Title: The Gospel Sermon (4)
Series: Look To The Future
Author: Jeff Strite
Text: Mark 1:1
In the book of Acts, we're told the Apostle Paul preached at Troas, and he preached so long that a man went to sleep and fell out of the window. When the Pilgrims settled at Plymouth - their sermons lasted so long that the congregation apparently placed a large hourglass on the pulpit to remind the preachers how long they were preaching. And, even then, most sermons lasted from 2 to 3 hours. But the longest sermon on record was preached on February of 1955 by a man named Clinton Lacy. His sermon lasted 48 hours and 18 minutes. (E. Eugene Williams)
After hearing about the length of this sermon, someone quipped that he thought there ought to be another beatitude added to Scripture: "Blessed is the preacher whose TRAIN of thought... has a CABOOSE."
In the early church at Jerusalem, it was job of the Apostles to preach about Jesus. And there's a strong possibility that the Gospels we have in our New Testament were the results of a some of those sermons. The fact that each of the Apostles would not only have preached their sermons (but would have listened to the sermons of the others) probably explains why the first 3 Gospels have so much in common. If so, they were probably really loooong sermons. But in the culture of that day, long sermons probably were not all that uncommon. You get the right preacher preaching the right message... and I've seen preachers hold an audience's attention for 3 hours or more, and people wondered where the time went.
Now each of the 4 Gospels had an audience they focused on.
MATTHEW was probably the 1st of the 4 Gospels (see footnote #1) - and targeted a Jewish crowd. Matthew started out telling about Jesus' genealogy and then spent a lot of time with Old Testament prophecies declaring that Jesus was the promised Messiah. Those 2 topics would have intrigued a Jewish audience.
Most scholars believe LUKE was focused on ...
Series: Look To The Future
Author: Jeff Strite
Text: Mark 1:1
In the book of Acts, we're told the Apostle Paul preached at Troas, and he preached so long that a man went to sleep and fell out of the window. When the Pilgrims settled at Plymouth - their sermons lasted so long that the congregation apparently placed a large hourglass on the pulpit to remind the preachers how long they were preaching. And, even then, most sermons lasted from 2 to 3 hours. But the longest sermon on record was preached on February of 1955 by a man named Clinton Lacy. His sermon lasted 48 hours and 18 minutes. (E. Eugene Williams)
After hearing about the length of this sermon, someone quipped that he thought there ought to be another beatitude added to Scripture: "Blessed is the preacher whose TRAIN of thought... has a CABOOSE."
In the early church at Jerusalem, it was job of the Apostles to preach about Jesus. And there's a strong possibility that the Gospels we have in our New Testament were the results of a some of those sermons. The fact that each of the Apostles would not only have preached their sermons (but would have listened to the sermons of the others) probably explains why the first 3 Gospels have so much in common. If so, they were probably really loooong sermons. But in the culture of that day, long sermons probably were not all that uncommon. You get the right preacher preaching the right message... and I've seen preachers hold an audience's attention for 3 hours or more, and people wondered where the time went.
Now each of the 4 Gospels had an audience they focused on.
MATTHEW was probably the 1st of the 4 Gospels (see footnote #1) - and targeted a Jewish crowd. Matthew started out telling about Jesus' genealogy and then spent a lot of time with Old Testament prophecies declaring that Jesus was the promised Messiah. Those 2 topics would have intrigued a Jewish audience.
Most scholars believe LUKE was focused on ...
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