Learning the Lessons from Israel’s History

Sermons of Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

Martyn Lloyd-Jones

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 13 February 2026

⏱️ 50 minutes

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How could it be that the foolish and ignorant Gentiles would predominately receive the gospel, whereas God’s chosen people, the Jews, would predominately reject the gospel? Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones has been tracing the apostle Paul’s argument through Romans, seeking to answer this query following the inspired text of Scripture itself. In this sermon on Romans 10:18–21 titled “Learning the Lessons,” he transitions from exposition to application of the many exegetical principles he has established in earlier messages. Dr. Lloyd-Jones notes the important role in the personal application of Scripture, which many of the Jews in Paul’s day missed. Furthermore, he traces the history of the church as illustrative of “dead orthodoxy” that abandons the Lord Jesus Christ and persecutes His church. The answer to such alarming tendency of so-called “Christians” persecuting the church is a posture of self-examination and returning to the ultimate authority – the word of God. Dr. Lloyd-Jones asks the church to remain open to the scrutiny of Scripture, remaining humble before it and others, while rightly handling the whole of the Bible. Listen to this vital message from Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones as he cautions the church to take serious the tragedy of the Jews, not merely as a historical interest, but more importantly as a means of God’s grace in the life of His people.

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0:00.0	Let me read to you once more the concluding verses in the tenth chapter of Paul's epistle to the Romans,
0:08.0	beginning to read at verse 18 and going on to the end of the 21st verse.
0:13.4	But I say, have they not heard?
0:17.7	Yes, verily their sound went into all the earth, and their words unto the ends of the world.
0:26.1	But I say, did not Israel know, first Moses said, I will provoke you to jealousy by them that are no
0:35.6	people, and by a foolish nation I will anger you.
0:40.3	But Isaiah says, ìs very bold, and saith, ìI was found of them that sought me not.
0:46.3	I was made manifest unto them that ask not after me.
0:50.3	But to Israel, he saith, all day long I have stretched forth my hands unto a disobedient and gainsaying people.
1:01.2	Well, now, we've already been considering those statements.
1:06.0	We've looked at them as a whole, and we've looked at them in their particular aspect and in the meaning of
1:12.2	the particular words.
1:14.4	What we have here, as I've been trying to show, is the apostle summing up this case that
1:22.8	he is presenting against the Jew.
1:26.1	He began dealing with it at the beginning of chapter 9. He'll go on with it
1:29.9	until the end of chapter 11. But here in this 10th chapter, he gives us in detail what is the
1:38.5	explanation of the failure of the Jews to believe and to give obedience to the gospel.
1:46.0	And it's all summarized here in these last verses.
1:49.0	The trouble with them was that they had a false idea of salvation.
1:54.0	They were trusting to their nationality, to their knowledge, and to their works.
1:59.0	In the same way, they lacked an understanding of the way of salvation as it truly is in Christ Jesus,
2:07.1	justification by faith only, faith in the Lord and in his perfect and completed work.
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