God's Mercy

Sermons of Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

Martyn Lloyd-Jones

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 25 December 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Romans 9:14-18 — What is the great mystery of salvation? According to Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones in this sermon on Romans 9:14–18 titled “God’s Mercy,” it is not why every sinner is not saved, but why any are saved. This is because as the apostle Paul says, God does not have to give mercy to anyone but He chooses to because He is a gracious God. There is no doubt that this is a hard teaching to grasp; this is seen in the fact that many wise and godly Christians have rejected it. Yet God’s word is clear that from start to finish, salvation is a free and gracious gift from God. For if God had to give salvation to everyone, how would it be all of grace? As the Scripture teaches, God gives mercy to whom He wills to give mercy and He hardens whom He wills to harden. This truth is seen in the Lord Jesus’s parable of the workers in the vineyard. Here it is seen that God is not obligated to give mercy to all, yet He chooses to give some in order that His name might glorified. What should be one’s response to this teaching? This great doctrine should cause the Christian to forsake all hope in themselves and look to Jesus who alone can save.

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0:00.0	I would direct your attention this evening to the words found in Paul's Epistle to the Romans
0:05.0	in chapter 9 and reading from verse 14 to verse 80.
0:11.0	What shall we say then?
0:13.0	Is there unrighteousness with God? God forbid.
0:18.0	For he says to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion
0:27.7	on whom I will have compassion.
0:30.3	So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that showeth
0:36.5	mercy.
0:38.0	For the scriptures saith unto Pharaoh,
0:40.6	even for this purpose have I raised thee up,
0:43.9	that I might show my power in thee,
0:46.7	and that my name might be declared throughout all the earth.
0:51.1	Therefore hath he mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom he will, he hardness.
1:01.2	Now, we began looking at this great subject that the apostle deals with here last Friday
1:08.1	evening. And I think we established this point.
1:12.8	We said there were two main things before us.
1:15.0	The first is, what had the apostle been saying from verse 6 to verse 13?
1:21.9	And we came to the conclusion that what he had been saying was this.
1:26.8	That God, in the carrying out of his great and eternal
1:30.3	purpose does so through the process of election or selection, and that in this matter of election,
1:38.3	God is governed by nothing but by his own sovereign will,
1:48.5	and that in the exercise of that sovereign will,
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