R. Kent Hughes - 1-2 Timothy and Titus: To Guard the Deposit (ESV Edition)

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1 2 TIMOTHY AND TITUS

PREACHING THE WORD

Edited by R. Kent Hughes

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1 2 Timothy and Titus

Copyright 2012 by R. Kent Hughes and Bryan Chapell

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Hughes, R. Kent and Chapell, Bryan

[1 & 2 Timothy]

1 & 2 Timothy and Titus.

p. cm.(Preaching the word)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents: 1 & 2 Timothy / by R. Kent HughesTitus / by Bryan Chapell.

ISBN 13: 9781-581341751 (alk. paper)

ISBN 10: 158134175-X

1. Bible. N.T. Pastoral EpistlesCommentaries. I. Title: 1 and 2 Timothy and Titus. II. Title: First and Second Timothy and Titus. III. Chapell, Bryan. Titus. IV. Title.

BS2735.3.H83 2000

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R. Kent Hughes:
To my son William Carey Hughes
on the occasion of his first pastorate

Bryan Chapell:
To my ministry students
whose zeal for the gospel furthers my own

By the Holy Spirit who dwells within us,
Guard the good deposit entrusted to you.

2 TIMOTHY 1:14

Once again, thanks to my executive assistant, Mrs. Sharon Fritz, who has seen all the volumes of the Preaching the Word series through to publicationand that includes finding difficult references and verifying the accuracy of materials consulted. Again, thanks to Mr. Herbert Carlburg, who reads everything with an eye for detail. Crossways Managing Editor, Ted Griffin, always improves his writers. He knows what he has done for this book. Most of all, I want to express deepest appreciation to my wife, Barbara, who weekly listened to my ideas and helped bring them down to earth and out to the congregation.

There are times when I am preaching that I have especially sensed the pleasure of God. I usually become aware of it through the unnatural silence. The ever-present coughing ceases and the pews stop creaking, bringing an almost physical quiet to the sanctuarythrough which my words sail like arrows. I experience a heightened eloquence, so that the cadence and volume of my voice intensify the truth I am preaching.

There is nothing quite like itthe Holy Spirit filling ones sails, the sense of his pleasure, and the awareness that something is happening among ones hearers. This experience is, of course, not unique, for thousands of preachers have similar experiences, even greater ones.

What has happened when this takes place? How do we account for this sense of his smile? The answer for me has come from the ancient rhetorical categories of logos , ethos , and pathos .

The first reason for his smile is the logos in terms of preaching, Gods Word. This means that as we stand before Gods people to proclaim his Word, we have done our homework. We have exegeted the passage, mined the significance of its words in their context, and applied sound hermeneutical principles in interpreting the text so that we understand what its words meant to its hearers. And it means that we have labored long until we can express in a sentence what the theme of the text isso that our outline springs from the text. Then our preparation will be such that as we preach, we will not be preaching our own thoughts about Gods Word, but Gods actual Word, his logos . This is fundamental to pleasing him in preaching.

The second element in knowing Gods smile in preaching is ethos what you are as a person. There is a danger endemic to preaching, which is having your hands and heart cauterized by holy things. Phillips Brooks illustrated it by the analogy of a train conductor who comes to believe that he has been to the places he announces because of his long and loud heralding of them. And that is why Brooks insisted that preaching must be the bringing of truth through personality. Though we can never perfectly embody the truth we preach, we must be subject to it, long for it, and make it as much a part of our ethos as possible. As the Puritan William Ames said, Next to the Scriptures, nothing makes a sermon more to pierce, than when it comes out of the inward affection of the heart without any affectation. When a preachers ethos backs up his logos , there will be the pleasure of God.