MARTYN LLOYD-JONES

MARTYN LLOYD QUOTES

The Beatitudes. First, all Christians are to be like this...there you have description of what every Christian is mean to to be. It is not merely a description of some exceptional Christians.

We must never look at any sin in our past life in any way except that which leads us to praise God and to magnify His grace in Christ Jesus.

We are all in such a hurry, we want everything at once. We believe that all truth can be stated in a few minutes. The answer to that is that it cannot.

Have you realised that most of your unhappiness in life is due to the fact that you are listening to yourself instead of talking to yourself?

A GRAIN FROM THE HARVEST

To make it quite practical I have a very simple test. After I have explained the way of Christ to somebody I say “Now, are you ready to say that you are a Christian?” And they hesitate. And then I say, “What’s the matter? Why are you hesitating?” And so often people say, “I don’t feel like I’m good enough yet. I don’t think I’m ready to say I’m a Christian now.” And at once I know that I have been wasting my breath. They are still thinking in terms of themselves.

They have to do it. It sounds very modest to say, “Well, I don’t think I’ good enough,” but it’s a very denial of the faith.

The very essence of the Christian faith is to say that He is good enough and I am in Him. As long as you go on thinking about yourself like that and saying, “I’m not good enough; Oh, I’m not good enough,” you are denying God – you are denying the gospel – you are denying the very essence of the faith and you will never be happy. You think you’re better at times and then again you will find you are not as good at other times than you thought you were. You will be up and downforever. How can I put it plainly? It doesn’t matter if you have almost entered into the depths of hell. It does not matter if you are guilty of murder as well as every other vile sin. It does not matter from the standpoint of being justified before God at all. You are no more hopeless than the most moral and respectable person in the world.

Spiritual Depression: Its Causes and Its Cure

There are certain general lessons, I suggest, to be drawn from the Beatitudes. First, all Christians are to be like this. Read the Beatitudes, and there you have a description of what every Christian is meant to be. It is not merely the description of some exceptional Christians.

Our Lord does not say here that He is going to paint a picture of what certain outstanding characters are going to be and can be in this world. It is His description of every single Christian. ....that like to use "Catholic", is the fatal tendency to divide Christians into two groups - the religious and the laity, exceptional Christians and ordinary Christians, the one who makes a vocation of the Christian life and the man who is engaged in secular affairs. That tendency is not only utterly and completely unscriptural; it is destructive ultimately of true piety, and is in many ways a negation of the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ. There is no such distinction in the Bible. There are distinctions in offices - apostles, prophets, teachers, pastors, evangelists, and so on. But these, Beatitudes are not a description of offices; they are a description of character.

Studies in the Sermon of the Mount

THE DOCTOR WHO PREACHED LIFE INTO DRY BONES

There once walked through the streets of London a man trained to heal the body, but called instead to tend the soul. Martyn Lloyd-Jones was a physician who laid down his stethoscope to become a preacher. His words did not flatter. They cut with precision, like a scalpel, yet they always pointed to the cure—Christ, crucified and risen. Born in 1899 in Wales, he became one of the most powerful voices of the twentieth century, not because he followed the trends of the day, but because he refused to. In a world growing increasingly entertained but spiritually hollow, he opened the Word and let it speak.

He was raised in a humble home, yet showed early brilliance. While still in his twenties, he worked as assistant to the king’s own physician in London, already standing near the peak of medical achievement. But something gnawed at him. The more he treated patients, the more he saw that many were not truly sick in the body—they were sick in the soul. Medicine could not touch that. He began to sense a calling far greater than status or science.

At thirty-one, he shocked his colleagues and left medicine entirely. He returned to Wales to pastor a small church in Port Talbot. The pulpit became his new operating room. With fearless clarity, he preached repentance, warned against counterfeit religion, and lifted high the beauty of grace. Revival stirred in that town. Hardened men wept. Families were mended. A new kind of healing was at work.

In 1939, he was invited to London’s Westminster Chapel, eventually becoming its lead preacher after the retirement of G. Campbell Morgan. His ministry there would stretch through war, loss, and cultural upheaval. The Blitz came, and with it came fire and rubble. Yet Lloyd-Jones kept preaching. People gathered in the dim chapel as bombs fell around them. He would not give them anecdotes. He gave them God.

His sermons were not theatrical. He spoke calmly, yet with an intensity that made silence feel electric. He believed preaching was not a craft to master but a fire to carry. He did not preach about the gospel—he delivered it. Week by week, he peeled back the pages of Romans, Ephesians, and Acts, refusing to rush, sometimes spending years in one book. His aim was not to make people feel better about themselves but to awaken them to the majesty of God.

He resisted the pull of modern trends. He would not exchange truth for popularity, nor dilute doctrine for applause. He believed deeply in the power of the Holy Spirit to apply the Word to human hearts. When asked about church growth strategies, he would simply reply, “Preach the Word.”

Though often misrepresented as stern, he was a man full of affection, especially toward his beloved wife Bethan, who stood by him through all seasons. He carried sorrow too—chronic illness in later years, and the weight of controversy when he stepped away from movements that compromised the gospel. Still, he never lost the inner flame.

He passed into glory in 1981, leaving behind a treasury of sermons and writings. His Sermon on the Mount series and Studies in the Book of Romans continue to feed countless souls across the world. His messages still echo, not because they were clever, but because they were true.

Martyn Lloyd-Jones taught the world that preaching is not entertainment. It is a holy moment where God meets man. He showed that truth never grows stale when it is soaked in prayer and spoken with love. He reminded us that revival does not come through programs, but through a people humbled beneath the Word. And most of all, he pointed to a Savior who heals the deepest sickness—not with medicine, but with mercy.