Righteousness by Faith

Sermons of Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

Martyn Lloyd-Jones

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 13 January 2026

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Romans 10:5-8 — How far away is the truth? What quest or journey must be traversed in order to find God? Is there some kind of special act one must perform in order to make their way to God? Many people teach that God is so far away that the gap is unspeakably difficult to cross. Others teach that one must cross the gap to God by their own efforts. Whether it is Roman Catholicism, the mystical way, or Protestant intellectualism, Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones finds the answer to such false systems in the apostle Paul’s words in Romans 10:5–8. The apostle invokes the great preacher of the law – Moses – in order to show that God has revealed Himself perfectly clearly. There is no need to ascend to heaven or descend into the deep. God, through Christ, has revealed Himself fully in the gospel and the gospel way is not about human efforts. It is not about their assent or justification by works. Salvation is about justification by faith alone in Christ Jesus alone. In this sermon on Romans 10:5–8 titled “Righteousness by Faith,” listen as Dr. Lloyd-Jones applies Paul’s gospel message to contemporary ears and encourages with the grace-filled message of our savior.

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0:00.0	We are dealing at the moment with the subsection in the 10th chapter of Paul's epistle to the Romans,
0:06.3	which runs from verse 5 to verse 10.
0:09.6	Let me read them again to you.
0:11.9	For Moses describeth the righteousness which is of the law,
0:16.9	that the men which doeth those things shall live by them.
0:21.8	But the righteousness which is of faith speaketh on this wise.
0:27.4	Say not in thine heart, who shall ascend into heaven,
0:31.5	that is to bring Christ down from above,
0:35.0	or who shall descend into the deep,
0:41.2	that is to bring up Christ again from the dead?
0:42.9	But what saith it?
0:48.4	The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth and in thy heart.
0:55.8	That is the word of faith which we preach, that if thou shall confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus,
1:01.8	and shall believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.
1:10.7	For with the heart men believeth unto righteousness, and with the mouth, confession is made unto salvation. Now, you remember that last Friday night we began
1:14.3	our consideration of this subsection. I emphasize then the importance of bearing the context
1:21.2	in mind, and it's still important that we should do that. He's still dealing with this whole
1:25.7	question as to why the Jews of all people
1:28.7	should be outside the kingdom of God, whereas the Gentiles, whom the Jews had always regarded
1:34.6	as outsiders, were actually to be found in the kingdom of God as the result of believing
1:41.1	the gospel. And the apostle is here dealing with the cause of that. It's all due to the
1:45.9	fact that they'd misunderstood the function and the meaning and the purpose of the law. They'd
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