 from sermon title okay like we're going to look at that today about sermon title so we're going to so sermon topic would be you know what is the subject that you know the sermon is going to be addressing it what is that that you're going to be talking about right so that is the sermon topic do you have so can you just tell us like what do you have in mind for the sermon are you going to talk about the presence of God basically discuss do you and it's using the believers life like it comes in and out of season okay even this do so it's a sort of sustenance I know you're on system so so that would be something like a that you would use to illustrate you know in the life of a believer that what is the due refer to what is the due symbolic of maybe it's freshness or even do something that is you know something that is very not very permanent you know it can it can be used to explain both things right when the sun comes up the do disappears so the impermanence of something and also do can you know you can talk about the freshness of you know how it the refreshing how this due on the soil or due on the grass which refreshes so so it could refer to both but so the so that is what I'm saying you know you can make changes to that I feel that you should because it's it's not a topic it is it is maybe something that is used to illustrate a point in the sermon so a sermon can be about the bigger picture of the sermon that the subject what you're actually focusing on will be something else right so you think about it and then you know you can make changes so the reason it's there in the sheet you know you can always you know you change your mind and say okay I want to you know maybe make a change you can do that right so you have that flexibility you can do that okay thank you Sudan for reminding about the recording and okay let's pray and then we just go okay let's pray father we thank you Lord we thank you for this day we thank you for this time we thank you Lord and even as we equip ourselves Lord to be your spokespersons Lord to be ambassadors Lord maybe do so with humility maybe do so living things out for the God that we will not just be proclaimers and pointing people to the truth but Lord that our lives itself will be a powerful message louder and clearer and even clearer and louder than the words that we articulate God the words that we speak out God I pray that it'll be louder and I just pray that we'll be able to Lord echo and declare just like what Paul says that we we can boldly say you know imitate me as I imitate Christ or follow me as I follow Christ I pray that you bring us to that place Father God of maturity of Christ's likeness and that's what we desire thank you we give you all the praise we come at this time into your mighty hand in Jesus' name we pray amen amen okay okay so let's yeah let's just go into today's class and even as we you know look at the topic of sermon construction putting together an outline I hope that will give more clarity about the sermon topic and you know you can make changes as we go along right so you have access to that sheet Excel sheet so you can go and you know you think about it pray about it what is it that you'd like to you know have as your sermon topic and then we go on so we'll make changes to that sheet I'll add one more column there which will be sermon title yeah I see a lot of people have started entering Abhishek Subhajit okay sermon title is also something that I would put here and we can enter later right so so the sermon topic talking about yeah the voice of his word okay so Subhajit you can just clarify a little more okay about the sermon topic okay anyway I'll just leave it there right now we'll look at the notes we're on page 29 okay so last session last class we looked at three kinds of sermons primarily like we looked at you know the expository sermon then we looked at the textual sermon and we also looked at the topical sermon right so we saw what the differences were with the advantages and so it's really we have the freedom to choose any of these methods in order to convey the message right so we can and each one has a purpose and maybe it will suit a particular you know a particular occasion right where you're where you are present to share the word right so so we can based on that you know we have the flexibility to choose sermon type and then and go with it and and and and like we were saying you know if it's a if it's a church congregation or a fellowship and where we are you know and you're journeying together you know as the Lord leads and so you have more opportunities for you know to come back and share the word to the same audience so you couldn't have a combination of these kinds of sermons therefore you know so you have especially when it comes to expository sermons and then you have time to you know study in a series and study methodically and at the church you know grows and is built spiritually right so you can have all these kinds of sermons in in in that kind of a setting okay so so let's look at the mechanics of sermon construction okay so well you know the Lord Jesus did promise that you know when you're brought up to a place where you are persecuted and where you are you know you're challenged for your faith and then he did say them you know don't premeditate on what your defense is going to be right he says you don't have to you know think beforehand what you're going to you know speak and what you're going to say but but the Father will speak you know the Holy Spirit will help you will give you the words to speak and you can and you'll be able to then speak that out and I think Peter did that between in in the you know in the temple and they were brought before the people when they were brought before the leaders and you know they did that they know spoke boldly and courageously and though they were untrained men and people kind of took note of that right so well that is true it does not excuse us from studying and preparing and and planning what we want to share okay what we want to know now this is this is this is an example that I heard and it's it's wonderful it's amazing it's mind-blowing and it's you know what pastor she shared once this was early days of church and and how he went to share a message I want particular service and it was on a I think it was a Christmas day yeah it was a Christmas day okay so well he he knew you know what he could share about about Christmas and he had studied and etc read the word and so typically Christmas day message you know about the Savior being born and so on so he kind of you know knew that but he was just waiting on the Lord okay so God is there anything anything this specific so he said he says that you know the day before the service well nothing no message nothing on the day of the service you know he's spending time praying no message nothing and he says you know the worship was happening no message you know what no idea what to speak on of course there are these thoughts okay I can you know the things are there but you know what should he speak on then he says you know the worship got over and it was time for him to go to the podium and share the word and as he took those you know four or five steps you know it is not like a location where we are when you where we are where you walk up to the stage it's just there you know maybe three steps four steps and you're there so is sitting right in front as well so in those four steps there was a download of the message entire message okay and it is what you could you would see in the book Kingdom Builders I think yeah where we talks about the merry miracle okay about protecting the work about nurturing the work and when he talks about the you know spiritual and the natural and and so on so so that whole thing came as a download from God as he took those four steps now it's it's wonderful you know and that happens super right you just walking up to the podium to pray and you know start and then wow here comes the message and you know you just deliver that and everyone thinks wow you must have spent hours preparing but you know he says that he just those four steps is what he took and he got that message and in fact he went back and and you know kind of wrote it down because it was all you know in his mind and his heart so he wrote it down and and that's you know part of that chapter in the book as well so so that's the thing and so it's wonderful when that happens and the praise God when that happens and there are times when you know and and those kind of things happen but it's we there it is no excuse while God will move while God does move in those manner it's no excuse for us to go before him pray spend time study the word you know sometimes wrestle grapple with the truth and then you know spend time studying preparing putting things together putting things together in a meaningful you know logical manner so that for the here it helps for the here it it it makes sense and they're able to retain they're able to apply it is not just to hear and to just go but they're able to take back retain apply it live it out and see the power of the word that was shared right transformative power of the word that was so so that is the thing so we look at this sermon study in the outline you know sometimes maybe that thought crosses you know are we making a big fuss about something you know are you making a big noise about this really but some of it is wisdom it is just looking back and saying okay you know this you could do this you could do that right and and all the while we are depending on God for the for the you know for the inspiration for the thoughts and for the emphasis and so on right so here are some things that we're going to look at now it is helpful if we would you know take take it and you know maybe and also always the flexibility is there we can modify it we can change it this is not set in stone okay but this is helpful and it is helpful in a day and time when there's a lot of clutter and when especially when you know we are using media and so you know the other day someone texted me to say you know they were watching an Instagram on Instagram there you have these on the story you know this few few seconds 30 seconds or whatever and that was so you know it was about last Sunday's message about redemption what pastors shared and and they're just you know praying about something and you know struggling over some of the struggles that they're going through and this came as a very refreshing thing and it came right through it was very concise and it was just those three or four things and about redemption and it's really edified them it was like an answer right so it can be very powerful at the same time you know that it needs to be presented in a in a meaningful logical manner for it to be you know in that form like media in that media right so so that's you know so that's why we're looking at all this okay okay so preparation again we go to God we spend time we receive we we put down and when we arrange it in a in a manner so it's good to think about a title okay now what is the difference between that the topic and the title you know like some of you you know you could you put I think yeah let me look at a topic here the humility of a servant king okay I think the rose he just entered at that okay the humility of a servicing so so I think that would be more like a title rose you know you're talking about God's humility or you know so you could probably you know rephrase your sermon topic maybe humility in general right so okay let's say we're talking about humility being a topic maybe humility of the believer here so roses talking about humility of the servant king right how God being God is also a servant so humility God's humility so the title can be you know something that is talking about the sermon something which is like which points to the sermon which creates awareness of the sermon creates excitement about the sermon like the title of a book or the you know the book cover design really you know and well it's not just the words in today's time it's not just the words but also the visual that goes with it right because you're sharing the word and you're giving a title and maybe you know you capture that as a document and you put it on you know maybe a blog or you have a website you put it there or you know you upload it for your Facebook you know your friends can see it and you put it there and and maybe as you know something on Instagram you know so it helps to have a visual a picture a graphic image a graphic design which conveys that as well but that's a just a you know that's an added thing but you know not really there's not something that you should you know go on work about or get worked about you know when you're preparing the outline but I'm just saying it is helpful right so the title so so you you see the difference you know let's say that let's take this example of you know rose's a sermon topic about God's humility the title could be something something else okay so what do you think could be a title you know any suggestions okay we are we are addressing you know the song sermon topic being God's I'm just assuming that that could be a sermon topic so what could be a sermon title what could what would be something that could point to God's humility anyone there's no right or wrong you know obviously you can bearing fruit hmm okay that's being effective in ministry our life being productive right so when you say very good it points to that right anything anything that would so sir sir if I may ask the topic God's humility is it is he's talking about God's himself humbling himself so that we can approach him or is it talking about us putting on God's humility thank you yeah so I mean this is roses topic I just kind of rephrased it this way so yeah is it could go either way you know it could be about from what I see it is about the servant king you know the fact that he humbled himself it is a contrast of being king that and then being servant at the same time okay so there you have the answer so that's a thing so here are some titles okay power of being humble okay washing your disciples feet okay that's okay I'm just thinking of a song that we you know came up with last the God's power to be humble okay lamb side of the land nice so you see the difference between the topic and the title right so I'm just thinking of the first line of a song holy at humble it's not a contrast but that was the first line of the song that we you know wrote a song called what love is this talking about holy at humble you know so you know are sovereign and humble something like that you know so yeah you get the you get the idea so give it a title so when giving it a title here are some things that we can think of so for your sermon topic also you know I just put that out of that column there so you give it a title you know think about okay turns it here in God's wise so you can choose a title okay so here are some things to think about when we are giving a title okay powerfully at humble yes so the title read it let it talk about the main theme of the message okay what is the main content of the message it's about humility of this great God the fact that that he humbled himself and you know came down and and being a servant and the fact that you know you know that he did both the reality of one did not prevent him from being this like the fact that he's all powerful awesome omnipotent didn't really stop him from you know keeping that aside that that glory and walking in sunshine glory right so so let the title reflect that let the title point to that okay so let the title also not confuse the audience let it not confuse the content okay so now I know there is you know there is this whole thing of being abstract you know being abstract and and and talking about and and also you know stirring the crew who curiosity of the audience right stirring up the curiosity of the audience what you're thinking about you're looking at a tight line is like wow I think I want to listen to that message okay so so charge the question is which is bigger the title of the topic obviously the topic is what the meat is you know it's what the heavy it's it's definitely weighty and important but a title would point to that you know your topic is going to be the whole content of the message but the title would it's you know it's something that's points to that and we're looking at some of the practical things which help us to come up with a good title and the importance of the title really is in today's day and time is because of the visibility you know because of the various avenues we have in putting the message out you know if it's on social media you know you put a hashtag and and people are able to access it when they are searching for something therefore having you know a good title a title that that is that captures the attention is is good so that's why we are you know so it's not about it's really the obviously the topic matters but the title would help because of the opportunities we have to reach people right okay so it should not obscure the content it should be simple and communicate well complementing the message it's all there in the notes you know you can always refer to it and well coming up with the title it should provide a good atmosphere for the sermon you know the thing is sometimes it it it really helps set the tone for the sermon it set the tone for the sermon whether it's going to be a light message but it's going to be you know that bit of humor and all that but also you know something important to be conveyed so it's kind of sets the atmosphere the tone of the sermon okay so the title could be in the form of a question it could be a phrase it could be something related to you know the list is endless you can just go wild with and creative about bringing a title but for us to just you know keep this in mind it would help okay okay so having done that son of God son of man yeah so these are you know classic titles yeah okay so you think about it and you come up with a title okay then the next thing is the introduction okay as you're putting together we're not really talking yet about the outline but really to think about the introduction okay so the introduction is the process by which the speaker prepares the audience okay now this is what we are going to be talking about this is what we we are going to be addressing you know this morning or afternoon and introduction so it kind of prepares the people it people are thinking about various things obviously and it kind of brings them you know to focus on this one thing so it's these are your opening comments so it's good to you know capture the attention of the audience it's good to get their interest around their curiosity and and start right so it's in that sense it's essential rather than kind of diving in you know whatever you say is actually the introduction because you're introducing yourself maybe introducing the topic we're looking at introduction of the message of the content right so what it's you know your introduction would be a preintroduction okay maybe you're thanking people maybe you're you know thanking the pastor thanking whoever gave you the opportunity and maybe saying hello you know to everyone it's a kind of a preintroduction but you know when we say introduction we are actually talking about the introduction of the of the son of the message that you're conveying right so that is in that sense that's introduction so so it you can take your time with it but always be aware of the length of this message what time do you actually have is it ten minutes then obviously the introduction has to be less than a minute right you just do that you know maybe it's just a ten minute thing that you're maybe recording and putting it out there so obviously you can't spend too much time on that you just say what what you're going to be talking about you know hello and welcome and just get straight away into it okay maybe less than a minute or so but if it's going to be let's say 45 minutes then obviously you have the luxury of giving introduction spending some time on it but also not too much time okay so as they say well begun is half done so you know it's think about that and introduce theme of the son okay so there are many ways by which you can by which you can you know start or introduce or have your introduction it could be a biographical introduction it could be a short you know story it could be a quotation it could be you know I had people just come up and start singing and you know it could be words of the song it could be you know song itself a part of a song so it can be some something from the text from the sermon itself that you want to or maybe some quote you know based on the sermon that you came up with that you want to emphasize but you start with that saying God is a good God no matter what you're going through well you know that's how you're setting the tone for the message right now I just want to share with us introduction that I heard some years back and this is by a person by name Dr. Chris Nyanakan he was at that time he was teaching in Syax one of the seminaries Bible colleges here and he actually I think he starts most of his messages with a kind of introduction like this so it's a poem that he wrote and it was it is on the Bible on the word of God and I found that really captivating so I'm just putting it here so it's called my precious old book Dr. Chris Nyanakan so let me just read it so he just comes and you know he does all the pre-introductly talk and then he just goes I think he just goes into this itself he just says though the cow be torn and its pages be worn and places bear traces of tears yet more precious than gold is this book worn and torn that can shatter and scatter my fears as I pray fully look in this precious old book many treasures and pleasures I see many promises of love from my father above who is nearest and dearest to me this book is a guide is a friend by my side it will lighten and brighten my day and each promise I find okay every part of it is there each promise I find let me just put the other part also the other two verses I think there's a word limit and what I can copy paste okay there we go this book is a guide is a friend by my side it will lighten and brighten my day and each promise I find suits and gladdens my mind as I preach it and teach it each day to this book I will cling of its worth I will sing through many crosses and losses be mine for I cannot despair though surrounded by care while possessing this blessing divine okay so and then he goes on to say something which you some cliche which you might have heard you know you carry the Bible and the Bible carries you something like that and then goes on to the message but this you know he has some variations of two or three variations of this of this poem which he starts off with so you know something like this it's a nice you know way to introduce but as long as your you know somewhere you can relate it to the topic of your what you're going to share or maybe it's just a you know something unrelated but you need to be have you need to be able to transition from here into the topic obviously you want to talk about the God of the Bible and you're going to talk about you know the power of the word or the encouragement that is in the word and you know and you can share that so so this is something you know it could be a poem it could be it could be a quote can be very very powerful and it also set the tone right it also depends on what kind of you know what kind of a message it is so you set the tone you know it can be something maybe you're a person you're just going to be you know really preaching it you know when I say preaching it this morning you know on that occasion you would be really powerful declarations you're gonna be making some declarations it's going to be but it's going to be kind of kind of dramatic in the way you're going to do it right you just feel that I just need to I just need to send this message you know what I mean I just need to preach it I need to I need to tell it what it is I need to declare it I need to shout it out right so it sets the tone the introduction sets the tone so you can't really have an introduction where you say you know you just mom you know you're all soft and you know I just want to praise God for what he's you know what he's about to do this morning and then suddenly go on and say God is a good God you know it's it's it seems really jarring it doesn't seem to it kind of it's it's dissonant right it rather than bring an attention it actually causes you know the opposite thing right so yeah so you can do that also well if you've you know seen some speakers humor you know you start with a joke I've seen some preachers read out some jokes now if the audience doesn't get the joke it bounces it just bombs back on you and you have to do a lot to get the audience back like if people don't understand the joke or if you're not used to you know sharing a joke then it's going to be really difficult you know if that's not your style okay so I remember the story about this preacher and you know and said you know what pastor you're so serious you know you should have some jokes in your message so and he got fed up of getting this is this a theme as the topic sorry Charles is the theme as the topic I don't understand yeah so what you're asking is is the scene the same as the topic yeah okay okay yeah yeah yeah it's more or less the same thing just yeah okay so what was it saying okay so everybody said you know preacher you know you need to you need to have a joke and then it's okay so he said okay I'll tell a joke so so he just thought of something and he read something and he said okay Sunday morning I know he goes there and he says okay I just want to tell you this so the joke was very simple he just wanted to shock the audience so he said you know last evening I held a woman in my arms and so second line that woman was not my wife so everybody shocked and then he would say it was my mother okay so so that was a joke so he he just he's not used to sharing jokes so he just you know just made this joke up he's already he goes on Sunday morning and he goes to the audience and Sunday morning service and says it's time for him to preach and says last night I held a woman in my arms the audience is you know they're not used to this part you know pastor preaching like this so they're like standing you know sitting on the edge what is he saying they got this they've he's got their attention second line he says it was not my wife and everybody goes shocked now complete silence and then the pastor forgets the third line he thinks about it and he says the second line again it was not my wife and he's he forgets the third he's mind is absolutely blank and then he tells he confesses to the audience he says to the church he says I forget I forget who's who I was holding in my arms and you know absolute disaster it what was supposed to be a joke what was supposed to and he's like you know he says I forget who who who was holding in my arms so you know so that's a thing just to tell you that you need to be careful about using humor it can bomb you know bounce back it can be and it's going to be very difficult to you know lift from there or recover from there okay so use humor and I mean that's fine but if it is something related to the message if it is something you know you know that you can that is that is what you're used to use it otherwise do not right okay yeah sometimes you might have a pre-interrupted thing like you know you're thanking your welcoming you know you can do that okay so we looked at title we looked at introduction we looked at okay yeah when should the introduction be written as you big or after the whole message has been written down well that's a good question it see if you're inspired to start the message in a certain way I mean this has been my you know this is where my experience probably for someone it could be different so you know as and when like what gives these thoughts I just put it down and I'm you know I'm done and I'm putting it in a logical sequence in order and you know sometimes these illustrations come and I'm just you know putting it here and putting it there and then it so it doesn't come in any order man I I think about it and then I don't get any thoughts I'm not inspired in any way to have that kind of an introduction and then I just leave it you know I just leave it for some time just pray about it leave it in and ask the Lord so it need not be right then and there it can come in later also or how you're going to end the message also you know how we want to end the message how you want to conclude with prayer and and so on so that also you know you it doesn't have to be you know in the logical thing it's a different later right it's normally with me maybe for others it works differently so yeah right so okay so let's look at let's look at the next one which is the proposition okay so so it's a declaration of the topic that you're of the subject okay so when it comes to probably it's you're talking about the big idea or the central idea or the central theme of the thing that you're going to be talking about so it's good to you know share about this what is that thing it can be a it's it's good helpful to ask these questions okay two questions okay what am I talking about and what am I saying about what I'm going to talk about okay what am I going to talk about and what am I going to say about what I'm going to talk about you know so how am I going to explain that so ask yourself that question and if we can write it down you know if you can write down what is it that I'm going to talk about and what is and what am I going to say about that okay maybe it could be two things three things that you're going to be saying and so if you can just put that together and and have it as one statement and share it you know that's that that we would call as a proposition you share it right at the beginning and and you you share that right so you can write out in a sentence maybe if you want to try it you can you can try that out let's say yeah I see some more sermon topics here okay sermon title here okay okay so you can you can try it out you know maybe think about it and then try it out okay what are those three things what are those four things that I want to you know share what I want to talk about and and how am I going to go about doing it we're going to be looking at this this and the other so you can you can share that you can so two things you know two questions what is the subject which is you know what am I talking about what am I going to talk about and a compliment to that subject meaning what exactly am I saying or what am I going to say about what I'm talking about right so so you could you know use that as an introduction okay now how do we relate sorry this is the proposition right now how do we relate the proposition to the main points of the sermon okay so so normally from this proposition how do we go into the main points of the sermon so it can be you know what is called an in interrogative sentence okay so you ask a question okay let's say let me take a topic okay hearing from God is what Perunas put up okay so so we'll probably have a proposition like today we're gonna look at well God is a speaking God and we're gonna look at you know can man actually hear what God is saying we gotta look at the ways which God speaks and the ways we can position posture ourselves to hear God and hear him clearly then you know and then you can have a transitional sentence or a transitional statement to go into the main outline okay so that would be in the form of a question so so where do we start you know does God speak today that's an interrogative statement right you're asking a question so does God really speak today okay in today's day and time is it a reality does God speak and then you go into maybe quoting a scripture okay that that God is alive and God is a speaking God and these other and he speaks you know in answer to that interrogative question and to that's that transition from the proposition from the big idea into the outline of the message okay so is that that fine any any doubts any questions so I think it's it's fairly simple right so but but I really like us to you know we can to put together an outline so you can use these yeah chance now hey when it has come the proposition like it does God speak today and like it can be in the introduction I am I am now looking at a like the in the in the in the PDF it says ideally each someone is the explanation interpretation or application of a single dominant idea supported by other ideas or drawn from one passage or several passages of the scripture so now I'm looking at the proposition now this is now the way you the preacher the one who is going to preach the way you have formulated either a question or a statement so it is your it's your personal or personal idea that though it is based on the on the scripture but it is so now your interpretation how you are going to express it is that am I getting it right like that yeah so so the proposition so we are saying a dominant thought idea big idea I know that's the that is a what the message is about and the proposition is going to be stating that so you're just stating that idea and and yeah so from that you state that idea and then when you get into the message you a one way to transition or move from that to the message would be to ask you know to do we have would be to have a interrogative statement now it's a suggestion right you can and it's it's but it's a good effective transition where you can ask a question you know just like that example that we said you when it comes to hearing God you know just ask a question or does God speak today and then you quote a scripture and then go into it yeah can I can I inquire can I inquire as in something like a link like you are begin you are moving from the introduction and you are going to go into your main thing so you you are linking you you are getting a connective tissue is it like that yeah yeah exactly see yeah yeah Charles that's that's exactly that right so you just from there you're just going into the message so the thing is we we normally do it seamlessly you know we might actually be doing it without without even thinking you know in our in our presentations and so on but we just just because we put it there it seems a little strange right just because we are looking at it as one of the elements of some of some of construction it seems a little same but actually normally we do things do these actually very naturally you know this kind of a transition but what you're saying is right okay so okay I guess we'll stop here and then we yeah we'll get into the actual putting together the outline and the you know illustrations and so on now you know we'll you know when we actually come comes to the presentation it's it's a simplified thing but we are looking we are breaking things down we are looking at it in detail so maybe it seems like oh man this is how a sermon should be or well these are elements of you know of an outline elements of you know this would help us it would help us to be effective right so that's the everything okay okay so we'll stop here and we'll we'll meet on Monday for the other class just read through you know that exercise about psalms sorry not psalms parables which we were talking about for those of us who have not okay just read through that and also with regard to this subject if you can you know think about the sermon topic and finish it the sermon title that'll be great okay so thank you God bless we'll catch up again on Monday bye bye thank you pasta bye bye bye bye bye see you thank you buster goodbye