Category: D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

Faith brings you into the Bible and then you see the great reasonableness of it all.  For Christ is not only the power or God, He is the wisdom of God (1 Corinthians 1:24), and when you are in it, you see that this alone is wisdom and everything else would be unfair and unreasonable.  If faith were a matter of reason, then only people with great intellects could be Christians.  On the other hand, faith is not unreasonable, because if that were so, no one with an intellect could be a Christian either.  But because it is what it is, it puts us all oin the same level.  We accept this revelation and then proceed to understand.  That is the relation between faith and reason.  – D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Great Doctrines of the Bible, Volume 2, p. 148

The real division of the Bible is this: first, everything you get from Genesis 1 :1 to Genesis 3:14; then everything from Genesis 3:15 to the very end of the Bible.  What you have up until Genesis 3:14 is the account of the creation, and of God’s covenant of works with man, and how that failed because man broke it.  Beginning with Genesis 3:15 you get the announcement of the gospel, the covenant of grace, the way of salvation, and that is the whole theme of the Bible until you come to the last verse of the book of Revelation.  That is the real division of the Bible.  – D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Great Doctrines of the Bible, Volume 1, p. 228

I always feel that a portion of Scripture like this can in many ways be compared with food.  There are some people who bolt their food.  They get something out of it, of course they are getting their calories, but they are missing the enjoyment of the flavor and aroma.  Many people are like that with the Scriptures.  They rush through the passage; they have done it, they think, but oh, what they have missed.

So I propose to chew this with you, and to keep it in our mouths a good time before we swallow it.  Do not miss the pleasure of savoring the Scripture.  Masticate it thoroughly, break it up, and you will find that there are things there that you never imagined.  – D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Romans Vol. 13, pp. 208-209

The theory of evolution tells us that man has not only evolved, but that is is always an upward process, from the primitive and simple to the more highly organized and involved, moving steadily in the direction of perfection. …

But the Bible, of course, tells us the exact opposite ; the Bible tells us that man started, as it were on top and then fell from that. – D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Great Doctrines of the Bible, Volume 1, p. 156

I say it with reverence, nothing less than the omnipotence of God could save a single soul.  But, thank God, His is omnipotent, and we are saved by the power of God in and through the Lord Jesus Christ.   – D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Great Doctrines of the Bible, Volume 1, p. 67

These attributes of God, they are at one and the same time warnings and comforts.  If you have sinned against God you will find it impossible to to get away from Him. … Yes, but is it not a wonderfully comforting thing to think and to realise that it does not matter where your circumstances may put you, God is still with you.  – D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Great Doctrines of the Bible, Volume 1, pp. 62-63

If you have never had difficulty in prayer, it is absolutly certain you have never prayed.

Everything we do in the Christian life is easier than prayer.  – From Lloyd-Jones: Messenger of Grace by Iain Murray

I spend half my time telling Christians to study doctrine and the other half telling them that doctrine is not enough.  – From Lloyd-Jones: Messenger of Grace by Iain Murray

You may know that an attack come from the devil and not from yourself, (a) if it appears to come from outside; (b) if you hate the suggestion made; (c) if it leads to anxiety, depression, doubts, over-concentration on self.  Therefore ‘resist the devil’.  – From Lloyd-Jones: Messenger of Grace by Iain Murray

‘What then is the Bible about?’ asks someone.  Surely there can be no hesitation about answering that question; the Bible, in its essence, is the grand story of redemption.  It is the history of what God has done about men and women as the result of their sin, and everything else that we find in the Bible is, in reality, incidental to that.  The Bible is concerned with presenting to us the message of redemption by God, and from God, in a way that we can understand and see and believe.  – D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Great Doctrines of the Bible Vol. 1, p. 2