ASL Expansion Techniques

1. ASL Expansion Techniques SBCD 2010 Lancaster, PA

2. Negation • “You shall not surely die” (Genesis 3:4). • “I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ” (Romans 1:16). • Xerxes did not know that Esther was a Jew (Esther 2:10). • “Fear not for behold I bring you good tidings” (Luke 2:10). • Ruth wouldn’t leave Naomi (Ruth 1:16). • “God sent not his son into the world to condemn the world” (John 3:17).

3. Object-Subject-Verb • David killed Goliath. • Jesus fed 5,000 people. • Moses crossed the Red Sea. • God so loved the world. • Jacob gave Joseph a coat of many colors.

4. Passive Voice • Naaman was healed of leprosy when he dipped seven times in the Jordan River (2 Kings 5:14). • “It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone’” (Matthew 4:4). • “Blessed are they which are persecuted” (Matthew 5:10). • “He was bruised for our iniquity” (Isaiah 53:5). • “To everyone who has will be given and from him who does not have, even what he has will be taken away from him” (Luke 19:26).

5. Contrasting • “As a sheep before her shearers is silent” (Isaiah 53:7). • Before the throne there was a sea of glass like crystal (Revelation 4:6). • “God saw everything that He had made, and it was very good” (Genesis 1:31). • “Train up a child in the way he should go, and she he is old he will not depart from it” (Proverbs 22:6). • “I give unto them eternal life, and they shall never perish: (John 10:28).

6. Faceting • “In my father’s house are many mansions” (John 14:2). • “Her rival also provoked her severely to make her miserable (I Samuel 1:6). • “The man was clothed and in his right mind (Luke 8:35). • “Peace that passes understanding” (Philippians 4:7). • “The Lord is clothed with majesty (Psalm 93:1).

7. Reiteration • “I will arise and go to my father” (Luke 15:18). • “Have you considered my servant Job?” (Job 1:8). • Anyone who goes to the king and has not been summoned could be put to death (Esther 4:11). • “Seven days you must eat unleavened bread” (Leviticus 23:6). • “Joseph’s brothers hated him even more” (Genesis 37:5).

8. 3-D space • Layout of the tabernacle (Exodus 26). • “All nations will be gathered before Him, and He will separate them one from another as a shepherd divides his sheep from the goats. He will set the sheep on His right hand but the goats on the left” (Matthew 25:32-33). • “They served him by himself, the brothers by themselves, and the Egyptians who ate with him by themselves, because Egyptians could not eat with Hebrews” (Genesis 43:32).

9. 3-D Space • “At his gate was laid a beggar named Lazarus, covered with sores and longing to eat what fell from the rich man’s table. Even the dogs came and licked his sores. The time came when the beggar died and the angels carried him to Abraham’s side. The rich man also died and was buried. In hell, where he was in torment, he looked up and saw Abraham far away, with Lazarus by his side” (Luke 1620-23).

10. 3-D Space • “Is not the whole land before you? Let’s part, if you go to the left, I’ll go to the right; if you go to the right, I’ll go to the left. Lot looked up and saw that the whole plain of the Jordan was well watered, like the garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt, toward Zoar. (This was before the lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.) So Lot chose for himself the whole plain of the Jordan and set out toward the east. The two men parted company” (Genesis 13:9-12).

11. Explaining By Example • “Everything that creeps on the earth” (Genesis 1:25). • “We will not give them any of the spoil that we have recovered” (I Samuel 30:22). • “Let there be lights in the firmament” (Genesis 1:14). • “Every male that opens the womb shall be called holy to the Lord” (Exodus 13:2). • “Be careful not to do your acts of righteousness before men” (Matthew 6:1).

12. Describe Then Do • “He spat on the ground and made clay of the spittle, and he spread the clay upon the eyes of the blind man” (John 9:6). • “Jesus called in the loud voice, ‘Lazarus, come out!’ The dead man came out wrapped with strips of linen and a clothe around his face” John 11:43-44).

13. Describe Then Do • “Then Samson reached toward the two central pillars on which the temple stood. Bracing himself against them, his right hand of the one and his left hand on the other, Samson said, ‘Let me die with the Philistines!’ Then he pushed with all his might, and down came the temple of the rulers and all the people in it” (Judges 16:29-30).

14. Describe Then Do • “Peter got out of the boat, walked on the water and came toward Jesus. But when he saw the wind, he was afraid and beginning to sink, cried out, ‘Lord save me!’ Immediately Jesus reached out his hand and caught him. ‘You of little faith,’ he said, ‘why did you doubt?” (Matthew 14:29-31).

15. Describe Then Do • “So Haman took the robe and the horse, arrayed Mordecai and led him on horseback through the city square, and proclaimed before him, ‘Thus shall it be done to the man the kind delights to honor’” (Esther 5:11).

16. Couching/Nesting/Scaffolding • “Blessed are the peacemakers” (Matthew 5:9). • “Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, clamor and evil speaking be put away from you, with all malice” (Ephesians 4:31). • “He has spoken blasphemy” (Matthew 26:65). • “I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance” (Matthew 9:13). • “One of you shall betray me” (Mark 14:18).