Learning the Lesson

Sermons of Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

Martyn Lloyd-Jones

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8 • 603 Ratings

🗓️ 6 January 2026

⏱️ 51 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Romans 9:1-33 — In this sermon on Romans 9:1–33 titled “Learning the Lesson,” Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones gives a bird’s eye view of the entire chapter to show what can be learned. He says that contrary to what many believe, the Old Testament is not done away with or made obsolete for Christians. This can be known because the apostle Paul uses many Old Testament references and examples to explain the nature of the church, the Christian life, and salvation in Christ. Just as God chose the people in Israel in the Old Testament and passed by others, so also in the New Testament God calls out a people, the church, for His own purposes. Paul explains that being a Jew does not mean that one is a Christian, for not all who are born of Israel are true Israel. It is only those that God calls that are truly the children of God. This sermon presents many of the hard truths of Scripture, but it also shows how these hard truths are some of the most comforting. All of God’s truth is good news for those that love Him and who have put their trust in Jesus Christ.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	I don't read any particular verse in the ninth chapter of Paul's Epistle to the Romans
0:05.8	this evening as a particular text for the reason that I'm anxious rather to draw certain
0:14.0	general lessons and deductions with you from the entire chapter.
0:27.0	Now, those who attend here regularly will know that we've been working through this chapter since the first Friday night of last October.
0:31.2	It is, by any, reckoning, a very vital and a very crucial chapter, not only in the argument of the whole epistle
0:39.1	to the Romans, but from the whole standpoint of Christian doctrine and an understanding of the
0:46.0	Christian truth. And I think that as we've been working our way through it, we have all come
0:51.4	to see that and perhaps to recognize it, at least I trust we have in a deeper manner than we've never done before.
1:00.5	Now, while the apostle, of course, was primarily dealing with the situation as it obtained in the Christian church actually, in his own day and generation.
1:13.9	He is at the same time, of course, laying down principles which are of universal application
1:19.8	and which have from time to time in the long history of the Christian Church
1:25.1	emerged with particular clarity.
1:29.7	And it is because of that that I am calling your attention to some of these general lessons,
1:37.1	which it seems to me stand out on the very surface of this teaching.
1:45.0	Now, the main point which the apostle establishes and with which he is dealing, of course, is this.
1:52.1	The tragic position of the Jews as a nation.
1:58.4	Here was the very people of God.
2:06.6	The people whom you would have anticipated would have been the first to enter into the Christian church, actually outside.
2:11.6	There were individual Jews inside, as he reminds us in verse 24, where he says, even us, whom he hath called, not of the
2:21.4	Jews only, but also of the Gentiles. He's dealing with the position of the Jewish nation
2:31.1	as a whole. And the truth was, of course, that as a whole, the Jewish nation as a whole. And the truth was, of course, that as a whole, the Jewish nation was outside the church,
2:41.2	whereas those who had gone crowding into the kingdom into the church were mainly Gentiles.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Martyn Lloyd-Jones, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Martyn Lloyd-Jones and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.