Rev. Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones is a preacher who gets to the heart of the biblical text and presents its message with great grace and convincing power. His passion for Christ and the Gospel is unmatched. As he expounded the Scriptures, he captured the attention of very large congregations as the Spirit of God took hold of their minds and hearts.

Rev. Dr. David Martyn Lloyd-Jones’s soteriology illustrates what he believed about the Cross, God’s only way of reconciliation for all the world. He was not a hyper-Calvinist, as he so forcefully claimed. In fact, he considered hyper-Calvinism an abomination. He strangles all the churches where he sets foot. He leaves sinners with nowhere to go when they worry about their spiritual state. Hyperism excludes the sinner from the only Savior from sin, death, and judgment, and locks him up in despair because he first has to discover whether or not he is one of the elect before he can trust Christ to save him. This is an impossible task because the elect are known only to God. But the Gospel message calls all who are ‘of the world’, that is, all mankind, to repent of their sins and trust in the only Savior from sin, the Lord Jesus Christ.

Theologians must make the case for a gospel based on the Bible, and not one distorted by the medieval scholastics who have done so much damage to the Christian church. They and their theologically liberal fellow travelers have destroyed congregations where their evil influences and the negative effects of this persuasion have been felt and tolerated. They have created an elitist attitude among the church members to such an extent that the church members have been deceived about their true spiritual state, so they have no desire to reach the lost with this wonderful Gospel of salvation. They may be Orthodox, but they are ‘dead Orthodox’. Lacking vision, they generally have little or no interest in world mission because they have no interest in reaching the lost around them.

Dr. Lloyd-Jones was very different from these people. He was defined by his wife, Bethan, first and foremost as ‘a man of prayer and an evangelist’. When he preached at Westminster Chapel, London, his evening sermons were always evangelistic. And when he preached away from home, he usually he always preached evangelistic sermons.

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