
Book of Romans
Dr Martyn Lloyd-Jones’s sermons on the book of Romans were preached to the congregation at Westminster Chapel in the heart of central London on Friday evenings between October 1955 to March 1968. These sermons were preached from the beginning of October until the end of May each year, with breaks being taken for Christmas and Easter. Dr Lloyd-Jones began his ministry at Westminster Chapel in 1938, and his ministry there lasted for thirty years until his retirement in 1968. As such, his Romans series came at the end of his preaching career. Spanning 366 sermons over twelve years, his series on the book of Romans is the longest expositional series Dr Lloyd-Jones ever did.
Dr Lloyd-Jones regarded the book of Romans as the ‘first in importance’ among the New Testament epistles. Indeed, it is likely that Dr Lloyd-Jones saw his exposition of the book of Romans as his most important work, as evidenced by the fact that he chose his Romans sermons as the first of his many sermons to be published following his retirement. His official biographer Iain Murray writes;
Many hundreds of unrevised manuscript copies of sermons thus existed by 1968, of which, for reasons already noted, comparatively few had appeared in print. He did not hesitate in choosing to put his Romans sermons first for publication in book form, to be followed by those on Ephesians.
Dr Lloyd-Jones’s hope for these sermons on the book of Romans was that they will ‘not only help Christian people to understand more clearly the great doctrines of our Faith, but that they will also fill them with a joy “unspeakable and full of glory” and bring them into a condition in which they will be “Lost in wonder, love, and praise”’.
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Introduction
The expression “missing the wood from the trees” is particularly appropriate when we approach a new section of sacred Scripture. While it is tempting to focus on individual subsections in Romans 9-11, we would do well, says Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones, to keep a…
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Paul's Great Concern
What is the purpose of the conscience? How does it function? Can it be wrong? Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones begins to discuss Romans 9:1-3, dissecting the phrases that Paul uses to show how his conscience testifies to the truth of Scripture. This, says Dr. Lloyd-J…
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Relationships and God's Purposes
There is much to learn from the apostle Paul. In this sermon on Romans 9:1-3, Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones examines Paul’s attitude towards his fellow Jews, most of them still unbelieving. Paul does not have an attitude of anger or antipathy towards them, but rat…
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Who are The Israelites?
Who are the Israelites and why does Paul feel this continual sadness and heaviness for his kinsmen? In Romans 9:4-5, Paul is showing the unique privileges that the Jewish people had as God’s chosen people. Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones explains the three terms whi…
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God's Covenants
What is a covenant? In this sermon on Romans 9:4-5, Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones says that it is vital that we come to a right understanding of the nature of biblical covenants in order to understand the Gospel. He says that a covenant in the Bible is not an ordi…
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Children of the Promise
There is nothing more significant for each of us than to know how to approach God; how to enter His presence and take our petitions and prayers to Him; how to render service to the true and living God. Over against the Gentile nations, Israel was given spec…
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Christ ... Who is ... God
What is the basis of taking Romans 9:5 to refer to Christ? Have modern critical scholars undermined the teaching about Christ’s deity? On what basis should we read this passage as a doxology to God the Father, instead of an affirmation of deity of the Son? …
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The True Israel
What does it mean that not all of Israel is Israel? In Romans 9:6-7, Paul begins to deal with the objections that arise from this statement. Can God’s purpose be changed or frustrated? Listen as Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones answers these and many more questions w…
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Child of the Promise
Learn of the double meaning to the words “seed” and “children”. How can Ishmael and Isaac both be descendants of Abraham, yet not both be his “seed”? Learn of God as Creator and sustainer. The promises of God never return void. “It is God’s choice and calli…
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God's Purpose Made Sure
Although everyone is under God's sovereign control, his special purpose and promises are only for his children, those who are born of the Spirit. As Paul argues this case in Romans 9:10-13, he gives examples in the Old Testament. A previous example included…
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God's New Humanity
What does the apostle Paul mean when he speaks of God electing people? There are few questions more controversial than this one. In this sermon on Romans 9:10-13, Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones seeks to answer this particularly important question. He notes that thr…
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A Right Approach
Does God really choose who to save? How should you respond after hearing the truth about the doctrine of election? For some, this is the hardest concept to grasp in all of theology. Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones explains Paul’s exclamation in Romans 9:14 by first …
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God's Mercy
What is the great mystery of salvation? According to Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones in this sermon on Romans 9:14-18, it is not why every sinner is not saved, but why any are saved. This is because as the apostle Paul says, God does not have to give mercy to anyone…
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Hardening of Pharaohs Heart
Does God purposefully harden people’s hearts? There is no other statement that causes greater offense to the natural man. Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones explains the meaning behind Paul’s statements and the conclusions that we can draw from Romans 9:17-18. Paul say…
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Who Art Thou O Man?
Who is responsible for a hard heart? Is it something we do or something God does to us? In this powerful sermon, Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones introduces us to the challenging subject of God's sovereignty and man's responsibility. Scripture speaks of God's soverei…
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Holy God; Fallen Man
Who is really in charge? Are we free to do whatever we want? Is God really guiding everything to happen the way He wants? How are we to understand the sovereignty of God and the responsibility of man? Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones sheds some much needed light on t…
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God's Wrath
Why does God allow evil to exist? Many see the presence and reality of evil as something God should extinguish. What they fail to see, as Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones proclaims, is that evil is not an external force acting upon humanity, but an internal reality w…
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God's Glory Revealed (1)
God has every right to immediately and eternally punish sin. Humanity has been warned for centuries to turn from sin and submit to Christ. While God restrains His wrath, He will not allow His voice to be ignored forever. Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones lays out a fo…
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God's Glory Revealed (2)
Romans 9:19-24 can sometimes be troubling to Christians. Paul’s talk of predestination, election, and God’s wrath against sinners can plunge us into discussions that challenge our intellect and instincts of the justice of God. Perhaps lost in the rigors of …
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Jew and Gentile
The Old Testament Scriptures testify that salvation is for Jews as well as the Gentiles. Surprisingly, many Jews needed to be convinced of this in the first century. Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones calls our attention to the apostle Paul’s method. He builds his case…
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About Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones
Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones (1899-1981) was a Welsh evangelical minister who preached and taught in the Reformed tradition. His principal ministry was at Westminster Chapel, in central London, from 1939-1968, where he delivered multi-year expositions on books of the bible such as Romans, Ephesians and the Gospel of John. In addition to the MLJ Trust’s collection of 1,600 of these sermons in audio format, most of these great sermon series are available in book form (including a 14 volume collection of the Romans sermons), as are other series such as "Spiritual Depression", "Studies in the Sermon on the Mount" and "Great Biblical Doctrines". He is considered by many evangelical leaders today to be an authority on biblical truth and the sufficiency of Scripture.