Life From the Dead

Sermons of Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

Martyn Lloyd-Jones

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 24 February 2026

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

What is the future of the Jewish nation? According to Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones in this sermon on Romans 11:13–15 titled “Life From the Dead,” one does not have to wonder since God prophesied through the apostle Paul that there will be a great day when Israel is saved. While they may have stumbled, this was only temporary in order that the gospel might go to all the nations of the Gentiles. God has promised that there will come a day when the dead come to life; that is, when the spiritually dead Israelites receive the gospel of Jesus Christ and believe in Him. All Christians ought to pray and seek the day when God moves and causes a great revival amongst the people of Israel. Furthermore, Paul warns Gentile Christians from becoming prideful and boastful towards the Jewish people, for both Jew and Gentile are justified by faith in Christ as a gift from God. How should this message change the way Christians live now? Christians ought to seek to evangelize the people of Israel because they know that there will be a day when God causes a great revival amongst them. The church ought to pray and eagerly await the day when God fulfills His promise and brings many national Israelites into the church of Jesus Christ.

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0:00.0	Most of you, I'm sure, will remember that we are engaged at the moment in studying
0:04.2	verses 13, 14, and 15 in the 11th chapter of Paul's epistle to the Romans.
0:12.6	But I speak to you Gentiles.
0:16.0	Inasmuch as I am the Apostle of the Gentiles, I magnify my office. If by any means, I may provoke to
0:24.6	emulation them which are my flesh and might save some of them. For if the casting away of them
0:31.9	be the reconciling of the world, what shall the receiving of them be, but life from the dead.
0:40.5	Now, we had to spend most of our time last Friday, you'll remember, in dealing with this
0:45.8	difficulty, which arises in the precise and exact understanding of what the apostle is saying owing to the construction
0:56.2	which he chose to imply at this point.
1:00.6	But we suggested, having looked at the mechanics, that it's clear that the apostle is making
1:07.6	a number of statements here.
1:09.4	The first is that he is now speaking specifically,
1:13.0	and in particular to the Gentiles, that he does this because he is preeminently the
1:20.8	apostle to the Gentiles. And thirdly, because he is anxious to magnify his office.
1:28.1	He's proud of the office, and he wants to fulfill the task which God has given him this
1:34.0	great and this glorious task.
1:37.6	It was a commission given to him by the Lord, and that is enough in itself, to call
1:42.2	all his energies forward in the discharge of such a task.
1:48.8	He is doing it, therefore, with all his might and may.
1:54.8	He is not content merely with evangelizing.
1:58.0	He wants to teach.
1:59.0	He wants to explain in order that these people
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