Scriptural preaching .

Scriptural Preaching 

Acts  13:13 Now when Paul and his company loosed from Paphos, they came to Perga in Pamphylia: and John departing from them returned to Jerusalem.  13:14 But when they departed from Perga, they came to Antioch in Pisidia, and went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and sat down.  13:15 And after the reading of the law and the prophets the rulers of the synagogue sent unto them, saying, Ye men and brethren, if ye have any word of exhortation for the people, say on.  13:16 Then Paul stood up, and beckoning with his hand said, Men of Israel, and ye that fear God, give audience.  13:17 The God of this people of Israel chose our fathers, and exalted the people when they dwelt as strangers in the land of Egypt, and with an high arm brought he them out of it.  13:18 And about the time of forty years suffered he their manners in the wilderness.  13:19 And when he had destroyed seven nations in the land of Chanaan, he divided their land to them by lot.  13:20 And after that he gave unto them judges about the space of four hundred and fifty years, until Samuel the prophet.  13:21 And afterward they desired a king: and God gave unto them Saul the son of Cis, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, by the space of forty years.  13:22 And when he had removed him, he raised up unto them David to be their king; to whom also he gave testimony, and said, I have found David the son of Jesse, a man after mine own heart, which shall fulfil all my will.  13:23 Of this man’s seed hath God according to his promise raised unto Israel a Saviour, Jesus:  13:24 When John had first preached before his coming the baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel.  13:25 And as John fulfilled his course, he said, Whom think ye that I am? I am not he. But, behold, there cometh one after me, whose shoes of his feet I am not worthy to loose.  13:26 Men and brethren, children of the stock of Abraham, and whosoever among you feareth God, to you is the word of this salvation sent.  13:27 For they that dwell at Jerusalem, and their rulers, because they knew him not, nor yet the voices of the prophets which are read every sabbath day, they have fulfilled them in condemning him.  13:28 And though they found no cause of death in him, yet desired they Pilate that he should be slain.  13:29 And when they had fulfilled all that was written of him, they took him down from the tree, and laid him in a sepulchre.  13:30 But God raised him from the dead:  13:31 And he was seen many days of them which came up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are his witnesses unto the people.  13:32 And we declare unto you glad tidings, how that the promise which was made unto the fathers,  13:33 God hath fulfilled the same unto us their children, in that he hath raised up Jesus again; as it is also written in the second psalm, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee.  13:34 And as concerning that he raised him up from the dead, now no more to return to corruption, he said on this wise, I will give you the sure mercies of David.  13:35 Wherefore he saith also in another psalm, Thou shalt not suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.  13:36 For David, after he had served his own generation by the will of God, fell on sleep, and was laid unto his fathers, and saw corruption:  13:37 But he, whom God raised again, saw no corruption.  13:38 Be it known unto you therefore, men and brethren, that through this man is preached unto you the forgiveness of sins:  13:39 And by him all that believe are justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses.

Beloved if your witnessing will impact your hearers, then like Paul, Peter or Stephen, your preaching must be scriptural based.

Don’t tell stories or politics to the people, but scriptures that will bring conviction to them and helped them to be converted like Phillip did.

Acts  8:32 The place of the scripture which he read was this, He was led as a sheep to the slaughter; and like a lamb dumb before his shearer, so opened he not his mouth:  8:33 In his humiliation his judgment was taken away: and who shall declare his generation? for his life is taken from the earth.  8:34 And the eunuch answered Philip, and said, I pray thee, of whom speaketh the prophet this? of himself, or of some other man?  8:35 Then Philip opened his mouth, and began at the same scripture, and preached unto him Jesus.  8:36 And as they went on their way, they came unto a certain water: and the eunuch said, See, here is water; what doth hinder me to be baptized?  8:37 And Philip said, If thou believest with all thine heart, thou mayest. And he answered and said, I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God.  8:38 And he commanded the chariot to stand still: and they went down both into the water, both Philip and the eunuch; and he baptized him.  8:39 And when they were come up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord caught away Philip, that the eunuch saw him no more: and he went on his way rejoicing.

Peter preached same and three thousand souls were converted.

Acts  2:14 But Peter, standing up with the eleven, lifted up his voice, and said unto them, Ye men of Judaea, and all ye that dwell at Jerusalem, be this known unto you, and hearken to my words:  2:15 For these are not drunken, as ye suppose, seeing it is but the third hour of the day.  2:16 But this is that which was spoken by the prophet Joel;  2:17 And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams:  2:18 And on my servants and on my handmaidens I will pour out in those days of my Spirit; and they shall prophesy:  2:19 And I will shew wonders in heaven above, and signs in the earth beneath; blood, and fire, and vapour of smoke:  2:20 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before that great and notable day of the Lord come:  2:21 And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved.  2:22 Ye men of Israel, hear these words; Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God among you by miracles and wonders and signs, which God did by him in the midst of you, as ye yourselves also know:  2:23 Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain:  2:24 Whom God hath raised up, having loosed the pains of death: because it was not possible that he should be holden of it.  2:25 For David speaketh concerning him, I foresaw the Lord always before my face, for he is on my right hand, that I should not be moved:  2:26 Therefore did my heart rejoice, and my tongue was glad; moreover also my flesh shall rest in hope:  2:27 Because thou wilt not leave my soul in hell, neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.  2:28 Thou hast made known to me the ways of life; thou shalt make me full of joy with thy countenance.  2:29 Men and brethren, let me freely speak unto you of the patriarch David, that he is both dead and buried, and his sepulchre is with us unto this day.  2:30 Therefore being a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him, that of the fruit of his loins, according to the flesh, he would raise up Christ to sit on his throne;  2:31 He seeing this before spake of the resurrection of Christ, that his soul was not left in hell, neither his flesh did see corruption.  2:32 This Jesus hath God raised up, whereof we all are witnesses.  2:33 Therefore being by the right hand of God exalted, and having received of the Father the promise of the Holy Ghost, he hath shed forth this, which ye now see and hear.  2:34 For David is not ascended into the heavens: but he saith himself, The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand,  2:35 Until I make thy foes thy footstool.  2:36 Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly, that God hath made that same Jesus, whom ye have crucified, both Lord and Christ.  2:37 Now when they heard this, they were pricked in their heart, and said unto Peter and to the rest of the apostles, Men and brethren, what shall we do?  2:38 Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.

Stephen preached same and was translated to Glory.

Acts  7:1 Then said the high priest, Are these things so?  7:2 And he said, Men, brethren, and fathers, hearken; The God of glory appeared unto our father Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in Charran,  7:3 And said unto him, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and come into the land which I shall shew thee.  7:4 Then came he out of the land of the Chaldaeans, and dwelt in Charran: and from thence, when his father was dead, he removed him into this land, wherein ye now dwell.  7:5 And he gave him none inheritance in it, no, not so much as to set his foot on: yet he promised that he would give it to him for a possession, and to his seed after him, when as yet he had no child.  7:6 And God spake on this wise, That his seed should sojourn in a strange land; and that they should bring them into bondage, and entreat them evil four hundred years.  7:7 And the nation to whom they shall be in bondage will I judge, said God: and after that shall they come forth, and serve me in this place.  7:8 And he gave him the covenant of circumcision: and so Abraham begat Isaac, and circumcised him the eighth day; and Isaac begat Jacob; and Jacob begat the twelve patriarchs.  7:9 And the patriarchs, moved with envy, sold Joseph into Egypt: but God was with him,  7:10 And delivered him out of all his afflictions, and gave him favour and wisdom in the sight of Pharaoh king of Egypt; and he made him governor over Egypt and all his house.  7:11 Now there came a dearth over all the land of Egypt and Chanaan, and great affliction: and our fathers found no sustenance.  7:12 But when Jacob heard that there was corn in Egypt, he sent out our fathers first.  7:13 And at the second time Joseph was made known to his brethren; and Joseph’s kindred was made known unto Pharaoh.  7:14 Then sent Joseph, and called his father Jacob to him, and all his kindred, threescore and fifteen souls.  7:15 So Jacob went down into Egypt, and died, he, and our fathers,  7:16 And were carried over into Sychem, and laid in the sepulchre that Abraham bought for a sum of money of the sons of Emmor the father of Sychem.  7:17 But when the time of the promise drew nigh, which God had sworn to Abraham, the people grew and multiplied in Egypt,  7:18 Till another king arose, which knew not Joseph.  7:19 The same dealt subtilly with our kindred, and evil entreated our fathers, so that they cast out their young children, to the end they might not live.  7:20 In which time Moses was born, and was exceeding fair, and nourished up in his father’s house three months:  7:21 And when he was cast out, Pharaoh’s daughter took him up, and nourished him for her own son.  7:22 And Moses was learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and was mighty in words and in deeds.  7:23 And when he was full forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brethren the children of Israel.  7:24 And seeing one of them suffer wrong, he defended him, and avenged him that was oppressed, and smote the Egyptian:  7:25 For he supposed his brethren would have understood how that God by his hand would deliver them: but they understood not.  7:26 And the next day he shewed himself unto them as they strove, and would have set them at one again, saying, Sirs, ye are brethren; why do ye wrong one to another?  7:27 But he that did his neighbour wrong thrust him away, saying, Who made thee a ruler and a judge over us?  7:28 Wilt thou kill me, as thou diddest the Egyptian yesterday?  7:29 Then fled Moses at this saying, and was a stranger in the land of Madian, where he begat two sons.  7:30 And when forty years were expired, there appeared to him in the wilderness of mount Sina an angel of the Lord in a flame of fire in a bush.  7:31 When Moses saw it, he wondered at the sight: and as he drew near to behold it, the voice of the LORD came unto him,  7:32 Saying, I am the God of thy fathers, the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. Then Moses trembled, and durst not behold.  7:33 Then said the Lord to him, Put off thy shoes from thy feet: for the place where thou standest is holy ground.  7:34 I have seen, I have seen the affliction of my people which is in Egypt, and I have heard their groaning, and am come down to deliver them. And now come, I will send thee into Egypt.  7:35 This Moses whom they refused, saying, Who made thee a ruler and a judge? the same did God send to be a ruler and a deliverer by the hand of the angel which appeared to him in the bush.  7:36 He brought them out, after that he had shewed wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, and in the Red sea, and in the wilderness forty years.  7:37 This is that Moses, which said unto the children of Israel, A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren, like unto me; him shall ye hear.  7:38 This is he, that was in the church in the wilderness with the angel which spake to him in the mount Sina, and with our fathers: who received the lively oracles to give unto us:  7:51 Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye.  7:52 Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? and they have slain them which shewed before of the coming of the Just One; of whom ye have been now the betrayers and murderers:  7:53 Who have received the law by the disposition of angels, and have not kept it.  7:54 When they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed on him with their teeth.  7:55 But he, being full of the Holy Ghost, looked up stedfastly into heaven, and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God,  7:56 And said, Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of man standing on the right hand of God.

For this to happen, you must be given to studying the Bible.

2 Timothy  2:15 Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.

You must also preach the word at every opportunity. Never tell stories.

2 Timothy  4:1 I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom;  4:2 Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine.  4:3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;  4:4 And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.

The grace of God will be sufficient for you in Jesus name.

2 Corinthians  9:8 And God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work:

Let us pray.