Category Archives: D. Martin Lloyd-Jones

The Nature of Love

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Now this is the very nature of love. It must express itself; it is always active; and if our love does not do that, I say it is not true love. You see, the real trouble with the person who is seated there in the study reading beautiful poems or books about love and who feels that he is controlled by it and that he is a fine Christian is this: What is really happening to that person is that he is simply in love with himself, because he appreciates these elevating thoughts. He is loving himself because he thinks he is in love. He has turned in upon himself, and that is the very antithesis to love; love does not look at itself – it is absorbed in the object of its love.

D. Martin Lloyd-Jones, Love Rules: The Ten Commandments for the 21st Century

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God Vindicates Himself in Our Salvation

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Salvation is not ultimately for our sake; but for the glory of God.  God in salvation is vindicating Himself, and manifesting Himself to the whole universe.  He is displaying His everlasting and eternal glory.  Hence His purpose cannot and will not fail.

D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones from  Romans – The Perseverance Of The Saints

How Is the Church To Be Evangelistic?

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In the church today the tendency is to look at the world all the time and to see the tragedy of the world.  That is perfectly right, of course; the church is to be evangelistic.  But the question is, how is the church to be evangelistic?  And I contend that what the New Testament itself tells us, is that the church is most successful evangelistically when she herself is as she ought to be.  Why are the masses of the people outside of the church?  I do not hesitate to say that the reason is that they fail to see in us anything that attracts them, anything that creates within them a desire to receive what we have, or anything that rebukes them and condemns them for their way of living.  Not that we should necessarily put that into words, but it should be seen.

Martin Lloyd-Jones in sermon titled The Possibilities of the Christian Life

Worship and the Knowledge of God

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Knowledge of God comes before any particular blessing that we may desire from Him. The goal of our seeking and all our worship and all our endeavour should not be to have a particular experience; it should not be to petition certain blessings; it should be to know God Himself — the Giver not the gift, the source and fount of every blessing, not the blessing itself.

Martin Lloyd-Jones, Great Doctrines of the Bible

The Preacher’s Prayer

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Always respond to every impulse to pray. The impulse to pray may come when you are reading or when you are battling with a text. I would make an absolute law of this – always obey such an impulse. Where does it come from? It is the work of the Holy Spirit; it is a part of the meaning of ‘Work out your salvation with fear and trembling, for it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure’ (Phil 2:12-13). This often leads to some of the most remarkable experiences in the life of the minister. So never resist, never postpone it, never push it aside because you are busy. Give yourself to it, yield to it; and you will find not only that you have not been wasting time with respect to the matter with which you are dealing but that actually it has helped you greatly in that respect. You will experience an ease and a facility in understanding what you were reading, in thinking, in ordering matter for a sermon, in writing, in everything which is quite astonishing. Such a call to prayer must never be regarded as a distraction; always respond to it immediately, and thank God if it happens to you frequently.

Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Preaching and Preachers, p. 170-171

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