What difference does it make?

Thats what some would say when it comes to teaching a text different ways . As I have found out it makes a lot of difference.
To prove this point , I found two sermons at random, from a same passage, Zechariah , from two individuals I am not familiar with. I had to be unbias in proving this here by not selecting people I favor and do not favor. It wasn't too hard to find other examples. 
I have found that a great way to come to truth is to compare differing views and find out as to the place they differ. This has truly helped me over the years. 

This first example is from one who teaches verse by verse , the second is not. It becomes clear after hearing both , one is left with a completly different sense of things, its hard to explain. Its best to leave the hearer as to make up their own minds as too which one is truth and why.

Listen to this first and ask yourself when finished if you have a clearer understanding.

http://www.generationword.com/audio_series/zechariah.html

then listen to this and ask the same

http://www.sermonaudio.com/sermoninfo.asp?m=t&s=122403123337

It doesn't take a rocket scientist to see the difference. If people are ok with interpretations of a scripture that comes from the mind of a man alone than I guess that will have to be ok. But to say these two sermons are the same  by way of portraying what Gods Word says obviously puts that one in serious denial.
It boggles the mind how Christians blindly accept whatever comes at them.

Whatever we may or may not think of any one person, does not take play in this.All that matters is whats said and thats something many people have a problem with.  Joe Morecraft thinks Zechariah is giving us basic principles of christian living when nowhere in the text does it say this so I can only conclude he made this up in his mind. He read the passage but that was as far as it went. So many, do this. Read a text and that's the last you'll hear of it.

Galyn Wiemers went thru the passage word for word vrs by vrs. Whether I agree with all he said is another matter. At least he gave me the oppurtunity to do so. 

I have compared many many sermons to where I can now spot,  in an instant, law based preaching. 
Law based preaching, or sermons laced with things you should "do" to be a "better" christian, has the hearer of it defeated by the time they get home. Topical preaching and or drawn out series on selected passages is much like the whip cream on a banana split while never getting to the actual ice cream. 

In this day and age where words no longer have meaning, to stray from the scriptures is not a good idea. People no longer take in information as once did long ago. Staying closer to a scripture is vital in todays world . 
People cant spell hermeneutics let alone consider its meaning, so fast talkers can get away with much.

The biggest obstacle for the one who wants to read there entire Bible thru, in context from there church, will come from other believers. You'll be labeled criticizer or judgmental, even heretical, you have no joy.. The list is endless as to what you'll be labeled as. 

I've often pondered that over the last 8 years. One would think that a fellow believer who wants to go deeper in the Word, verse by verse, would thrill most church leaders. 

I guess my passion and thoughts go out to any frustrated believers but there not sure why. Upon the day you decide your gonna read God's Word in context, you'll soon discover that the Bible is not some self help book and all that law and works you've been weekly challenged to do in order to be a better christian,?  Turns out, the best you can achieve in this life is filthy rags. 

The subject of good works has become so confusing to the defeated christian that by the time they realize that these good works can afford them rewards in heaven, they just can't believe such a thing. 

All one has to do to see this is ask themselves, why, why why why, does my pastor have to tell me endlessly, how I should be living? Week after week, given the same repackaged (from a different scripture text) "to do"  list. 

My challenge to any frustrated believer, before leaving where you attend, just take whatever text your in, find a good verse by verse on the same text, mind you, not one where the text gets put in one's thinking (eisegesis, or making "u"  the subject) but one where the teacher begins with the text and pulls out what it says (Exegesis)  

What it does for me is force myself to ask the question, am I going to believe what man says God said or am I going to belive what God actually said.
We can't have both.