Faith and Obedience

Sermons of Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

Martyn Lloyd-Jones

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 8 February 2026

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

In Romans 10:16–17, Paul explains that for a person to come to faith, they must hear the good news. But what comes after receiving faith? In this sermon on Romans 10:16–17 titled “Faith and Obedience,” Dr. Lloyd-Jones answers this question affirmatively by pointing to the early church in Paul’s time. After faith, a change was expected in the believers. They could no longer participate in idol worship or immoral rituals. Dr. Lloyd-Jones says that they must submit themselves to the gospel with obedience. A good test to see whether or not a person really has faith is to look at their actions. Are they changed after believing or do they give, as Dr. Lloyd-Jones calls it, “intellectual assent”? These are people who merely acknowledge the gospel as the truth but do nothing to back it up. They never left behind worldly habits and practices. But Dr. Lloyd-Jones points out that as James said, faith without works is dead. Obedience shows faith and faith encourages obedience. In closing this sermon on obedience, he extends the message of salvation, reminding believers and unbelievers alike of the joy found within.

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0:00.0	I would like to call your attention this evening to the words found in Paul's Epistle to the Romans
0:05.2	in chapter 10, verse is 16 and 17. But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Isaiah saith,
0:15.7	Lord, who hath believed our report. So then, faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the word of God.
0:28.1	Now, most of you remember that we are looking at these two verses,
0:33.5	which of course have got to be taken in connection with verses 14 and 15 also.
0:39.3	These four verses constitute a little subsection on their own in this tenth chapter of this epistle to the Romans.
0:47.3	There, the Apostle, in verses 14 and 15, the Apostle was dealing with the proclamation of the gospel to all, the general invitation
0:58.1	of the gospel.
0:59.8	How shall they call on him in whom they have not believed?
1:02.5	How shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard?
1:05.1	And how shall they hear without a preacher?
1:07.1	And how shall they preach except they be sent?
1:09.4	As it is written, how beautiful are the feet of
1:12.9	them that preach the gospel of peace and bring glad tidings of good things. That is God's way
1:20.0	of bringing men to salvation. He has ordained that it is through preaching, and therefore he has
1:26.3	ordained preachers, and he sends preachers.
1:30.2	A preacher is a man who is sent by God to make this good news concerning the Lord Jesus
1:37.5	Christ and his salvation known to all.
1:41.6	Now, there is what he deals with in those two verses, but immediately a problem arises.
1:47.8	And the problem is that it's clear and obvious that though the gospel is thus preached to all,
1:53.7	all do not believe. Some believe, some do not believe. They have not all obeyed the gospel. The apostle is not a bit surprised at this.
2:04.9	The Jews were using this as an argument. They said, very few Jews are believing this message of
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