The Sufficiency of Christ Considered: Promises Made, Promises Kept - Expository Devotional on Hebrews 11:39-40

All Urban Puritano explorations in expository preaching have been preached in a Spanish congregation and have been translated by yours truly to exemplify a hybrid Puritan approach to preaching for today. There is a simple style that presents the fruits of textual analysis and translates it into homiletical synthesis for the glory of God and the good of the congregation.

There is an Intro/Exordium that introduces the theme of the sermon broadly and narrowing it to the text on which the theme is based. The second portion of the sermon is the theme of the text being exposited. This theme or topic is its doctrinal substance and what is predicated about the subjecht matter. Next, there are reasons and arguments proving the doctrinal substance is rightly divided. Once the truth has been explained, the uses of the doctrinal theme must be spelled out. Just as there is no compunction in judiciously formulating the sermon's doctrinal theme in a homiletically appropriate way, neither is there any compunction in pastorally and judiciously deriving warranted implications from the text to apply to the hearers' hearts and lives. Lastly the conclusion/epilogue serves to summarize the exposition and call hearers to worship God in Christ through the Spirit.

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Who is sufficient unto these things?

Certain circles in Evangelical and Reformed academia are giving the Quadriga a pass when it comes to Biblical hermeneutics. It’s toleration and eventual acceptance and advocacy may be under the guise of an apostolic or Christocentric method of interpretation. Soon, there will be a full court press to a full throated embrace of the Quadriga by Evangelicals and some Reformed scholars may fall under this spell themselves.

It’s one thing to appreciate the Quadriga’s general openness to the Bible’s polyvalence. It’s quite another thing to locate the Bible’s polyvalence, as the Quadriga does, in four distinct senses of Scripture. The Bible student in the pew must go beyond faddish academic deliverances found in history to critically assessing them according to Scripture itself. This is the Berean way.

What interpretive virtues must we be guided by as we read and interpret the Bible in the church?
Gird your loins as we weigh the Quadriga and find it wanting!

The literal sense of Scripture gives way to no other sense of Scripture because there is no other sense than the literal sense of Scripture. Sorry, not sorry, Quadrigans! It's time for Evangelicals and Confessional Protestants to retrieve its rejection!

Some things are so fundamentally flawed, coming up with alternatives should be easy. Some things are so fundamentally flawless, coming up with refutations should be impossible. The Quadriga is not hermeneutically viable. Never was. Never shall be. That's what makes its treatment with kid gloves by some academics, pastors, and their young seminarian acolytes a contra-confessional anomaly. Soon, there will be a full court press hailing its hermeneutical virtues as simply expressions of Biblical assumptions and sensibilities.

Litera gesta docet,
quid credas allegoria;
moralis quid agas;
quo tenda anagogia

But the question is simple: is the pre-critical quadriga drawn from or imposed on the Scriptures? If the former, it is legitimate. If the latter, it is eisegesis. These two are not the same. These two possibilities are not compatible. Neither is confessing Scripture's single sense and its manifold sense. Our Lord Himself states that His words are spirit and life, thus refuting the dualistic bifurcation between the literal and spiritual senses. The Quadriga must be terminated with extreme prejudice by all true believers for Biblical, rational, and confessional reasons.

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