Homiletics Study Pt 6

Introduction

Step 1: Attention

Startling / Novelty / Humor / Drama / Emotional

Example: Brother’s cup. Looked like a nice refreshing cup of coke, but in reality it was filled with disgusting filth. It looked good on the outside, but inside it was contaminated.

Step 2: Contemporary Problem

Where in Real Life? Fallen Human Condition

Example: You know sometimes our lives look a lot like this. We can go through the motions of Christianity, and everything appears to be fine on the outside, but inside our hearts are so far away from God that to God it appears as a sick cup of slime.

Step 3: Context

Writer/Readers: David is writing this Psalm as a prayer to God

Why Written: This is the fourth of seven penitential Psalms: 6, 32, 38, 102, 130, 143. David is writing it as a prayer of confession to God

Persuasive Intent: He is crying out for God’s mercy and forgiveness of his sin.

Review Up To Your Passage: Story of David and Bathsheba.

A Timeless Problem: David is addressing the problem of those that would fake a life for God while living in unconfessed sin.

Step 4: CPT

CPT: David was offering a true confession of his sin to God

Step 5: CPS

CPS: God desires true confession of sin

Step 6: Interrogative

Interrogative: How do you truly confess your sin to God?

Step 7: Transition

Transition: Our text gives us two requirements of true confession of sin.

Conclusion

Step 1: Review of main points

I. True confession to God requires an acknowledgement of the facts

II. True confession to God requires a broken the heart

Step 2: Review of the CPS

God desires a true confession of sin

Step 3: Visualization of audience implementing the CPS in their life

Someone that desires a sweet relationship with their God will keep a short sin tab

They will be open and honest about their sin, and about the depravity of their own heart

They will daily depend on the power of God to convict them of their sin, and to maintain that brokenness and dependence on Him

Step 4: Challenge to apply

We can be right with our God

We can offer an up an acceptable life in his sight

If we put into practice true confession of our sin, and a desire for a broken, dependent relationship with our God

Step 5: Final clincher statement

A.W. Tozer once said, “A man can never be used greatly for God, until he is first greatly broken by God.”

Can God use you?

Delivery Aspects to Keep in Mind

*energy and enthusiasm

*pronunciation, diction, rate, pitch, volume, quality, and pausing

*eye contact

*evidence of spiritual concern

*poise and presence at pulpit

*natural body movement and gesture

*orderly appearance