Day of Atonement - Yom Kippur

Step One:

I. SERMON TOPICAL, TEXTUAL OR EXPOSITARY TITLE:R

Develop a topic based on your passage.

OAKWOOD UNIVERSITY

DEPARTMENT OF RELIGION AND THEOLOGY

MASTER OF ARTS IN PASTORAL STUDIES

Sermon Outline and Exegetical Notes – Template

Topical, Textual or Expository Study -

For Class

RP: 341 Biblical Preaching – 1

Instructor Dr. Finbar S. Benjamin, D. Min

Cohort E – Undergrad Requirement

By

Andrew E. Mobley, Sr., A.S., B.S.

July 28, 2013

Henry Wright’s Eight Steps to Sermon Development.

I. Leviticus 23:26-32 KJV

26 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,

27 Also on the tenth day of this seventh month there shall be a day of atonement: it shall be an holy convocation unto you; and ye shall afflict your souls, and offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD.

28 And ye shall do no work in that same day: for it is a day of atonement, to make an atonement for you before the LORD your God.

29 For whatsoever soul it be that shall not be afflicted in that same day, he shall be cut off from among his people.

30 And whatsoever soul it be that doeth any work in that same day, the same soul will I destroy from among his people.

31 Ye shall do no manner of work: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.

32 It shall be unto you a sabbath of rest, and ye shall afflict your souls: in the ninth day of the month at even, from even unto even, shall ye celebrate your sabbath.

The Holy Bible: King James Version, Electronic Edition of the 1900 Authorized Version. (Bellingham, WA: Logos Research Systems, Inc., 2009), Le 23:26–32.

Choose a text that is familiar to you.

- Select the passage

o Reading as many versions as possible.

o Jot down first impressions

II. INTRODUCTION (Related to the scripture selected)

a. Authorship: Who is the author of the book?

i.

b. Date and Historical Background of Writing: When was it written?

i.

c. Socio-Cultural Background: What are the unique societal issues of the passage?

d. Purpose: Why was it written?

e. Audience: To whom was it written?

f. Literary Genre: What is the literary type of the book and preaching potion?

g. Theological Themes: What are the theological or doctrinal themes of the book?

h. Outline of book: What would an outline of the book look like?

Step Two:

- Look at key words - J

o Get close to the original situation

o Who is writing A

o Who is passage directed P

o What prompted the words (looking for intent)

J

Step Three:

- Where am I going with this passage

- What am I trying to accomplish

- To whom am I talking

- What’s the occasion

As already discussed, a preacher determines a Fallen Conditioned Focus (FCF) for an expository message by asking the following three questions:

(1) What does the text say?

(2) What concern(s) did the text address in its context?

(3) What do listeners share in common with those to (or about) whom the text was written?

Chapell, Bryan (2005-03-01). Christ-Centered Preaching: Redeeming the Expository Sermon (Kindle Locations 6006-6008). Baker Book Group. Kindle Edition.

This realization of the underlying spiritual design of all Scripture underscores priorities discussed in earlier chapters of this book:

1. Until we have determined its FCF, we do not really know what a text is about even if we know many true facts about it.

2. We should never preach on a passage until we have determined an FCF the Holy Spirit intended the passage to address.

Chapell, Bryan (2005-03-01). Christ-Centered Preaching: Redeeming the Expository Sermon (Kindle Locations 6040-6043). Baker Book Group. Kindle Edition.

Step Four: Illustrative material

- Windows to help people see where I’m going

- Reader’s Digest

Introduction:

Introduction that leads to a proposition that indicates what the body of the sermon will discuss.

INTRODUCTION: Chapell - Ch. 9. (Related to the Book in Bible Chosen)

Imagine that you have just stood up to preach.

· How will you begin?

· How would you let them know that this sermon is important for their spiritual lives?

· What reasons will you give them based on the passage?

· How would you move from your greetings, scripture reading, prayer, etc., to your text?

· What human-interest story can you tell, which would connect the audience with the main theme or concern of your passage as you begin the sermon itself?

· How would you summarize the main theme or issue in the passage?

How can you re-tell the theme or issue in the form of a story, before seamlessly transitioning into the body of the sermon?

The Body:

III. A. First Main Point Based on a Major Theme From the Sermon Text –

1. Explain: How will you explain this point? subpoints that form the skeletal outline of the sermon and structure the sermon’s explanation.

2. Illustrate: How will you illustrate this point? (Ch. 7) The explanatory materials, which support the main and subpoint statements, as well as the

3. Apply: How will you apply this point to the needs of the congregation? (Ch.8)

sermon’s illustrations and applications flesh out the skeleton formed by the explanation’s points

III. B. Second Main Point Based on a Major Theme From the Sermon Text –

1. Explain: How will you explain this point? subpoints that form the skeletal outline of the sermon and structure the sermon’s explanation.

2. Illustrate: How will you illustrate this point? (Ch. 7) The explanatory materials, which support the main and subpoint statements, as well as the

3. Apply: How will you apply this point to the needs of the congregation? (Ch.8)

sermon’s illustrations and applications flesh out the skeleton formed by the explanation’s points

III. C. Third Main Point Based on a Major Theme From the Sermon Text –

1. Explain: How will you explain this point? subpoints that form the skeletal outline of the sermon and structure the sermon’s explanation.

2. Illustrate: How will you illustrate this point? (Ch. 7) The explanatory materials, which support the main and subpoint statements, as well as the

3. Apply: How will you apply this point to the needs of the congregation? (Ch.8)

sermon’s illustrations and applications flesh out the skeleton formed by the explanation’s points

Step Five:

- Start writing the Manuscript

Step Six: Anticipating the Appeal

Step Seven: measuring Rod – Does the sermon have continuity

IV. Conclusion:

A conclusion follows the body of the message, summarizing the information in the message and usually containing the sermon’s most powerful appeal. Despite modern challenges to this traditional structure, such messages still communicate well if preachers understand the principles to which key features of the outline must adhere.

Step Eight: Rehearse

1. A Simple Word Study

Choose a biblical word from a Bible passage of your sermon and determine its meaning in its context by consulting the following resources:

nLexicon (English-Greek or English-Hebrew concordance)

nTry to determine how many times the word is used in the chapter and the Testament.

nStudy all of the significant occurrences which might provide important insight into its meaning. Make note of any differences or synonyms.

nUse a Bible dictionary or commentary to determine the historical and contextual significance of the passage.

nUse a theological dictionary to determine the theological significance of the word.

nTake notice of the dominant literary genre of the chapter as well as the Semantic Range of the word. Words do not necessarily have one precise, specific meaning. They may have multiple meanings (a range of meaning). They are said to be multivalent.

EXEGETICAL NOTES: WORD STUDY

Look research the important words of your passage in the following sources.

TEXT:

WORD/S:

ETYMOLOGICAL MEANING (LEXICON)

BIBLE CONCORDANCE

BIBLE DICTIONARY

THEOLOGICAL DICTIONARY

SUMMARY OF MEANING:

REFERENCES - SOURCES: See section: ‘Works Cited’

WORKS CITED

16 And the LORD spake unto Moses after the death of the two sons of Aaron, when they offered before the LORD, and died; 2 And the LORD said unto Moses, Speak unto Aaron thy brother, that he come not at all times into the holy place within the vail before the mercy seat, which is upon the ark; that he die not: for I will appear in the cloud upon the mercy seat. 3 Thus shall Aaron come into the holy place: with a young bullock for a sin offering, and a ram for a burnt offering. 4 He shall put on the holy linen coat, and he shall have the linen breeches upon his flesh, and shall be girded with a linen girdle, and with the linen mitre shall he be attired: these are holy garments; therefore shall he wash his flesh in water, and so put them on. 5 And he shall take of the congregation of the children of Israel two kids of the goats for a sin offering, and one ram for a burnt offering. 6 And Aaron shall offer his bullock of the sin offering, which is for himself, and make an atonement for himself, and for his house. 7 And he shall take the two goats, and present them before the LORD at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation. 8 And Aaron shall cast lots upon the two goats; one lot for the LORD, and the other lot for the scapegoat. 9 And Aaron shall bring the goat upon which the LORD’s lot fell, and offer him for a sin offering. 10 But the goat, on which the lot fell to be the scapegoat, shall be presented alive before the LORD, to make an atonement with him, and to let him go for a scapegoat into the wilderness. 11 And Aaron shall bring the bullock of the sin offering, which is for himself, and shall make an atonement for himself, and for his house, and shall kill the bullock of the sin offering which is for himself: 12 And he shall take a censer full of burning coals of fire from off the altar before the LORD, and his hands full of sweet incense beaten small, and bring it within the vail: 13 And he shall put the incense upon the fire before the LORD, that the cloud of the incense may cover the mercy seat that is upon the testimony, that he die not: 14 And he shall take of the blood of the bullock, and sprinkle it with his finger upon the mercy seat eastward; and before the mercy seat shall he sprinkle of the blood with his finger seven times. 15 Then shall he kill the goat of the sin offering, that is for the people, and bring his blood within the vail, and do with that blood as he did with the blood of the bullock, and sprinkle it upon the mercy seat, and before the mercy seat: 16 And he shall make an atonement for the holy place, because of the uncleanness of the children of Israel, and because of their transgressions in all their sins: and so shall he do for the tabernacle of the congregation, that remaineth among them in the midst of their uncleanness. 17 And there shall be no man in the tabernacle of the congregation when he goeth in to make an atonement in the holy place, until he come out, and have made an atonement for himself, and for his household, and for all the congregation of Israel. 18 And he shall go out unto the altar that is before the LORD, and make an atonement for it; and shall take of the blood of the bullock, and of the blood of the goat, and put it upon the horns of the altar round about. 19 And he shall sprinkle of the blood upon it with his finger seven times, and cleanse it, and hallow it from the uncleanness of the children of Israel. 20 And when he hath made an end of reconciling the holy place, and the tabernacle of the congregation, and the altar, he shall bring the live goat: 21 And Aaron shall lay both his hands upon the head of the live goat, and confess over him all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their transgressions in all their sins, putting them upon the head of the goat, and shall send him away by the hand of a fit man into the wilderness: 22 And the goat shall bear upon him all their iniquities unto a land not inhabited: and he shall let go the goat in the wilderness. 23 And Aaron shall come into the tabernacle of the congregation, and shall put off the linen garments, which he put on when he went into the holy place, and shall leave them there: 24 And he shall wash his flesh with water in the holy place, and put on his garments, and come forth, and offer his burnt offering, and the burnt offering of the people, and make an atonement for himself, and for the people. 25 And the fat of the sin offering shall he burn upon the altar. 26 And he that let go the goat for the scapegoat shall wash his clothes, and bathe his flesh in water, and afterward come into the camp. 27 And the bullock for the sin offering, and the goat for the sin offering, whose blood was brought in to make atonement in the holy place, shall one carry forth without the camp; and they shall burn in the fire their skins, and their flesh, and their dung. 28 And he that burneth them shall wash his clothes, and bathe his flesh in water, and afterward he shall come into the camp.

29 And this shall be a statute for ever unto you: that in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, ye shall afflict your souls, and do no work at all, whether it be one of your own country, or a stranger that sojourneth among you: 30 For on that day shall the priest make an atonement for you, to cleanse you, that ye may be clean from all your sins before the LORD. 31 It shall be a sabbath of rest unto you, and ye shall afflict your souls, by a statute for ever. 32 And the priest, whom he shall anoint, and whom he shall consecrate to minister in the priest’s office in his father’s stead, shall make the atonement, and shall put on the linen clothes, even the holy garments: 33 And he shall make an atonement for the holy sanctuary, and he shall make an atonement for the tabernacle of the congregation, and for the altar, and he shall make an atonement for the priests, and for all the people of the congregation. 34 And this shall be an everlasting statute unto you, to make an atonement for the children of Israel for all their sins once a year. And he did as the LORD commanded Moses.

The Holy Bible: King James Version, Electronic Edition of the 1900 Authorized Version. (Bellingham, WA: Logos Research Systems, Inc., 2009), Le 16.

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