Collecting the Evidence, Part 1

Sermons of Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

Martyn Lloyd-Jones

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 6 March 2026

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

What is the future of the people of Israel? In this sermon on Romans 11:25–27 titled “Collecting the Evidence (1),” Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones examines this most important topic of Israel’s future. Paul is concerned that the Gentile believers may be arrogant towards the Israelites. No one must think they are saved because they are smarter or wiser than anyone else. The Gentiles did not believe in the gospel because they were smarter than the Israelites. They believed because God in His grace was pleased to give mercy to the Gentiles through Jesus Christ. While some Israelites rejected the gospel, not all did. Paul gives himself as an example of a faithful Israelite who trusted in the promised Messiah. Furthermore, Paul speaks of the day when many of his fellow Jews will come to worship Jesus and be saved. Listen as Dr. Lloyd-Jones teaches on the great day of salvation for all Jewish people who come to know the glorious gospel of Jesus Christ. God is faithful to His promises and He has provided salvation for all who believe in Him.

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0:00.0	The words to which I would like to call your attention this evening are to be found in Paul's Epistle to the Romans in Chapter 11, reading verses 25, 26 and 27.
0:12.2	Verses 25, 26 and 27 in the 11th chapter of Paul's Epistle to the Romans.
0:20.4	For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery,
0:25.5	lest ye should be wise in your own conceits,
0:29.6	that blindness in part has happened to Israel,
0:33.6	until the fullness of the Gentiles become in.
0:37.9	And so all Israel shall be saved, as it is written,
0:43.4	there shall come out of Zion the deliverer,
0:46.6	and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob.
0:50.3	For this is my covenant unto them when I shall take away their sins.
0:56.7	Now, most of you, I'm sure, will bear in mind the connection of this.
1:01.2	This is one of these great prophetic utterances in the New Testament.
1:07.4	In many ways, it is one of the most remarkable prophecies of all, certainly one of the great
1:14.6	prophecies of the Apostle Paul.
1:18.7	Now let's again remind ourselves of the context and how the Apostle ever came to say this.
1:24.6	He's working out a great argument in this chapter.
1:28.3	It's a part of the great argument that's been going on from the beginning of the ninth
1:34.3	chapter.
1:35.3	It's this whole question of the Jews and their relationship to the kingdom of God, especially
1:41.3	to the Christian church, that particular form of the kingdom of God called
1:45.6	the Christian Church. The position he has to deal with is this, that the Gentiles were
1:52.8	being tempted to say that God had entirely finished with his ancient people, and that they,
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