How to Prepare Sermons by William Evans

Author:William Evans
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Moody Publishers

3. COMPARISONS, RELATIONS, AND CONTRASTS

How often Christ defined such terms as “the kingdom of heaven” by likening it to something already familiar to his hearers: “The kingdom of heaven is like unto a net that was cast into the sea, and gathered of every kind.” The preacher will do well to ask, with the great Teacher, “To what shall I liken” this? In what better way could the doctrine of the imminence of the second coming of Christ have been set forth than by the words “like a thief"? Preachers make the mistake of not putting enough “likes” in their sermons. To define the subject, therefore, one must ask himself to what he should liken it.

Or one may seek to show how his subject is related to kindred subjects: for example, if “Justification” is his theme, he might explain how it is related to sanctification and adoption.

Or, again, it may be asked, To what does this truth stand in contrast? Scripture makes much use of this method of definition: for example, sheep and goats, wheat and chaff, light and darkness, godly and ungodly, saint and sinner, life and death. We learn the truth by contrast.

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