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May 28, 2013

EFFECTUAL CALLING AND REGENERATION

by Dr. David Martyn Lloyd-Jones


ABOUT THE AUTHOR: The late Dr. Lloyd-Jones (1899-1981) was a superb Welsh author, lecturer, minister, physician, polemicist, and theologian.  For almost 30 years, he was the minister of Westminster Chapel in London. He was very well known for his expository preaching. Sometimes he would take many months, even years, to expound on a chapter in the Bible verse by verse. Perhaps his most famous publication is a 14-volume series of commentaries on the Epistle to the Romans, the first volume of which was published in 1970. 

His rich legacy of soteriological articles still bless readers around the world today. Since his death, there have been various publications regarding Lloyd-Jones and his work, most popularly a biography in two volumes by Iain Murray. It is with great pleasure that I once again feature a must-read exposition by Dr. Lloyd-Jones for the discerning readers of this blog.  

When a person who is honestly mistaken learns the truth, he will either quit being mistaken, or quit being honest.  As Dr. Lloyd-Jones rightly stated, "We are not born because we believe.  We believe because we are reborn. "  I wholeheartedly and unreservedly recommend this Bible-based article for your personal edification and reading pleasure. Simply click here to read.  Also, don't miss watching the insightful,19-minute TV interview of the late Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones by Joan Bakewell here. There is no interview like it. Thanks for stopping by!


In awe of His saving, sovereign grace,


Dennis Fischer
Web Chaplain 




NOTABLE QUOTES FROM DR. LLOYD-JONES:


  • You are either a Christian or you are not a Christian; you cannot be partly a Christian.  You are either "dead" or "alive"; you are either "born" or  "not  born".
  • Faith is this extraordinary principle which links man to God; faith is this thing that keeps a man from hell and puts him in heaven; it is the connection between this world and the world to come; faith is this mystic astounding thing that can take a man dead in trespasses and sins and make him live as a new being, a new man in Christ Jesus.
  • If we spent more of our time in looking at Him we should soon forget ourselves.
  • It was God's hand that laid hold of me, and drew me out, and separated me to this work.
  • Not to be in fellowship with those who are born again is to be guilty of schism, which is sinful.
  • You cannot be baptized or filled with the Spirit without knowing it. It the greatest experience one can ever know. The teaching that assures us that we may feel nothing at all runs entirely contrary not only to the teaching of Scripture, but to the recorded experiences of countless Christians throughout the centuries.
  • The answer of the New Testament is that when the Holy Spirit came upon early Christians they knew it.







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