripture there is a road to the metropolis of Scripture; that is, Christ. And your business is, when you get a text, to say, 'Now what is the road to Christ?' and then preach a sermon running along the road towards the great metropolis, Christ."

from New Cyclopaedia of Prose Illustrations · Elon Foster preaching

Preaching, Christ's

Jesus used everyday scenes as sermon texts to reveal gospel truths and God's care.

Our Lord found many a topic of discourse in the scenes around him. Even the humblest objects shine in his hands, as I have seen a fragment of broken glass or earthenware, as it caught the sunbeam light up, flashing like a diamond. With the stone of Jacob's well for a pulpit, and its water for a text, he preached salvation to the Samaritan woman. A little child which he takes from its mother's side, and holds up blushing in his arms before the astonished audience, is the text for a sermon on humility. A husbandman on a neighboring height between him and the sky, who strides with long and measured steps over the field he sows, supplies a text from which he discourses on the gospel, and it effects on different classes of hearers. In a woman baking; in two women who sit by some cottage-door grinding at the mill; in an old, strong fortalice, perched on a rock whence it looks across the brawling torrent to the ruined and roofless gable of a house sweep away by mountain-floods. — Jesus found texts From the birds that sung above his head, and the lilies that blossomed at his feet, he discoursed on the care of God; these his text, and providence his theme. Dr. Guthrie.

from New Cyclopaedia of Prose Illustrations · Elon Foster preaching

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