Christ, Who is God

Sermons of Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

Martyn Lloyd-Jones

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 19 December 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Romans 9:4-5 — Have modern critical scholars undermined the teaching about Christ’s deity? On what basis is this passage a doxology to God the Father instead of an affirmation of deity of the Son? False religions and cults seek to mislead the people of God and Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones takes up the challenge of looking closely at the arguments for the departure of modern translations from the Authorized Version. In this sermon on Romans 9:4–5 titled “Christ … Who is … God,” his main contention is that the changes reflected in the modern translations is not the result of an honest reading of the grammar, nor are they based on studying the manuscript tradition (textual criticism). Instead, it rests entirely on a general argument about what Paul does not do in his letters. Dr. Lloyd-Jones finds this most troubling and leverages not only other modern scholars, but the history of interpretation, and most importantly, other Scriptural evidence in order to show that Jesus Christ is called “God” by the apostle Paul in this verse. Listen as Dr. Lloyd-Jones provides a fresh account of an old debate and defends Trinitarian orthodoxy in the face of modern critical scholarship.

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0:00.0	Most of you will recall that we are dealing at the moment with the fourth and fifth verses
0:05.2	in the ninth chapter of Paul's epistle to the Romans,
0:10.8	who are Israelites to whom pertaineth the adoption and the glory and the covenants
0:16.8	and the giving of the law and the service of God and the promises,
0:21.7	whose are the law and the service of God and the promises, whose are the fathers,
0:23.7	and of whom, as concerning the flesh, Christ came,
0:28.5	who is overall God blessed forever. Amen.
0:33.6	Now, here in these two verses we've seen the apostle
0:36.3	is giving us a list of the things
0:40.3	which indicated the peculiar position of the blessing and of glory in which God had placed
0:48.3	the children of Israel. He is concerned, of course, with their failure as a nation to believe in the Lord Jesus Christ.
0:58.2	That is why he tells us that he has this great heaviness and continual sorrow in his heart on their account.
1:06.0	And here he is explaining something at enterant of that great heaviness and continual sorrow which he felt.
1:13.4	Their position had been such an exalted one. Their privileges had been so exceptional
1:19.2	that there can be no greater tragedy than their failure to recognize their own long-expected Messiah and Savior.
1:29.6	So he gives us a list of these things which mark them out once and forever,
1:35.2	as being in a peculiar sense the people, the children of God.
1:39.9	And now we've arrived at the last, which is the climax of all,
1:43.8	which is that of whom, as concerning the flesh, Christ came, who is overall God blessed forever.
1:54.4	Now, we began dealing with this last Friday night, and I indicated that with regard to the first part of the statement,
2:01.8	there is no difficulty, and there is no disagreement. It is agreed that the Apostle is saying
2:09.0	that according to the flesh, Christ came of the Jews. But unfortunately, from there on, there is considerable disagreement. And the
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