This selection of statements were taken from the Doctor's evangelistic sermons, and might well have been taken straight out of Calvin's sermons, especially those on Isa.53. This is probably not the Lloyd-Jones that you know, but this is the authentic Martyn Lloyd-Jones, the reformed preacher who self-defined as an evangelist. Read these over and see what you think.
“But under this preaching, they were brought low and saw what fools they had been. How blind! How ignorant! How dull! Pitting their little minds against God, crucifying the very Son of God himself, and the Saviour of the world.”
“The world denies him – denies him as the Son of God, denies him as the Lamb of God, denies him as the Saviour who shed his blood that the world might be forgiven.”
“Men delivered him up to death, but the message of the gospel is that God delivered him up to death, for us all.”
“The world has rejected him because it had despised him. It had said, ‘Is it possible that the Saviour of the world can be just a carpenter, especially one who comes out of a place called Nazareth?’”
“The despised one is the Lord of glory and the Saviour of the world.”
“He is the Saviour of the world, Jn.4:42.”
“As you look at the world, as you look at your own life, as you look at history, as you read his word, are you still ignorant – of God, of your immortal soul, and, in between, of God’s own Son, Jesus of Nazareth, the Saviour of the world.”
“Do you realise that you killed the Prince of life, the Son of God, the Saviour of the world?"
“He, in and of himself, and alone, is the Saviour of the world.”
“Say, ‘Yes, he is then only one, he is the Saviour of the world, and he is my Saviour.’”
“It is God who sent his Son into the world, it is God who sent him to the cross, it is God who ‘laid on him the iniquities of us all,’ Isa.53:6. It is God who has taken your sins and put them on him and punished them in him and is offering you a free pardon; it is God who has done it.”
This is a small selection of quotations from Dr D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones taken from his evangelistic sermons and which are spread over his at least four decades of Christian ministry. The Christian public ought to be grateful to the Banner of Truth Trust in Edinburgh for making this material widely available.
The impression has been given that Lloyd-Jones believed in the doctrine of 'limited atonement,' propounded by Beza and Owen. Neither he, nor his dear wife, Bethan, believed this, and he certainly never preached it.
Would that reformed men today believed what Lloyd-Jones believed about the atonement and God's way of reconciliation.
But what characterises him especially is that he was a man of the Word, a Gospel preacher.
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