Fire-breathing preaching, not only is it biblical preaching, but it is clear preaching.
The Bible teaches us that our preaching should be clear.
It should be easy to understand.
Are you there in 1 Corinthians 14?
Look at verse 7.
And even things without life.
This is Paul, of course, under the inspiration of the Holy Ghost.
He's explaining to us how our preaching needs to be clear.
He says, for even things without life giving sound, whether pipe or harp, except they give
a distinction in the sound, how shall it be known what is piped or harped?
For if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prefer himself to the battle?
He gives us example.
He says, look, if you're out on a battlefield somewhere and you're in a camp somewhere and
you hear the trumpet, but it gives an uncertain sound, you're not going to know what you should
do.
And he's saying, he's using this as an example, he's saying, our preaching should be like
a trumpet, right?
We're going to see here in a little bit, cry out loud, spare not, lift up thy voice like
a trumpet.
He says, but it should not just be like a trumpet in the sense that it's loud, although
that's part of it.
It should be like a trumpet in the sense that it is certain.
It is clear.
You understand what is being sound.
Now I have my son Joshua with me, my oldest son Joshua with me today and he was coming
on this trip and I knew I was preaching this sermon and he started taking trumpet lessons
just recently, not too long ago.
And I asked him if he'd bring his trumpet with him to help me illustrate this point.
So I'm going to ask Joshua to come up here and bring up your trumpet.
Now he's new at trumpet playing, all right?
So be graceful with him, but he's going to do his best.
He's shy, but he agreed to help me.
Come stand right here, son.
And I wanted to just kind of give you an example of what a certain sound sounds like.
So Joshua, can you give us an example of a trumpet giving a certain sound?
All right, so he's new at it, but he was trying to give a certain sound.
Go ahead, do it again.
All right, that was good.
If I'm on a camping in a battlefield and I hear that, I'm going to think, get my sword,
it's time to go to war, right?
What if I hear this?
Here's an example of uncertain sound.
Now look, if you hear that, you're like, is it lunchtime?
I mean, are we supposed to go to battle or is it time to go to bed?
I'm not really sure what that is.
But here's what Paul's saying, Paul's saying, our preaching should be like a trumpet giving
a certain sound.
Here's what the preaching of the new IFB is like, go for it.
Here's the preaching of the old IFB.
Right?
Do you understand what I'm saying?
Sometimes guys get up to preach and they preach through Romans 1 and you're just kind of like,
I'm confused.
I'm not, our homo is good, are they bad?
Are you a homo?
I'm not.
And it's just kind of this uncertain sound, you know?
And God says, when we preach, it ought to be a certain sound.
Here's Pastor Anderson's preaching.
Pastor Anderson's having a bad day, let's try it again.
All right, that's good.
All right.
Here's Sam Gipp.
Here's Pastor Shelley.
Here's Andrew Sluder.
Here's Pastor Thompson, we just heard him.
Here's Gene Kim.
Now, here's what's interesting, here's what's funny, is that sometimes these guys, you know,
they deceive us for a little while, right?
They seem like they're with us, but then they're exposed or they expose themselves, right?
So here's Tyler Baker.
It kind of sounded good at first and then it just kind of, here, how about the other
Tyler?
Tyler Doka.
It was like, all right, let's give him a round of applause, good job, thank you.
Thank you.