Practical Christianity, Part 2

Sermons of Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

Martyn Lloyd-Jones

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 30 April 2026

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Is it harder to rejoice with those who rejoice or weep with those who weep? In this sermon on Romans 12:15–16 titled “Practical Christianity (2),” Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones looks at how Christians are called to respond to one another. The problem of every human being, without exception, is the problem of pride and self. All struggle with envy and jealousy. The Christian is called to not settle for being able to hide this sin but learn to replace it by rejoicing with another over their success. No one can do this for themselves. The gospel of salvation in Christ is the only thing that can deliver one from the self and unify them with the body of believers. Christians cannot divide doctrine and practice and should look at the story of the Christian church, being called to have a common mind and think like one another. Christians are encouraged to know what it means to be knit together in love. They are to look at the example of Christ washing the feet of men and preach the gospel to the poorest. Nothing is more incongruent to the Christian faith as social disjunctions. Christians should associate with the humble, forsaking pride and ambition, and come humbly before the Lord.

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0:00.0	I should like to call attention this evening to verses 15 and 16 in the 12th chapter of Paul's
0:06.7	Epistle to the Romans.
0:08.7	In the 12th chapter of the Epistle to the Romans reading verses 15 and 16, rejoice with
0:16.6	them that do rejoice and weep with them that weep. Be of the same mind one toward another.
0:24.3	Mind not high things, but condescend to men of lowest state. Be not wise in your own conceits.
0:33.5	Now, you'll remember that we are considering this subsection of this 12th chapter of the Epistle to the Romans.
0:41.0	The one in which the apostle, as I was suggesting last Friday night,
0:45.7	deals with the way in which we react to people and to things that happened to us.
0:54.0	That's, I think, the best way of looking at this
0:56.8	particular subsection. He has been dealing positively with how we are to behave, how we are to
1:02.6	use the gifts that we are given in the church, and how we are to face life and other people
1:08.6	in general. But now he takes it from the other angle, the things
1:13.1	that happen to us and how we react to them. Last Friday we were considering in terms
1:19.3	of verse 14, how we are to react to persecution. And it was quite clear. Bless them which
1:26.1	persecute you and curse, bless and curse not.
1:30.7	We are to react in a positive way, not merely to put up with it, but we are to feel sorry for these people and to pray for them.
1:39.1	Instead of calling down God's curse upon them, we are to call down God's blessing upon. A most difficult thing to do,
1:47.3	and I indicated, as I must keep on doing, as we deal with every one of these injunctions,
1:52.6	that this is something that can only be done by a Christian, by one who is born again,
1:59.1	by one who has a new nature.
2:01.8	Nobody else is capable of doing these things.
2:05.1	And the apostle, of course, is addressing his remarks to those who are truly Christian,
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