Martyn Lloyd-Jones: Repost

6/3/2014 original post date

I'm copying this page from this website, though part of me debates doing this. Why? Because there is a risk in people reading these quotes and thinking they know the depth of Martyn Lloyd-Jones' theological devotion and wisdom, which would be a TERRIBLE thing since there is so much to be learned and gained from this servant of the Lord! Not only was the man a devoted Christian pastor, he was a brilliant medical doctor before going in to ministry. While I do not share all of his views, I heartily wish more Christians would read his books (I'm STILL reading Studies in the Sermon on the Mount) or download his sermons from the MLJ Trust website. So many of us fall into the modern, American idea of Christianity, which is far from biblical Christianity. We go to church and Sunday School for a sociological exercise; we like to listen to ourselves talk rather than a teacher who has spent hours each week studying the information; we think our opinions or experiences are as valuable as a man or woman called to impart wisdom and the ways of God to us--even requesting they stop imparting instruction; we focus so heavily on having fun together that we miss what it is to suffer for the Gospel.

We must be vigilant, lest we think we're in a solid Christian organization only to find they readily allow Mormons, evolutionists, and Catholics in, all the while promoting it as like-minded. "Community" is the buzz-word of the age, and I really think we need to carefully define what that means, and what we want, when we go looking for it.

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Martyn Lloyd-Jones Quotes

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       Martyn Lloyd-Jones
1899-1981

David Martyn Lloyd-Jones was a Welsh Protestant minister and preacher who was influential in the Reformed wing of the British evangelical movement in the 20th century. For almost 30 years, he was the minister of Westminster Chapel in London.

Lloyd-Jones was strongly opposed to the liberal theology that had become a part of many Christian denominations, regarding it as aberrant. He disagreed with the broad church approach and encouraged evangelical Christians (particularly Anglicans) to leave their existing denominations, taking the view that true Christian fellowship was only possible amongst those who shared common convictions regarding the nature of the faith.

Martyn Lloyd-Jones on:

Why believe the devil instead of believing God? Rise up and realize the truth about yourself - that all the past has gone, and you are one with Christ, and all your sins have been blotted out once and for ever. O let us remember that it is sin to doubt God's Word. It is sin to allow the past, which God has dealt with, to rob us of our joy and our usefulness in the present and in the future.    Topics: Believing Source: Spiritual Depression - Its Causes and its Cures, 1965, p. 76 I am in Christ; he is the Head of the body. There is an intimate organic relationship. So John Ryland puts the logical question, 'While Christ is rich' - he is the Lord of glory, the Lord of everything - 'While Christ is rich, can I be poor?' Beloved Christian people, there is something wrong somewhere, is there not? We are in him, we belong to him, he is our Head, we are his people and he is so rich - "The unsearchable riches of Christ" - so how can we be poor?    Topics: Christ To dwell on the past simply causes failure in the present. While you are sitting down and bemoaning the past and regretting all the things you have not done, you are crippling yourself and preventing yourself from working in the present. Is that Christianity? Of course it is not.    Topics: Christianity, Failure Source: Spiritual Depression - Its Causes and its Cures, 1965, p. 83 I have always found it depressing to listen to the kind of people who, whenever you meet them, will always for sure tell you the story of their conversion many years ago. They tell you that story every time. I have known people do exactly the same thing with revival. There is always something about an initial experience that is remarkable and outstanding. And a time of revival is so amazing and wonderful that it is not surprising that people go on talking about it. But, if they give the impression that they have had nothing since that wonderful experience, that ever after they have been walking through a wilderness, and traveling through a desert, then it is absolutely wrong. Their idea of the Christian life is of a dramatic experience, perhaps at the outset, after which they just trudge along, living on the strength of that and partly keeping their eye turned backwards as they go forward.    Topics: Christianity It is not a true Gospel that gives us the impression that the Christian life is easy, and that there are no problems to be faced. That is not the New Testament teaching. The New Testament is most alarming at first, indeed terrifying, as it shows us the problems by which we are confronted. But follow it-go on! It does not stop halfway, it goes on to this addition, this second half; and here it shows us the way in which, though that is the truth concerning the battle, we can be enabled to wage it, and not only to wage it, but to triumph in it. It shows us that we are meant to be "more than conquerors."    Topics: Christianity There are other people who are prepared to argue and discuss and even change their opinion, but they do not do anything about it. The evangelical, however, is a man who acts on his convictions. There would never have been Protestantism if this were not true.    Topics: Christians Source: What is an Evangelical? The Banner of Truth Trust, 1992, p. 53.