{"id":3148,"date":"2024-11-05T10:27:20","date_gmt":"2024-11-05T08:27:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sonofcarey.com\/?p=3148"},"modified":"2024-11-05T10:30:34","modified_gmt":"2024-11-05T08:30:34","slug":"martyn-lloyd-jones-consumed-with-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sonofcarey.com\/?p=3148","title":{"rendered":"Martyn Lloyd-Jones: Consumed With God"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>18 June 1944\u2014in the midst of WWII.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Martyn Lloyd-Jones is 44 years old and the pastor of the Westminster Chapel in London.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Germany has been bombing London when suddenly all the members of the congregation hear the familiar whistle of another bomb falling towards the city.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>ML-J is at this moment leading the church in prayer.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>He continues to pray until the whistle is too loud for anyone to hear his words.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Suddenly, the bomb hits the church and damages the building at 11:20 am.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Plaster falls and hits ML-J\u2019s head.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>As soon as the noise is gone, he picked up with his prayer right where he had left off.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>He only paused for a few seconds.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>This is the life of a man so drawn to God, that nothing else mattered on earth.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Many godly men like this are kept hidden in relative obscurity, but here is a man that God specially brought to popularity&#8211;a man full of God.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>When J. I. Packer heard him preach he said, \u201cI have never heard another preacher with so much of God about him. \u2026 The thrust of Lloyd-Jones\u2019 sermons is always to show man small and God great.\u201d 317<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Thesis<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Revival most commonly comes among those who are God-centered like Martyn Lloyd Jones.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The life of Martyn Lloyd-Jones<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol style=\"list-style-type:upper-roman\" class=\"wp-block-list\"><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>1899 &#8211; <\/strong>December 20, Born to Henry and Magdalen Lloyd-Jones in Wales.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1910 &#8211; <\/strong>January 20 \u2013 The Lloyd-Jones home burns to the ground with the family barely escaping. Martyn is saved by being thrown from an upstairs window into a blanket below.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1911 &#8211; &#8211;<\/strong> Martyn attends a boarding school in Tregaron Wales for the next three years. He disliked his time at the school and would forever be a vocal antagonist to this British custom. He would later say of his boarding school experience, \u201cI believe that I shall never totally recover from this until I reach that country where we shall never part anymore.\u201d (219)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1913<\/strong> \u2013 Martyn decides to become a doctor.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1914<\/strong>\u2014 The family business fails and Henry claims bankruptcy.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1914<\/strong>\u2014 Martyn considers dropping out of school to become a bank clerk, but his family sends him to school which sets him up for his medical career.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1916 <\/strong>\u2013 At 16, Martyn is accepted at the very prestigious St. Bartholomew\u2019s Hospital in London.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1921\u2013<\/strong> Martyn begins working for Sir Thomas Horder, a doctor to the royal family.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1922<\/strong> \u2013 His father Henry dies. His brother had died a few years earlier.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1923<\/strong> \u2013 He receives his MD degree for his research in subacute bacterial endocarditis. His research is later published.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1924<\/strong> \u2013 Martyn Lloyd-Jones is converted.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1925<\/strong>\u2013 Martyn begins to yield to God\u2019s call to preach.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1926 &#8211; <\/strong>October 10, \u2013 Martyn preaches his first sermon<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1926<\/strong>\u2014 November 28, \u2013 Martyn candidates and is accepted at Aberavon, Wales.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1927 &#8211; <\/strong>January 8, \u2013 Martyn marries Bethan Phillips. Wedding gifts: Books by John Owen and Richard Baxter.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1927<\/strong>&#8212; October 26 \u2013 His daughter Elizabeth is born.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1929 <\/strong>\u2013 Martyn discovers the writings of Jonathan Edwards in a second hand book store as he waits for a train in Cardiff Wales. He would later say \u201cThey helped me more than anything else.\u201d (125) Lloyd-Jones would come to evaluate Edwards as the greatest theological mind of all times. (MLJ, <em>The Puritans: Their Origins and Successors, <\/em>p. 355)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1929<\/strong>&#8212; Reads Luke Tyerman\u2019s <em>The Life and Times of George Whitefield. <\/em>\u201cWhen I read of Whitefield I feel that I have never really preached in my life.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1931<\/strong> \u2013 Harry Wood, a recent convert, expressed his desire to go straight home to Heaven after praying. He later dies at church after opening the church\u2019s prayer meeting. Revival begins with 128 converts that year.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1932<\/strong> \u2013 He discovers the writings of B.B. Warfield. This influences him more towards doctrinal and Pauline preaching. He would later confess (1949) that he became too academic because of Warfield\u2019s influence.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1935 <\/strong>\u2013 He preaches on the radio and later to 7,000 people in Wales.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1935<\/strong>&#8212; December, \u2013 G. Campbell Morgan hears Lloyd-Jones preach for the first time.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1936 &#8211; <\/strong>April, \u2013 Lloyd-Jones preaches at Spurgeon\u2019s Tabernacle and is contacted about becoming their Pastor.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1938<\/strong>\u2014After 10 years of pastoring at Aberavon, he seeks another church feeling that his work was done there.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1938<\/strong>&#8211;September, \u2013Martyn Lloyd-Jones accepts G. Campbell Morgan\u2019s proposal to preach for six months at Westminster Chapel<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1939 &#8211; <\/strong>April 23, \u2013 Martyn Lloyd-Jones accepts the call of Westminster Chapel to share pastoral duties with G. Campbell Morgan<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1939<\/strong>&#8212; Sept 3, WWII begins the day before he becomes the Co-pastor at Westminster.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1939<\/strong>&#8212; His first book of sermons is published, <em>Why does God allow War? <\/em>Eventually, 95 different books will be published, all his sermons.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1940<\/strong> \u2013 Attendance drops significantly due to widespread evacuations. His salary becomes very small.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1941<\/strong>&#8212; Begins a ministers&#8217; Fraternal at Westminster Chapel.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1941<\/strong>&#8212; Establishes a church prayer meeting at Westminster Chapel<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1943 &#8211; <\/strong>Lloyd-Jones officially becomes the pastor of Westminster.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1943<\/strong>&#8212; October3, \u2013 Lloyd-Jones establishes the pattern of preaching a sermon of edification for believers in the morning and an evangelistic sermon in the evening.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1943<\/strong>&#8211;On this Sunday he began his very first expositional series on the book of 1 Peter.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1944 <\/strong>&#8211; June 18, 1944 \u2013 Lloyd-Jones Prays though a V1 attack that damages Westminster chapel. Plaster falls from the ceiling on his head but he continues his pastoral prayer.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1945 &#8211; <\/strong>January 15, \u2013 Lloyd-Jones opens the Evangelical library.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1945<\/strong>&#8212; October, \u2013 Becomes a council member of the China Inland Mission.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1946<\/strong>&#8212; September \u2013 December, \u2013 Revival with many conversions.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1949<\/strong> &#8211; Summer, \u2013 Lloyd-Jones suffers from a serious bout of depression.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1949<\/strong>&#8212; December, \u2013 Lloyd- Jones begins the Puritan Conference with the aid of J.I. Packer.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1953 \u2013 <\/strong>March \u2013 Attacked in the <em>British Weekly <\/em>for his ICF address \u201cMaintaining the evangelical faith today\u201d.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1954<\/strong>\u2013 Begins his series of sermons on Spiritual Depression. This would become \u201cthe doctor\u2019s\u201d most popular topical messages.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1954<\/strong>&#8212; March, \u2013 Lloyd-Jones is the only well-known minister who does not support the Billy Graham crusade in London.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1957 &#8211; <\/strong>The Banner of Truth Trust is founded.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1958<\/strong>\u2013August &#8211; Preaches extensively in South Africa<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1959<\/strong> &#8211; January 11, \u2013 Begins a series of 26 messages on revival to commemorate the revival of 1859.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1965<\/strong>\u2013 Gets his first home.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1966<\/strong> \u2013October 18, 1966 \u2013 Gives his \u201cEvangelical Unity\u201d appeal at the Evangelical Alliance. He calls for separation from compromised denominations. John Stott follows with a rebuttal.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1968 &#8211; <\/strong>February 25, \u2013 Preaches his last Sunday sermon as Pastor.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1968<\/strong>&#8211;April 14, \u2013 Begins his historic addresses on \u201cPreaching and Preachers\u201d at Westminster Seminary.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1970<\/strong> \u2013 May- ends the Puritan Conference due to the position of Packer and others on issues of doctrine and separation.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1970<\/strong>&#8212; R.T. Kendall becomes the Pastor at Westminster Chapel<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1981<\/strong> \u2013 February \u2013 Lloyd-Jones scribbles a note to his family, \u201cDon\u2019t pray for healing. Don\u2019t try to hold me back from the glory.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1981<\/strong>&#8212; March 1, \u2013 Dr. David Martyn Lloyd-Jones dies on Sunday.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Lessons from his life<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol start=\"2\" style=\"list-style-type:upper-roman\" class=\"wp-block-list\"><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>We must constantly preach the bad news before we can do any spiritual good.\n<ol style=\"list-style-type:lower-alpha\" class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>From early on in his ministry he preached to edify believers on Sunday morning and to evangelize on Sunday evenings.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>When asked when he was going to have a crusade, he said, \u201cI have one every week.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u201cThe great difference between the Christian and the non-Christian is that the former speaks with humility and meekness.\u201d 96<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u201cThe first work of the Holy Spirit is to convict of sin and to humble men in the presence of God.\u201d 129<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u201cIt is made perfectly clear in the pages of the NT that no man can be saved until, at some time or other, he has felt desperate about himself.\u201d 130<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u201cThe staple of Paul\u2019s preaching was God and judgment.\u201d 316<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>His sermons commonly emphasized sin and humility.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Men felt small when they heard him preach, but they weren\u2019t bothered because they also felt that God was very big.<br><br><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Absolutely everything in the Bible is true.\n<ol style=\"list-style-type:lower-alpha\" class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Because the Bible is inerrant, we must study it thoroughly.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>He loved true doctrine and held firmly to Reformed theology.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Sometimes in his preaching he would make distinctions based on the whether a word was singular or plural.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>He wanted to separate from those in the churches who tried to diminish parts of the Scripture.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Because he believed in inerrancy, his sermons were logical, rational, and tightly reasoned.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>When I heard one of his last sermons, his medical training came through several times, as he looked for \u201cthe cause before the cure.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>For example: \u201cEvolution is the biggest hoax in the world in the past 100 years.\u201d 338<br><br><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>God is most honored and His people are most helped by expositional preaching.\n<ol style=\"list-style-type:lower-alpha\" class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>He preached constantly. Often in the week, he would be speaking on Tuesday through Friday at different churches. In his first year of being a pastor\u2014and for almost all of the next 50\u2014he preached in 54 different churches. 116<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Later in life, he would preach verse by verse through books of the Bible.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2 \u00bd years on Sermon on the Mount<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>8 years on Ephesians<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>13 years on Romans<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>He placed very little emphasis on programs in the church, preferring all the children above 3 years old to sit in the service.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>When he found a stage at his first church for practicing acting during the week, he said, \u201cYou can heat the church with it.\u201d 88<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Once he was asked to preach on television, and he was told to stop when the light came on. But he refused to obey since he didn\u2019t want to quench the Spirit.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>At 80 years old he was still preaching to large crowds.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>He said preaching is \u201clogic on fire.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>He believed that preaching must address the mind first.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>But the preacher must not be satisfied until the hearer has truly experienced awe and reverence before God.<br><br><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Prayer is as vital to the Christian as blood is to the body.\n<ol style=\"list-style-type:lower-alpha\" class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The Sunday morning prayers were about 10 minutes long.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>He took time to prepare himself for the prayer and said that there was \u201cnothing more important than to learn how to get oneself into that frame and condition in which one can pray.\u201d <em>Preaching and Preachers<\/em>, 170.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u201cWhen a man is speaking to God, he is at his very acme. It is the highest activity of the human soul, and therefore it is at the same time the ultimate test of a man\u2019s true spiritual condition. There is nothing that tells the truth about us as Christian people so much as our prayer life. Everything we do in the Christian life is easier than prayer.\u201d <em>Sermon on the Mount<\/em>, vol. 2, 46.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>He warned that it is far easier to preach than to pray well.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>On one Sunday morning when he was in London a man wanted to kill himself by jumping into the Thames. He suddenly went to the Chapel where he was converted hearing ML-J\u2019s pulpit prayer. 305<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>In both pastorates, he sought to devote the congregation to prayer during the week for at least an hour.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Once in May 1931, they began praying at 7:15 as usual and prayed until ML-J closed the meeting at 10 pm.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>At his first church when the congregation was about 80, they had 40 people coming to pray.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Harry Wood prayed to death in 1931. 134<br><br><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>We need to set our hopes on God for revival.\n<ol style=\"list-style-type:lower-alpha\" class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>He longed for revival and saw amazing movements of God\u2019s Spirit several times in his ministry.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>In 1930, he and some other pastors gathered \u201cto consider means for promoting a Revival of Religion.\u201d 124<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Toward this end they pledged:\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>To abstain from any sin which would hinder revival.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>To pray daily for 30 minutes that God would send revival.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>To call constantly for true conversion in their churches.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u201cPray for revival? Yes, go on, but do not try to create it, do not attempt to produce it, it is only given by Christ himself. The last church to be visited by a revival is the church trying to make it.\u201d 128<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>However, he did not disparage the average means of grace whereby men and women would come to Christ slowly.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>But he wanted nothing to do with fake \u201crevivals.\u201d One newspaper wrote about him: \u201cHe had no use for the type of man who was always trying to produce a revival; there were men in the churches today who seemed to regard a revival as a hobby\u2026\u201d 84<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>After about 6 months as pastor, his wife was one of the first converts in his ministry. \u201cShe had always feared God; her life was upright, and yet she knew that she had no personal consciousness of the forgiveness of sins, no sense of inward joyful communion with Christ.\u201d 110<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Shortly after that other church officers became converted. One \u201crushed to speak\u201d to ML-J before he left the pulpit. 109<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>On one evening 40 people were baptized in his first church.<br><br><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Seriousness is a Christian virtue because of the great realities with which they alone deal.\n<ol style=\"list-style-type:lower-alpha\" class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>His biography has 13 photos of ML-J between 15 and 70 where he is not smiling in one of them.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>There are no jokes in his sermons.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The people would arrive and wait in silence until the worship began.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>There was no band or even choir.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u201cIf there were celebrities in the congregation he neither knew nor cared.\u201d 302<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u201cIt is not our service; the people do not come there to see us or please us\u2026 They, and we, are there to worship God, and to meet with God.\u201d <em>Preaching and Preachers<\/em>, 263<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>He prayed a lengthy Sunday morning pastoral prayer.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>In preaching \u201cthe first thing you had to do was to demonstrate to the people that what you were going to do was very relevant and urgently important.\u201d<br><br><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The greatest Christian blessing is to know Christ.\n<ol style=\"list-style-type:lower-alpha\" class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>\u201cMy request is this: That we all be honest with one another in our conversation and discussions and never profess to believe more than is actually true to our <em>experience<\/em>.\u201d 89<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>For many years, he placed great emphasis on experiential Christianity. He wanted no part of a dead but orthodox church.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>To this end, he started a Wednesday night fellowship meeting where believers would testify about their salvation. (He did not preach at these meetings.)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Often workers would come straight from work, still in their dirty clothes, in order to pray and hear the testimonies. 140<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u201cIf you honestly believe (and remember it is your responsibility) that you derive greater benefit by spending your day in the country than you do by attending a place of worship, well then, go to the country. Don\u2019t come here if you honestly feel that you do better elsewhere. \u2026 All I ask of you is, be consistent. When someone dies in your family, do not come to ask the church in which you do not believe to come to bury him. Go to the seaside for consolation.\u201d 91<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>He knew that the churches were helping to produce false converts so he rejected the altar call and things like it.<br><br><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Truth is more valuable than friendship, recognition, or opportunity.\n<ol style=\"list-style-type:lower-alpha\" class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>As liberalism grew, the Christians in the major churches decided to talk with the unbelievers who were calling themselves Christians.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>However, this dialogue proceeded on the assumption that these men were true believers.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>By so doing, the true Christians were accepted, but so were the false.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>ML-J would have none of this ecumenism.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>He lost friends and influence because he would not endorse Billy Graham or others like him.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Yet 50 years late, his fears have come true: the Christians who tried to gain more influence have actually lost their witness.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>ML-J loved the gospel more than influence, fame, or reputation.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Sources<\/strong><br><br>Murray, Iain. <em>The Life of Martyn Lloyd-Jones<\/em>, single volume.<br>Martyn Lloyd-Jones. <em>Preaching and Preachers<\/em>.<br>Catherwood, Christopher. <em>Martyn Lloyd-Jones<\/em>.<br>Sargent, Tony. <em>The Sacred Anointing.<\/em> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thesis The life of Martyn Lloyd-Jones Lessons from his life Sources Murray, Iain. The Life of Martyn Lloyd-Jones, single volume.Martyn Lloyd-Jones. Preaching and Preachers.Catherwood, Christopher. Martyn Lloyd-Jones.Sargent, Tony. 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