Renewal of the Mind, Part 3

Sermons of Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

Martyn Lloyd-Jones

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 25 March 2026

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

The Christian will certainly fail to understand Christianity if they reduce it to morality, escape from hell, or even simply the forgiveness of sins. In this sermon on Romans 12:1–2 titled “Renewal of the Mind (3),” Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones reminds that Christianity is concerned with those things, but the Scriptures teach that the Christian life is so much more. The doctrine of regeneration, he says, tells that God enables the mind to know and appreciate the will of God. It is surely unnatural for fallen humanity to delight in the law of the Lord. It is contrary to the sinful nature to confess, no matter the dire circumstances of life, that God’s ways are always good. Indeed, the pleasure and delight the believer experiences concerning the will of God is both the result and goal of the renewal of the mind. Dr. Lloyd-Jones contends that the new outlook on life where the Christian believes God’s will is always good, always acceptable, and always perfect moves Christianity beyond other ethical systems of the world. Listen as he shows how the renewal of minds leads to the most glorious aspect of the Christian faith –– finding the will of God beautiful and most wonderful no matter what.

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0:00.0	We are still considering, as most of you will remember, the first two verses in the 12th
0:05.3	chapter of Paul's Epistle to the Romans.
0:08.9	I beseech you, therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that he present your bodies
0:15.5	a living sacrifice, only acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service, and be not conformed to
0:25.7	this world, but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind that he may prove what is that good
0:36.4	and acceptable and perfect will of God.
0:42.2	Now, we have reached the stage at which we've got to consider that last phrase,
0:47.4	that he may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God. I've been trying to show how in these
1:00.2	two verses the Apostle introduces the great theme of Christian living. Having outlined the great
1:06.6	doctrine in the first 11 chapters, he now comes to application, which he introduces with this
1:12.5	word, therefore. And here, in this summary, we are given the great principles, as we've been
1:19.5	seeing, of Christian conduct and Christian behavior. I suggested that you might divide up the
1:26.6	statement in this way, that first of all he gives
1:30.0	us the motives for Christian living.
1:33.5	Therefore, the doctrine, mercies of God, what he's done for us, a sense of gratitude,
1:40.5	there's the motive.
1:41.5	Then he came to consider the way in which, or the manner, if you like, in which we live the Christian life.
1:48.8	And there he deals with the body that we present our actual physical, material bodies
1:56.6	as a living sacrifice to God, wholly acceptable and well-pleasing in his sight,
2:02.1	which is our intelligent mental service and worship of God.
2:08.7	And then that we be not conformed to this world, there's the realm of human relationships,
2:15.3	but positively that we be renewed in our minds.
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