What is Expository Preaching?

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Here's the gist IMO
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The preaching that God wants us to do is expository preaching. We need to be accurate, okay? So, accurately handling the word of truth. Uh, 2 Timothy 2:15. So, we have to study accurately, right down to the grammar and syntax. We have to pay attention to those details, and when we proclaim the word, we need to present that truth clearly. So, when we preach, it essentially has a teaching aspect to it, where when you walk away, you should say, "I understand this passage. I understand what God is saying here." So, we must preach in such a way that you are taught well. You understand the scriptures clearly. It must be like refreshing water. Everyone who's ever sat under John MacArthur's teaching, the first thing they'll say to you is, "The Bible is so clear to me now. This makes sense." And so, preaching must have that teaching aspect. It must realize that they are human authors, so they used-they have historical background. We need to know the history. We need to know the cultural background. We need to understand the language, and that in that human context, and in the biblical context.
And so, we study grammatical, historical exegesis, is what we talk of. We look at grammar, we look at syntax, we look at word choices, we study the details, we look at the history, we look at the cultural background, we look at the form-it's a Psalm, it's a letter, it's a history. You have to study at that level and then teach and make it clear when you preach. And then, because it's God's word, it has authority, right? So it has to come across with the same authority that God has in it. There's rebuke, there's reproof, there's correction, there's comfort, there's encouragement, whatever the passage is speaking to, we draw out those implications so that we can be saved or sanctified, because that's the effect of the word of God. It also means, because the canon is closed and all of it is God's word, you don't just preach the Gospels or-you don't preach topically. I'm a great enemy of people who preach but only series on themes. No, the nature of the word of God, that all of it is inspired, means we need to preach through whole books so that you expose God's people to the whole counsel of God. Because if, as we, as elders decide, "Oh well, he has a good theme, we need to do, uh, just on marriage, or just on parenting, or now we need to deal with giving, and now we need to do this," it's great. They're biblical themes, and we can even exposit passages, but what about the little details that fall in between those passages? They're also God's word, and so we need to teach whole books.