Know Your Preachers
Martyn Lloyd-Jones on the Gospel
Throughout our series in Colossians, we want to share with you some of the classic sermons from the great preachers of the recent past. Listen to this powerful sermon from Martyn Lloyd-Jones called given “Love So Amazing” as he preaches through Colossians 1:21-22.
Know Your Preachers
Born in Wales in 1899, David Martyn Lloyd-Jones, or “the Doctor” as he was known, graduated with a medical degree from the University of London and first worked as the assistant to the Royal Physician. Sensing a call to ministry, he then became the pastor of a small church in Wales until arriving at Westminster Chapel in London and serving as Pastor there from 1943 until his retirement.
A prolific preacher, in his book Preaching and Preachers, he noted that true preaching was defined as “logic on fire.” Preaching, he believed, was the logical demonstration of the truth of a given text of Scripture delivered with the aid of the Holy Spirit’s fire.
Speaking of Lloyd-Jones, J.I. Packer once commented that he had "never heard such preaching." He said that it came to him "with the force of electric shock, bringing to at least one of his listeners more of a sense of God than any other man.”
Many of Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones’ sermons are now available and remastered through the Martyn Lloyd-Jones Trust.
The Doctor Is In
Love So Amazing: Colossians 1:21-22
Why is God’s love amazing? It is not only because it is redemptive and transforming, but according to Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones, God’s love is amazing because of what it cost Him. For God only forgives through His Son, Jesus Christ. It was by Jesus dying upon the cross of Calvary that God brought about redemption and forgiveness for His people.
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