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  (CLIP) WHAT IS PREACHING
  by John Piper
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Summary: This sermon emphasizes the concept of preaching as heralding,
akin to a town crier delivering a message from the king. It highlights
the urgency and authority in proclaiming the message of the king,
calling people to lay down their rebellion and receive pardon and
blessings through the sacrifice of the king's son. The preacher's role
is to passionately share the message, exalting and explaining the truth
with love and excitement, inviting others to see the greatness of the
king's offer.

Topics: "Proclaiming the King's Message", "The Urgency of Repentance"
Scripture References: Isaiah 52:7, Romans 10:14, 1 Corinthians 1:23, 2 Timothy 4:2, Acts 20:24

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This sermon emphasizes the concept of preaching as heralding, akin to a
town crier delivering a message from the king. It highlights the urgency
and authority in proclaiming the message of the king, calling people to
lay down their rebellion and receive pardon and blessings through the
sacrifice of the king's son. The preacher's role is to passionately
share the message, exalting and explaining the truth with love and
excitement, inviting others to see the greatness of the king's offer.

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What is preaching? The word here, preach, is the word herald. Herald.
It's not teaching.

It's not conversing. It's not sharing. It's heralding.

Heralding, before there was internet or television or radio or
telephones or telegraph, was what a town crier did to bring messages,
for example, from the king. And it would sound like this. Hear ye, hear
ye, hear ye.

And the people start to gather. They know that's the voice. That's the
herald.

The herald standing in the town square. Hear ye, hear ye. You take your
scroll.

The king has a message for you from the royal scroll with the imperial
seal. All of you who have hated the king, belittled the king, conspired
against the king, are hereby instructed and invited and compelled by the
king, at cost of your life, to appear before his representative and lay
down the arms of your rebellion. And if you will lay down the arms of
your rebellion, and you will swear fealty to your king, he will, because
of the sacrifice of his son, on that day pardon all your treason and all
your discontencing of his glory.

And at a time appointed by his counsel, he will come to you, and he will
live with you, and he will adopt you into his family, and you will
receive every conceivable blessing in his treasures. Thus saith the
king. That's heralding.

It's not teaching. Oh, it's got teaching in it. We call it Bethlehem
expository exaltation.

It's a preacher loving what he has seen, and being so thrilled with it,
he just, do you see what the king has for you?

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Video: https://sermonindex2.b-cdn.net/JvWhhHAFAXs.mp4
Source: https://sermonindex.net/speakers/john-piper/clip-what-is-preaching/
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