More than Conquerors

Sermons of Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

Martyn Lloyd-Jones

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 12 December 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Romans 8:35-39 — The truthfulness of the doctrine of final perseverance of the saints bumps up against several challenges and the apostle Paul addresses these in Romans 8. In this sermon “More Than Conquerors” on Romans 8:35–39, Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones explains that perhaps most troubling thought for the Christian is that they might fail under the scrutiny of intense persecution or temptation. How shall they persevere under such tribulation? Can they separate themselves from the love of Christ? What will keep them? The apostle Paul takes up this challenge to the doctrine of the final perseverance of the saints and gives the proof that true believers will remain in the love of Christ until the end. Dr. Lloyd-Jones brings out the nuance of the apostle’s teaching in this passage and notes the efficacy of Christ’s death and ultimately what He sought to accomplish on the cross. Important for Dr. Lloyd-Jones is the meaning of “the love of Christ.” It is His love for His people, not their love for Him that keeps them in the end. The apostle Paul, says Dr. Lloyd-Jones, was absolutely certain of this doctrine because he believes in God and the power of Christ’s love. If the Christian doubts the truth that one whom God starts saving could subsequently be lost, it would mean that God has been defeated. Dr. Lloyd-Jones calls the listener to no longer think according to feeble doubts, but to think Scripturally and according to the power of God.

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0:00.0	We come this evening to consider the last verses in the eighth chapter of Paul's Epistle to the Romans.
0:06.7	In other words, verses 35 to 39.
0:11.8	Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?
0:16.3	Shall tribulation or distress or persecution or famine or, of peril, or sword, as it is
0:24.6	written, for thy sake we are killed all the day long, we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
0:31.7	Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. For I am persuaded that neither
0:41.5	death nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, no things present, nor things to
0:49.2	come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature shall be able to separate us from the love of God
0:57.9	which is in Christ Jesus, our Lord.
1:01.5	Now there in those verses, we come to the end and the great and grand climax.
1:08.3	Of this most marvelous chapter, then which surely we all will agree there is nothing
1:16.2	greater or more wonderful in the whole of Scripture. What we have here in these verses
1:23.4	can be subdivided into two.
1:30.2	From verse 35 to 37,
1:35.3	we have the apostle putting up the last challenge in his series of challenges
1:38.2	to the doctrine of the final perseverance of the saints.
1:43.7	And then in the last two verses 38 and 39,
1:47.7	he finishes that particular argument, but he goes beyond that. He summarizes the whole
1:54.2	argument that he began at verse 31, and indeed he goes even beyond that. He summarizes and brings to a final climax the whole
2:03.7	of the argument of the whole chapter. Because the chapter you remember began with these words,
2:09.9	there is therefore now no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus, which we interpreted
2:16.2	as meaning, there is none now.
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