Hear Dat Word SON!!!

        Yo bro, homie, gee, doggs of Worship class. For class today we read in gospel worship of the ordinance of hearing the Word as worship. Now granted this ordinance is much more enjoyable when the Word "preached" is (to put it simply) good! How can we as new covenant believers who have the Spirit not want to hear a message preached deeply, under the unction of the Holy Spirit to the glory of God. This is something that seems to be somewhat foreign to us American believers, and even BBC students. Sure we get a lot preaching, some good, some merely moralistic and principled. But when was the last time we heard true spirit filled preaching!? When was the last time we heard somebody go wild when heralding the beauty of the person of Jesus Christ as revealed in the Gospel?
         I love the definition of preaching by Dr. Martin Lloyd Jones. He simply put it that preaching is "logic on fire". I love it. It would be bad to separate the two obviously. We don't want merely just biblical logic, that would be merely teaching; which has it place. And we don't want merely just "fire" because if we have just "fire" then we will get a really "cool" sounding message that might get our emotions going a bit, but the next day we will be unchanged and no more conformed to Christ's image than the day before. That is obviously useless. So I think when we talk about the ordinance of hearing God's Word it would presuppose that we are hearing true preaching.
         And as Jeremiah Burroughs put it on page (in my addition) 207 we should have an excited expectation to hear God's Word, and that we should have a desire for it. "When it comes to hear the Word, come with a longing desire after the Word. Come with an appetite for it" (pg 207). Jeremiah Burroughs then applies 1 Peter 2:2 to this assertion. "As Newborn babes desire the sincere milk of the Word that ye may grow thereby." Babies "desire" milk in such a measure that they will die without it. This is the attitude we should have when going to heard God's Word preached. We should have such a desire that we would be empty, or even distraught without it. we should have an attitude as Christians to not be able to live without hearing the Word of our God preached, and preached from a preacher that has Christ in His heart rather than Christ merely in his head.