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Tomorrow 40 years ago, Martyn Lloyd-Jones was dying and could not speak. He wrote on a bit of paper: “Don’t pray for healing. Don’t hold me back from the glory.” Three days later he was there.

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Question: Should we as Christians always be charitable and tolerant? Listen to the answer of Martyn Lloyd-Jones!

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Queen Elizabeth and Martyn Lloyd-Jones, October 22, 1970

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Profound words of Martyn Lloyd-Jones about the phrase “Jesus loves you” and the purpose of the Law

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A sinner does not ‘decide’ for Christ; the sinner ‘flies’ to Christ in utter helplessness and despair. – Martyn Lloyd-Jones

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God has always done His greatest work through a remnant. Get rid of the notion of numbers. - Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

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You never find the Apostles announcing beforehand that they are going to hold a Healing Service in a few days’ time. Why not? Because they never knew when it was going to happen. They did not decide, and it was not within their control. – Martyn Lloyd-Jones

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You never find the apostle Paul or any other apostle commenting upon the government of the Roman Empire. – Martyn Lloyd-Jones

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I am never tired of saying that what the Church needs to do is not to organize evangelistic campaigns to attract outside people, but to begin herself to live the Christian life. – Martyn Lloyd-Jones

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“What matters is God’s love to us, not our love to God. Our love is weak and frail and fallible; it wanes and waxes, comes and goes. Thank God my salvation does not depend on me, but on God’s love to me; not upon my frail grasp of Him, but upon His strong grasp of me!”

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There is nothing new to say in a pulpit every Sunday; it is always the gospel. – Martyn Lloyd-Jones

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There is nothing the natural man hates more than to be told that he is a sinner, and that his nature is twisted and perverted. He believes in himself, and that he is a good fellow; all the teaching of psychology encourages him to believe in himself. – Martyn Lloyd-Jones

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We are not told in the Sermon on the Mount, ‘Live like this and you will become Christian’; rather we are told, ‘Because you are Christian live like this.’ – Martyn Lloyd-Jones

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There is nothing which is more insulting to the holy Name of God than to profess Him with your lips and deny Him in your life. – Martyn Lloyd-Jones

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The greatest weakness in the church today is that the servants of God keep looking over their shoulder for the approval of men. - R.C. Sproul (1939-2017)

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Do we all realize that the most important thing we have to do in this world is to prepare ourselves for eternity? – Martyn Lloyd-Jones

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We tend to think that the wrath of God must manifest itself in the form of active punishment, but here we are reminded that sometimes it reveals itself by just allowing sin to run riot. – Martyn Lloyd-Jones

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Profound words of Martyn Lloyd-Jones about the phrase “Jesus loves you” and the purpose of the Law.

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The preacher’s great difficulty is to find sufficient time for reading; it is a constant battle. – Martyn Lloyd-Jones

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Martyn Lloyd-Jones on ecumenism: “The Bible talks a great deal about the remnant.” “We’re not concerned about figures.” “Martin Luther at one point stood absolutely alone.”

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A Christian is the result of the operation of God, nothing less, nothing else. No man can make himself a Christian; God alone makes Christians. - Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

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Any man who thinks that he deserves heaven is not a Christian. But for any man who knows that he deserves hell, there is hope. Out goes all your righteousness. It is all by grace. - Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

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"I should never read the Bible in exactly the same way that I read any other book. I should start always by asking God by the Holy Spirit to enlighten me, to keep me from error and subtle dangers and to lead me into all truth. Then, having done that, I come to my Bible."

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Question: What do you think the church needs above all else today? Listen to the answer of Martyn Lloyd-Jones!

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Habakkuk looked to God and ceased to look at his difficulty. That is the true basis of spiritual peace. - Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

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The Lord has never promised His people an easy time. – Martyn Lloyd-Jones

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“What matters is God’s love to us, not our love to God. Our love is weak and frail and fallible; it wanes and waxes, comes and goes. Thank God my salvation does not depend on me, but on God’s love to me; not upon my frail grasp of Him, but upon His strong grasp of me!”

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Our greatest trouble is our ignorance of God. – Martyn Lloyd-Jones

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"The Christian is a man who says, I do not care what has happened; I do not care what may happen. I do not care what it is – atomic bombs, or anything you like. For me, nothing can ever approach in significance to the thing that happened there on the cross."

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We are in the hands of God, whether we like it or not. - Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

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Preaching politics: no impact at all!

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Do not be misled by the world, do not be captivated by it. See the rottenness, the ugliness, the foulness; and do not allow it to monopolize your time and your attention. You must see through it. Then, having, seen through it, keep yourself from it. – Martyn Lloyd-Jones

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Question: Should we as Christians always be charitable and tolerant? Listen to the answer of Martyn Lloyd-Jones!

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Today exactly 40 years ago Martyn Lloyd-Jones, the beloved Doctor, preached his last sermon

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I do not preach decisions – I preach regeneration. - Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

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We must train ourselves to hate sin. - Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

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What was the attraction of the preaching of Martyn Lloyd-Jones for young people?

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If we do not start on the common basis that the Bible is the divinely inspired, inerrant Word of God, there is no basis for a discussion. – Martyn Lloyd-Jones

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Here is a rare photo of Martyn Lloyd-Jones preaching. Yesterday it was 41 years ago he went to Glory.

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The Christian is a man who expects nothing from this world. He does not pin his hopes on it, because he knows that it is doomed. - Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

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We deserve nothing but hell. If you think you deserve heaven, take it from me you are not a Christian. - Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

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Even John Wesley, the great Arminian, did not make appeals to people to ‘come forward’. What you find so often in his Journals is something like this: ‘Preached at such and such a place. Many seemed to be deeply affected, but God alone knows how deeply.’ – Martyn Lloyd-Jones

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Once a man sees the message of the cross, he has an entirely new view of everything. - Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

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If a verse stands out and hits you and arrests you, do not go on reading. Stop immediately, and listen to it. It is speaking to you, so listen to it and speak to it. – Martyn Lloyd-Jones

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Do we all realize that the most important thing we have to do in this world is to prepare ourselves for eternity? – Martyn Lloyd-Jones

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The message of the Gospel is something that cannot be postponed, because you do not know whether you or the people will be alive even in a week’s time or even in a day’s time. ‘In the midst of life we are in death.’ – Martyn Lloyd-Jones

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The great concern of the New Testament Epistles is not about the size of the Church, it is about the purity of the Church. - Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

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“Humility is ever the greatest safeguard in the spiritual life. So when we are brought low and humbled, it is good for us; and anything that does that for us is working for our good. In this condition we begin to see a host of things we had been tending to forget.”

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Question: What do you think the church needs above all else today? Listen to the answer of Martyn Lloyd-Jones!

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Everything we do in the Christian life is easier than prayer. – Martyn Lloyd-Jones

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The incarnation would never have been necessary were it not for sin. The problem of sin is as profound as that. - Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

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Do we all realize that the most important thing we have to do in this world is to prepare ourselves for eternity? - Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

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You cannot begin to understand the problem of the modern world unless you accept the New Testament doctrine with regard to man and sin. – Martyn Lloyd-Jones

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Today we remember with gratitude God’s servant David Martyn Lloyd-Jones, who passed away 40 years ago, on March 1, 1981. “For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and Him crucified.”

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Martyn Lloyd-Jones about the message of George Whitefield: “Always preach a felt Christ!”

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“No work is so important that it must be done at the expense of your own soul. Keep your relationship with God right whatever else happens. If you keep that central, then I suggest to you that many of our problems, if not most of them, will certainly not break you.”

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My dear friends, if your position is going to depend upon what scientists may or may not say, well then I tremble for you. They have their fashions, they say one thing one day and it will be denied the next. - Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

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Question: What is the relevance of the church to the social conditions and problems? Answer Martyn Lloyd-Jones: The church has had her greatest influence upon society and social conditions when she’s been most evangelical.

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What matters is God’s love to us, not our love to God. Our love is weak and frail and fallible; it wanes and waxes, comes and goes. Thank God my salvation does not depend on me, but on God’s love to me; not upon my frail grasp of Him, but upon His strong grasp of me!

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We should never demand anything of God, never claim anything of God. Unhappily there is much teaching along that line today. When you realize who God is, you do not claim, you ‘make your requests known’. – Martyn Lloyd-Jones

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Question: Is man basically good and must the blame that he goes astray be put elsewere? For example in poverty, oppression or exploitation? Answer Martyn Lloyd-Jones: ‘They begin to talk about treatment before they’ve established the true diagnosis.’

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Today 40 years ago Westminster Chapel, London, was packed for the memorial service of Martyn Lloyd-Jones. This was the first hymn.

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Our one consuming desire always should be to know God better, to love Him more truly, and to enter as fully as we can into the truth that He has been pleased to reveal to us. – Martyn Lloyd-Jones

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Preaching politics: no impact at all!

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Our all is not enough. But He is all sufficient. - Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

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A Christian is the result of the operation of God, nothing less, nothing else. No man can make himself a Christian; God alone makes Christians. - Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

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Human beings are the most contradictory creatures on the face of the earth, on one side, brilliant in their achievements, and on the other, so often despicable in their living. Mastering the elements, they are unable to master themselves. - Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

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God does not want our opinion upon His laws. They are not to be discussed – they are to be kept. They are not even to be applauded – they are to be applied. - Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

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Men cannot pray without doctrine; they cannot go into the presence of God except ‘by the blood of Jesus’. – Martyn Lloyd-Jones

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The man whose doctrine is shaky will be shaky in his whole life. - Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

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What God is permitting in the world today is related to His great purpose for His own Church and kingdom. Let us not therefore be stumbled when we see surprising things happening in the world. Rather let us ask, ‘What is the relevance of this event to the kingdom of God?’

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We do not hesitate to state that the only hope for men is to believe the Gospel of Christ. We say so knowing full well all the talk about science and learning and culture. – Martyn Lloyd-Jones

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The preacher must be a serious man; he must never give the impression that preaching is something light or superficial or trivial. – Martyn Lloyd-Jones

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There is nothing which is more insulting to the holy Name of God than to profess Him with your lips and deny Him in your life. - Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

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There is nothing which is more insulting to the holy Name of God than to profess Him with your lips and deny Him in your life. - Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

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Next month (June 8) it is 40 years ago that Martyn Lloyd-Jones preached his last sermon. Here is a picture of that occasion.

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The test of whether someone is teaching the cross rightly or wrongly is whether it is an offence to the natural man or not. - Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

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"We have a text-book, a manual of life, that really gives us an understanding. Nobody but the Christian understands the world." "It is the Gospel, and the Gospel alone, that holds out any hope for this troubled unhappy world."

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Why is the preaching of the Gospel such an urgent matter? The answer is ‘that the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men.’ – Martyn Lloyd-Jones

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Any man who thinks that he deserves heaven is not a Christian. But for any man who knows that he deserves hell, there is hope. Out goes all your righteousness. It is all by grace. - Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

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When a man truly sees himself, he knows that nobody can say anything about him that is too bad. - Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

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Today we remember that David Martyn Lloyd-Jones passed away 42 years ago. Did you know his family dislikes the pictures of him on many book covers? He looks like he was a very stern man while they know him as a very loving (grand)father.

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God does not want our opinion upon His laws. They are not to be discussed – they are to be kept. They are not even to be applauded – they are to be applied. - Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

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If you want to be anxious about anything, be anxious about your spiritual condition, your nearness to God and your relationship to Him. If you put that first, worry will go. - Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

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We are all one in sin, one in failure, one in hopelessness, one in need of the Lord Jesus Christ and His great salvation. – Martyn Lloyd-Jones

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Man’s real problem is not simply that he is sick, but that he is a rebel. - Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

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When somebody acts in an evil way towards you, let all know that you are different from the people of the world. – Martyn Lloyd-Jones

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We do not have to wait for eternal life until we are dead; we have it now. - Martyn Lloyd-Jones

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The primary task of the Church is to preach and to proclaim this, to show man’s real need, and to show the only remedy, the only cure for it. – Martyn Lloyd-Jones

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Former medical doctor Martyn Lloyd-Jones ridicules some claims of science!

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God has always done His greatest work through a remnant. Get rid of the notion of numbers. - Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

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The glory of the truly Christian man is that his head, as it were, is in heaven, but his feet are solidly on the earth. He has this perfect balance – eagerness and patient endurance! – Martyn Lloyd-Jones

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The Christian is a man, and the only man in the world, who is truly aware of his own limitations. – Martyn Lloyd-Jones

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John Bunyan puts it perfectly. ‘He that is down need fear no fall.’ When a man truly sees himself, he knows nobody can say anything about him that is too bad. – Martyn Lloyd-Jones

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What most people talk about as the love of God is nothing but their own philosophic conception of love. It is not God’s love. God’s love is a holy love. - Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

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Today is the 90th birthday of Iain H. Murray, the biographer of Martyn Lloyd-Jones and writer of many more precious books @BannerofTruth . How much do we owe him!

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"If the church is anxious that her teaching should permeate the life of society, the quickest and the shortest way to accomplish that is not to preach politics; it is to produce a larger number of Christians. And how is that done? By preaching the pure Gospel."

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If you want to be anxious about anything, be anxious about your spiritual condition, your nearness to God and your relationship to Him. If you put that first, worry will go. - Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

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Our behaviour in times of need and crisis proclaim what we really are. - Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

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We are told frequently today that people are no longer interested in such terms as justification and sanctification, and their like. But when has man in his natural state ever been interested in justification and sanctification? - Martyn Lloyd-Jones

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