{"id":1254,"date":"2012-07-21T15:24:52","date_gmt":"2012-07-21T15:24:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aletheiabaptistministries.org\/Blog\/new-testament-heralds-july-2012\/"},"modified":"2014-01-13T07:27:02","modified_gmt":"2014-01-13T07:27:02","slug":"new-testament-heralds-july-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/aletheiabaptistministries.org\/Blog\/new-testament-heralds-july-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"New Testament Heralds"},"content":{"rendered":"

P<\/span>erhaps the most seldom used title in the Bible for the minister is \u201cPreacher.\u201d\u00a0 Though the English word \u201cPreacher\u201d appears four times, one time (Rom. 10:14) is actually a verb, and another (2 Pet. 2:5) refers to Noah, an Old Testament character.\u00a0 So the title \u201cPreacher,\u201d referring to the New Testament minister is only used by the Apostle Paul to describe himself.\u00a0 Once in 1 Timothy 2:7 and again in 2 Timothy 1:11, Paul says that ordained him to be a preacher.<\/span><\/p>\n

The job of a herald was a duty-oriented job.\u00a0 He was employed by a king to announce what the king gave him.\u00a0 He could not alter the announcement to fit his own whims.\u00a0 It was the message of the king and it must be delivered exactly as it was given.\u00a0 The herald was not a Groucho Marx who used to say, \u201cThose are my principles! And if you don\u2019t like them . . . Well, I have others.\u201d\u00a0 No, these were the king\u2019s principles.<\/span><\/p>\n

The disciples were often asked to perform tasks like a herald.\u00a0 All four gospels include the story of the triumphal entry when Jesus commanded two of the disciples to go into Jerusalem and untie someone else\u2019s donkey and bring it to Jesus.\u00a0 If the owner asked why they were taking his donkey, they were to reply with the exact words of Jesus:\u00a0 \u201cThe Master has need of them.\u201d\u00a0 Mark records that the two disciples \u201csaid unto them even as Jesus had commanded: and they let them go\u201d (Mk. 11:6).\u00a0 The king\u2019s words would be the authority for the herald\u2019s words.\u00a0 A similar story is that of Ananias in Acts 9 when he was commanded to go to Saul and put his hand on him and call him \u201cbrother Saul.\u201d\u00a0 He did exactly as Jesus commanded (after initially objecting) and everything went exactly as the Lord said it would.<\/span><\/p>\n

The word \u00a0<\/i>kerux <\/i>appears only three times as a proper noun (\u201cpreacher\u201d), but it appears a number of times as the action (\u00a0<\/i>kerusso<\/i>, \u201cpreaching\u201d) and sometimes as the message (kerugma<\/i>, \u201cthe thing preached\u201d).\u00a0 Kittel\u2019s Theological dictionary devotes 35 pages to its definition.\u00a0 There are some clear observations:\u00a0 1) Every king had one.\u00a0 It was the common means of getting his message to the people.\u00a0 2) They were untouchable.\u00a0 If someone attacked the messenger, he would suffer punishment as if he had attacked the king himself.\u00a0 3) They were sworn to exactness.\u00a0 Gerhard Friedrich, writing the article in Kittel\u2019s, says, \u201cIt is demanded then, that they deliver their message as it is given to them.\u00a0 The essential point about the report which they give is that it does not originate with them.\u00a0 Behind it stands a higher power.\u00a0 The herald does not express his won views.\u00a0 He is the spokesman for his master.\u201d1<\/sup><\/span><\/p>\n

According to Kittel\u2019s, the Greeks recognized three heralds:\u00a0 1) Hermes was the interpreter of the gods.\u00a0 In Lystra (Acts 14), Paul was called Hermes (Mercurius) \u201cbecause he was the chief speaker\u201d (Ac. 14:12).\u00a0 2) Birds were considered messengers of the gods, especially the rooster who announced the new day and various watches of the night.\u00a0 3) The philosophers were considered heralds and called \u201cmessengers\u201d with the word angelos <\/i>or \u201cangel.\u201d\u00a0 This is why the New Testament pastors can be called \u201cangels\u201d and it was understood as heralds.\u00a0 Paul wrote to the Galatians, \u201cyou received me as an angel of God\u201d (Gal. 4:14).<\/span><\/p>\n

In the book of 2 Timothy, Paul uses all three forms of the word herald.\u00a0 In 1:11 he writes of the kerux<\/i>, the preacher.\u00a0 In 4:21 he writes of the kerusso<\/i>, the preaching.\u00a0 In 4:17 he writes of the kerugma<\/i>, the message preached.\u00a0 This is the only book of the Bible where all three appear.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Preacher <\/span>(The Messenger)<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

The apostle Paul tells Timothy that he was \u201cappointed\u201d to this high office by the Lord.\u00a0 This is the word Jesus used when he said to Paul, \u201cI have set <\/i>thee to be a light of the Gentiles\u201d (Acts 13:47).\u00a0 Again, Paul says that he was \u201callowed of God to be put in trust <\/i>with the gospel\u201d (2 Thes. 2:4).<\/span><\/p>\n

First, God\u2019s herald doesn\u2019t have to be a great man, but he does have to be a man of God.\u00a0 \u201cBut thou, O man of God, flee these things; and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness\u201d (1 Tim. 6:11).\u00a0 Great men never wanted to be great, they just wanted to be men of God and God used them in great ways.\u00a0 Our ministerial schools cannot teach young men to be great without first teaching them to be men of God.\u00a0 Vance Havner wrote, \u201cWhat our forefathers were without knowing it, we want to\u00a0 know without being it.\u201d2<\/sup> Savonarola said, \u201cIn the primitive church the chalices were of wood and the prelates were of gold; today the prelates are of wood and the chalices are of gold.\u201d3<\/sup><\/span><\/p>\n

A tourist group, visiting birth places of famous people, passed through a European village.\u00a0 One of the tourists asked a local man, \u201cWere there any famous people born in this village?\u201d\u00a0 \u201cNo,\u201d the man replied, \u201cJust babies.\u201d\u00a0 John Bunyan was born into a tinker\u2019s home, one of the lowest status occupations of the time.\u00a0 But Bunyan became one of the most powerful preachers in England.\u00a0 \u201cJohn Owen heard him preach, probably at Zoar Chapel, and when King Charles expressed wonder that a man of his [Owen\u2019s] learning could bear to listen to the \u2018prate\u2019 of a tinker, he answered, that he would gladly give all his learning for this tinker\u2019s power.\u201d4<\/sup> Bunyan\u2019s autobiography is titled \u201cGrace Abounding To The Chief of Sinners,\u201d not to the Chief Executive Officer.<\/span><\/p>\n

Second, God\u2019s herald must have the mind of Christ, not the mind of the world.\u00a0 Paul was insistent of this qualification for a minister of Christ.\u00a0 \u201cFor God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind\u201d (2 Tim. 1:7).\u00a0 \u201cFor who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ\u201d (1 Cor. 2:16).\u00a0 It was Demas, who forsook him, who had the mind of the world (2 Tim. 4:10). Jannes and Jambres were \u201cmen of corrupt minds\u201d (2 Tim. 3:8).\u00a0 Friedrich says, \u201cHeralds adopt the mind of those who commission them, and act with the plenipotentiary [full power] authority of their masters.\u00a0 It is with this authority that the kerux<\/em> conducts diplomatic business.\u201d5<\/sup><\/span><\/p>\n

John describes the preacher with the worldly mind contrasted with the preacher with the mind of Christ.\u00a0 \u201cThey are of the world: therefore speak they of the world, and the world heareth them.\u00a0 We are of God: he that knoweth God heareth us; he that is not of God heareth not us.\u00a0 Hereby know we the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error\u201d (1 John 4:5-6).\u00a0 Too many of God\u2019s ministers are busy winning themselves to the world rather than winning the world to Christ.<\/span><\/p>\n

A.C. Dixon, who served in both Spurgeon\u2019s Tabernacle and Moody Memorial Church, wrote:<\/span><\/p>\n

Every preacher is, or ought to be, a prophet of God who preaches as God bids him without regard to results. When he becomes conscious of the fact that he is a leader in his church or denomination, he has reached a crisis in his ministry. Shall he be a prophet of God or a leader of men? If he decides only to be a prophet insofar as he can without losing his leadership, he becomes a diplomat and ceases to be a prophet at all. If he decides to maintain his leadership at all costs he may easily fall to the level of a politician who pulls the wires to gain or hold a position. He who would prophesy or speak forth the message of God is careful of none of these things but only that he shall speak the message that God gives him, even though he be in a lonesome minority.6<\/sup><\/span><\/p>\n

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The Preaching <\/span>(The Messages)<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cPreach the Word!\u201d (2 Tim. 4:2).\u00a0 Here Paul exhorts Timothy to action.\u00a0 Now he is to pay attention to the way in which the message goes forth.\u00a0 \u201cHerald the Word.\u201d\u00a0 This is the way in which the prophets of old delivered their message.\u00a0 \u201cCry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and show my people their transgressions, and the house of Jacob their sins\u201d (Isa. 58:1).\u00a0 This is one methodology that we cannot afford to change.<\/span><\/p>\n

First, the urgency of the situation demands it.\u00a0 It is a command to preachers of the gospel.\u00a0 \u201cBe instant,\u201d Paul says.\u00a0 The kerux <\/i>must always be ready with the kerusso<\/i>.\u00a0 Think what you will of Charles Finney\u2019s evangelism, but in his biography he is quoted as describing his preaching style.<\/span><\/p>\n

You breast yourself to the work like a giant. You open the attack with Jupiter\u2019s thunderbolt. You take the doctrine for a damning fact\u2014declare you know it\u2014raise your voice\u2014lift high your hand\u2014bend forward your trunk\u2014fasten your staring eyes upon the auditors\u2014declare that they know it to be God\u2019s truth; that they stand upon the brink of hell\u2019s gaping pit of fire and brimstone . . . unless they repent forthwith.7<\/sup><\/span><\/p>\n

Paul reminded the Corinthians, \u201cFor we are not as many, which corrupt the word of God: but as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God speak we in Christ\u201d (2 Cor. 2:17).<\/span><\/p>\n

Second, the message of the King guides it.\u00a0 It must be \u201cthe Word\u201d which the herald proclaims.\u00a0 When we decide to change it to fit the situation, we have betrayed our King.\u00a0 D.L. Moody said, \u201cWhen a minister or a messenger of Christ begins to change the message because he thinks it is not exactly what it ought to be, and thinks he is wiser than God, God just dismisses that man.\u201d8<\/sup><\/span><\/p>\n

By now we all recognize that this is a postmodern society.\u00a0 We are finding it more and more difficult to speak the message of our King in a straightforward manner.\u00a0 Our audience has a hard time accepting anything without a \u201chermeneutic of suspicion.\u201d\u00a0 They can say one thing and do another.\u00a0 They can say one thing and believe another.\u00a0 They can even say one thing and intend another, and they believe all of us are using language and media the same way!\u00a0 Benjamin Woolley, a postmodern writer, said, \u201cArtificial reality is the authentic postmodern condition, and virtual reality its definitive technological expression . . . . The artificial is the authentic.\u201d9<\/sup> As ministers of Christ, and as heralds of the gospel, we must not let our preaching fall to such a low estate.\u00a0 Paul said, But as God is true, our word toward you was not yea and nay . . . . For all the promises of God in him are yea, and in him Amen, unto the glory of God\u201d (2 Cor. 1:18, 20).<\/span><\/p>\n

The Preached <\/span>(The Message Itself)<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThat by me the preaching [kerugma<\/i>) might be fully known, and that all the Gentiles might hear\u201d (2 Tim. 4:17).\u00a0 Here Paul admonishes Timothy to guard the message that is preached.\u00a0 This form of the word is our English word \u201ckerygma.\u201d\u00a0 Webster\u2019s dictionary to this day still defines this word as \u201cThe apostolic preaching that Jesus is the Christ.\u201d\u00a0 In the great resurrection chapter of First Corinthians 15, Paul uses this form and the verb form:\u00a0 \u201cNow if Christ be preached (kerusso<\/i>)\u00a0 that he rose from the dead, how say some among you that there is no resurrection of the dead?\u00a0 But if there be no resurrection of the dead, then is Christ not risen: and if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching (kerugma<\/i>) vain, and your faith is also vain (1 Cor. 15:12-14).\u00a0 You can have all the action and commotion in the world, but if you\u2019ve lost the content, it is in vain.<\/span><\/p>\n

Today we play with symbolism over substance to our detriment.\u00a0 We are worshiping worship as a substitute for a real Holy Spirit experience.\u00a0 We have faith in faith rather than the faith once for all delivered to the saints.\u00a0 We have a kerux <\/i>who is busy with the kerusso<\/i>, but we are quickly losing the most important thing\u2014the kerugma<\/i>!\u00a0 Three things are certain from this final chapter of Paul\u2019s life.<\/span><\/p>\n

First, when you stand by the truth, the Lord will stand by you.\u00a0 \u201cNotwithstanding the Lord stood with me and strengthened me; that by me the preaching [kerugma<\/i>] might be fully known\u201d (2 Tim. 4:17).\u00a0 Though all his friends had forsaken him, Paul was not forsaken.\u00a0 When Paul stood at Gallio\u2019s bema seat in Corinth, the Lord appeared and said to him, \u201cBe not afraid, but speak and hold not thy peace: for I am with thee\u201d (Acts 18:9-10).\u00a0 When he stood before Herod\u2019s bema seat in Caesarea, the Lord appeared and said to him, \u201cBe of good cheer Paul: for as thou hast testified of me in Jerusalem, so must thou bear witness also in Rome\u201d (Acts 23:11).\u00a0 Now before Caesar\u2019s bema seat the Lord is there to deliver him from the mouth of the lion.\u00a0 But Paul was most concerned with appearing before Christ\u2019s bema seat, \u201cWherefore we labor, that, whether present or absent, we may be accepted of him\u201d (2 Cor. 5:9).<\/span><\/p>\n

Second, when you stand by the truth, the lost will know they should stand with you.\u00a0 By the faithful proclamation of the truth, the kerugma <\/i>\u201cmight be fully known, and that all the Gentiles might hear\u201d (2 Tim. 4:17).\u00a0 There was no \u201cstealth\u201d in Paul\u2019s presentation.\u00a0 He did not coax them in with one method and then sometime down the road reveal to them what he was really all about.\u00a0 Paul prayed for Philemon \u201cthat the communication of thy faith may become effectual by the acknowledging of every good thing which is in you in Christ Jesus\u201d (Phile. 6).\u00a0 As the old song goes:\u00a0 \u201cTell me the story softly, with earnest tones and grave; remember I\u2019m the sinner whom Jesus came to save.\u00a0 Tell me the story always, if you would really be, in any time of trouble, a comforter to me.\u201d\u00a0 That is the need of the world.<\/span><\/p>\n

Third, when you stand by the truth, the Lord will deliver you.\u00a0 \u201cAnd I was delivered out of the mouth of the Lion\u201d (vs. 18).\u00a0 The Lord may deliver His saints in the way He chooses.\u00a0 It may be by life or by death.\u00a0 Either way, He will not let us be devoured by the Lion.\u00a0 Once when Vance Havner was old he was speaking to ministerial students.\u00a0 He described his busy schedule even in the autumn of his life.\u00a0 A student responded to him, \u201cWhy, if we kept that schedule all of the time it would kill us!\u201d\u00a0 Havner replied, \u201cWho said you can\u2019t die?\u201d\u00a0 Is not heaven the greatest deliverance from the Lion?\u00a0 \u201cAccording to my earnest expectation and my hope, that in nothing I shall be ashamed, but that with all boldness, as always, so now also Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether it be by life, or by death\u201d (Phil. 1:20).<\/span><\/p>\n

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And so . . . .<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

In his book, Twice Told Tales<\/i>, Nathaniel Hawthorne writes of the Spring of 1689 and the tensions that had developed in the new country over control from England.\u00a0 It was a time when \u201cthe Puritans were all dead, and the Methodists had not been born.\u201d\u00a0 Sir Edmond Andros, the king\u2019s hand-picked governor marched his troops through the streets of Boston, slowly approaching the colonists who shrunk from the fearsome militia.\u00a0 The pastors stood protected by the people and looked piously from behind the cover.<\/span><\/p>\n

The rightful governor, Simon Bradstreet, stood far away near the court house steps and gave instructions to the people not to provoke the situation.\u00a0 Just then, \u201cthe figure of an ancient man, with eye, the face, the attitude of command appeared on the street, dressed in the old Puritan garb.\u00a0 \u2018Stand,\u2019 the old warrior-saint commanded.\u00a0 The solemn, yet warlike peal of that voice, fit either to rule a host in battle or be raised to God in prayer, was irresistible.\u00a0 The advancing line stood still. . . Who was this Gray Champion?\u201d Hawthorne asked.\u00a0 \u201cI have heard that whenever the descendents of the Puritans are to show the spirit of their sires, the old man appears again.\u201d10<\/sup> May the preachers of the gospel be ever so vigilant.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Notes:<\/span><\/p>\n

1. Gerhard Friedrich, \u201cKerux,\u201d <\/span>Kittel\u2019s Theological Dictionary of the New Testament<\/span>, vol. III (Grand Rapids:\u00a0 Eerdman\u2019s, 1978) 687-688.<\/span><\/p>\n

2. Vance Havner, personal collection of quotes.<\/span><\/p>\n

3. Savonarola, \u201cOn the degeneration of the church\u201d <\/span>Orations: Homer to Mckinley<\/span>, vol. III (New York: Collier and Son, 1902) 1281.<\/span><\/p>\n

4. Thomas Armitage, <\/span>Baptist History<\/span>, vol. I (Watertown: Maranatha Baptist Press, 1976) 479.<\/span><\/p>\n

5. Friedrich, 688.<\/span><\/p>\n

6. Quoted by Vance Havner, <\/span>In Times Like These <\/span>(Old Tappan:\u00a0 Fleming Revell, 1969) 103.<\/span><\/p>\n

7. Charles Hambrick-Stowe, <\/span>Charles G. Finney and the Spirit of American Evangelicalism<\/span> (Grand Rapids:\u00a0 Eerdman\u2019s, 1966) 135.<\/span><\/p>\n

8. D.L. Moody, <\/span>Spiritual Power <\/span>(Chicago:\u00a0 Moody Press, 1997) 14.<\/span><\/p>\n

9. Quoted by Douglas Groothuis, <\/span>The Soul in CyberSpace<\/span> (Grand Rapids:\u00a0 Baker Books, 1997) 27.<\/span><\/p>\n

10. Nathaniel Hawthorne, \u201cThe Gray Champion,\u201d <\/span>Twice Told Tales<\/span> (New York: Modern, 2001) 3-10.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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