None Should Boast

Sermons of Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

Martyn Lloyd-Jones

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 27 February 2026

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Now that Christ has come, what is the relationship between Jews and Gentiles? This is the question Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones seeks to answer in this sermon on Romans 11:18–22 titled “None Should Boast.” Christ Jesus has come and instituted the new covenant – the fulfilment of all of God’s Old Testament covenants. In the new covenant, there is no longer a distinction between Jew and Gentile, for all are made one by believing in Christ and in His death, burial, and resurrection. Paul makes it clear that the Jews have not been rejected in total, but only those Jews who do not believe in Jesus Christ. Dr. Lloyd-Jones points out that it is a mistake to think that the Gentiles are part of the new covenant because of anything they have done. Paul goes on to make it perfectly clear that salvation is always by grace and grace alone. Nothing either Jews or Gentiles can do can ever make them part of the people of God. It is by the grace of God given in His Son Jesus Christ that anyone can know God and love Him. Gentiles have no ground for boasting because it is all the grace of God and not human works or merit.

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0:00.0	I'm going to read to you the words found in Paul's Epistle to the Romans in Chapter
0:05.1	11, from verse 17 to verse 22, from verse 17 to verse 22 in the 11th chapter of Paul's
0:14.3	Epistle to the Romans.
0:18.0	And if some of the branches be broken off and thou being a wild olive tree were grafted in among them,
0:24.6	and with them partigest of the root and fatness of the olive tree,
0:30.1	boast not thyself against the branches,
0:34.7	but if thou boast, thou bearest not the root, but the root thee.
0:39.7	Thou wilt say, then, the branches were broken off that I might be grafted in.
0:44.6	Well, because of unbelief, they were broken off, and thou standest by faith.
0:51.0	Be not high-minded, but fear. For if God spared not the natural branches, take heed lest he also spare not thee.
1:00.1	Behold, therefore, the goodness and severity of God.
1:05.2	On them which fell, severity.
1:08.4	But toward thee goodness, if thou continue in his goodness, otherwise thou also
1:15.6	shalt be cut off. Now, I want in particular to deal with the statement from verse 18 to the
1:25.5	end of verse 22, but I read you again the 17th verse in order
1:30.7	to remind you of the context. We've been looking for the last two Friday nights at verses
1:37.8	16 and 70. And there we saw that the apostle was very concerned to put clearly to these Gentile believers,
1:48.8	for most of these Roman Christians were Gentiles.
1:52.2	Not all, but the majority undoubtedly were Gentiles.
1:56.5	The Apostle has written to them, and is in this section in particular, concern to make clear
2:02.5	to them the position of both Jew and Gentile in the Christian Church.
2:11.5	That's the theme.
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