Justified and Glorified

Sermons of Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

Martyn Lloyd-Jones

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8 • 603 Ratings

🗓️ 27 November 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Romans 8:28-30 — In this sermon on Romans 8:28–30 titled “Justified and Glorified,” Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones continues to expound the apostle Paul’s golden chain of redemption and comes to the doctrine of justification. He notes there are different aspects of the teaching that many professing believers leave out. For example, justification is not merely forgiveness. Forgiveness of sin is included, but justification is much bigger. Sinners are declared by God to be totally guiltless through the imputed righteousness of Christ. Dr. Lloyd-Jones states that understanding justification in this way is not only essential to Paul’s argument, but is vital for understanding union with Christ. If a Christian is justified, they are in Christ and incorporated into Him. Furthermore, Dr. Lloyd-Jones recognizes how the apostle moves from justification to glorification in this golden chain, noting the implied presence and importance of sanctification for the believer. The Christian has the greatest confidence and assurance of eternal future because Paul depicts glorification as guaranteed. They are certain of glorification because it is bound up in God’s plan. Listen as Dr. Lloyd-Jones walks through one of the apostle Paul’s famous passages for comfort and assurance.

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0:00.0	We resume our study of the words which have to be found in Paul's epistle to the Romans in Chapter 8,
0:10.0	verses 28, 29, and 30. And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God,
0:19.0	to them were the called according to his purpose.
0:23.6	For whom he did for know, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his
0:30.6	son, that he might be the first born among many brethren.
0:36.6	Moreover, whom he did predestinate, then he also called,
0:41.6	and whom he called them he also justified,
0:44.6	and whom he justified then he also glorified.
0:50.6	Though we are actually engaged at the moment in the study of the 30th verse, I've read the two preceding verses,
0:58.0	because, as we've been seeing, it is essential to the argument here that we should remember what the apostle is setting out to do,
1:08.0	and also that we should bear in mind that in this chain or catena
1:14.4	of arguments that he provides for us, that it is clearly essential that we should know
1:20.9	the other links as well as the particular ones which we are looking at together now.
1:26.9	Now, the fundamental purpose of the Apostle is to persuade us and to give us certainty of the fact
1:35.1	that all things work together for good to them that love God.
1:42.3	That's his fundamental purpose.
1:44.4	He's trying to give comfort and consolation to Christian people who are facing troubles
1:51.7	and trials and tribulations.
1:53.8	He's just been dealing with that.
1:56.2	He says that we ourselves who have the first fruits of the spirit, we ourselves grown within ourselves,
2:04.6	waiting for the adoption. He has said that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy
2:10.2	to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us. Well, there were sufferings. There
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