Present Your Bodies

Sermons of Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

Martyn Lloyd-Jones

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8 • 603 Ratings

🗓️ 19 March 2026

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

The Bible offers many commentaries about the spiritual, but how can we glorify God with our physical bodies? Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones provides 3 key points to why and how we must Glorify God with our bodies in his sermon on Romans 12:1-2. First, that the whole person is to be saved, not just a man’s mind and spirit. Dr. Lloyd-Jones states that we must never leave out the body in our ideas of redemption because it is the “temple of the Holy Ghost” and should be treated as such. Although we will someday leave the body, it is not simply flesh that houses our soul. It is instead, a temple for the Holy Spirit to dwell in us. Secondly, we must glorify God with our bodies because the soul must have a body to express itself. We are not just souls floating around inside of bodies. No, we are intelligent beings that can think, see, and do physical acts. The body, soul, and mind are all intertwined and when combined, they make us who we are. Thirdly, we must not disregard the eternal importance of our physical body because it is one of the chief sources of temptation and sin. Dr. Lloyd-Jones states, “The greatest fight for every Christian is the fight against the temptation of the body.” Sin is lurking around every corner. We must always be on the lookout to protect ourselves from bodily temptation. To counteract our sinful tendencies, we must present our bodies as a “living sacrifice.” Like Paul states, we must sacrifice our own sinful desires for eternity. We want to preserve our bodies to be “holy and acceptable to God”. If we strive for this, then we will be ready when we must inevitably present them to God.

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0:00.0	We are continuing this evening our study of the first two verses in the 12th chapter of Paul's
0:05.6	Epistle to the Romans.
0:08.4	I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that he present your bodies
0:14.7	a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service, and be not conformed to this world,
0:25.6	but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.
0:41.3	Now, here we are still with this most important statement.
0:49.7	Two verses full pregnant with thought and instruction, which is of very great importance for us all.
0:56.9	The apostle here now is telling us why and how we should live the Christian life.
1:00.7	That's the real thing that he's summing up in the two verses.
1:08.7	He's laying down the great principles which is going on to work out in detail from here to the end of the epistle.
1:12.1	Now, we've already started on this.
1:14.5	There are two great motives for living the Christian life.
1:20.3	If you feel that this is something against the grain, and if you feel it's a hard task,
1:25.6	and if you feel that it's all very grievous, there's only one explanation, and that is,
1:28.9	you haven't understood the first 11 chapters of the Epistle to the Roman.
1:30.8	The two great motives are what you understand with your mind, all the doctrine summed up in
1:36.1	the word, therefore.
1:37.2	But he says your heart should be involved.
1:40.4	I beseech you by the mercies of God.
1:43.4	If you realize what God has done for you, if you realize how God did not even spare his only son but gave him and delivered him up for you all, well then your heart will be broken and you'll be anxious to show your gratitude to him.
1:59.0	So by the mercies of God, your heart is touched as well as your mind by the grand display of the truth.
2:06.8	And so everything really conspires together to make you desire to live in a manner that is well-pleasing in God's sight.
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