Martyn Lloyd-Jones quotes - page 2

We must cease to think of the church as a gathering of institutions and organizations, and we must get back to the notion that we are the people of God. (Martyn Lloyd-Jones)
There is a very real danger of our putting our faith in our sermon rather than in the Spirit. Our faith should not be in the sermon, it should be in the Holy Spirit Himself.
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Man was never meant to be a god, but he is forever trying to deify himself.
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First of all, the evangelical is one who is entirely subservient to the Bible. This is true of every evangelical. He is a man of one book; he starts with it; he submits himself to it; this is his authority.
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A Christian is something before he does anything; and we have to be Christian before we can act as Christians.
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People are often unhappy in the Christian life because they have thought of Christianity, and the whole message of the gospel, in inadequate terms.
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There are powers that can counterfeit almost everything in the Christian life.
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A man who imagines that because he has a head full of knowledge that he is sufficient for these things had better start learning again. 'Who is sufficient for these things?' What are you doing? You are not simply imparting information, you are dealing with souls, you are dealing with pilgrims on the way to eternity, you are dealing with matters not only of life and death in this world, but with eternal destiny.
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Faith always shows itself in the whole personality.
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The introduction is the first and best chance to win the attention of people who otherwise would not care. The first thing you have to do is make people believe that what you have to say is relevant and important.
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Human will-power alone is not enough. Will-power is excellent and we should always be using it; but it is not enough. A desire to live a good life is not enough. Obviously we should all have that desire, but it will not guarantee success. (Martyn Lloyd-Jones)
The Bible does not isolate war, as if it were something separate and unique and quite apart, as we tend to do in our thinking. It is but one of the manifestations of sin, one of the consequences of sin.
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This actual question of 'Why does God allow war?' is not considered or raised as such in the Bible at all.
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Every painful consequence of sin is a part of the punishment meted out for sin.
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God permits war in order that men may bear the consequences of their sins as punishment. How clearly this is shown time and time again in the story of the children of Israel!
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