About this episode
Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones discusses the importance of love in the Christian life as outlined in Romans 12:9–21.
In this sermon on Romans 12:9–21 titled “Sermon on Love, Part 1,” Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones teaches that the believer must always proceed from doctrine to application and the two great principles must characterize and govern the Christian life. The apostle Paul is concerned with the practicalities of the Christian life, both in how the Christian acts and reacts. The listener will see their absolute need for the salvation of Christ and respond in presenting themselves as a sacrifice. Love is the fulfilling of the law and it sums up the whole of the law — these two must never be contrasted. “We should be animated in our living with the same kind of love by which God loves us,” Dr. Lloyd-Jones says. Love is totalitarian, not sentimental and weak. God should not be loved merely in word, but also in deed. Learn of the love of the atonement that commands one’s love of God and neighbor. The Christian must keep the law with the Spirit; otherwise they will fall into dissimulation. “The law is an expression of God’s being,” says Dr. Lloyd-Jones. The Christian is to hate and abhor evil, adhering themselves to that which is good in the eyes of God.
People in this episode
Host: Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones
Topics covered
- love
- Christian life
- doctrine
- application
- law
- atonement
Keywords
- love
- Christianity
- Romans
- doctrine
- application
- law
- atonement
Mentioned in this episode
Books & works: Sermon on Love, Part 1, Romans 12:9–21
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