Sanctification

Sermons of Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

Martyn Lloyd-Jones

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 25 May 2026

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Justification by faith alone has been called the great doctrine on which the church stands or falls. With the emphasis on justification, many Protestants are guilty of neglecting the important doctrine of sanctification. As Christians strive to rightly understand what the Bible teaches about sanctification, there are many unique challenges this doctrine presents. What is the relationship between faith and works? Does the law have any role to play in the Christian life? How does right motivation affect one’s works before God? In this sermon on Romans 13:11–14 titled “Sanctification,” Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones answers these questions and more. He also alerts to the dangers of antinomianism and legalism. These two defective beliefs work in tandem as people either think the law does not concern them or they reduce the Christian life to outward practice of the law. In this sermon on sanctification, Dr. Lloyd-Jones not only warns about the dangers of an imprecise understanding of sanctification, but also positively makes a biblical case for grounding good works in faith in Christ Jesus. Listen as Dr. Lloyd-Jones uncovers the symptoms of false beliefs about sanctification while providing the biblical treatment that will lead Christians to truly grow in their relationship with God.

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0:00.0	in the spirit of that hymn, and especially that last verse, I would read to you verses 11 to 14 in the 13th chapter of Paul's epistle to the Romans.
0:11.4	Thirteenth chapter of Romans reading from verse 11 to the end of the chapter, and that knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep, for now is our salvation
0:25.1	nearer than when we believe. The night is far spent. The day is at end. Let us therefore
0:33.3	cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light. Let us walk honestly
0:39.7	as in the day, not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife
0:47.2	and envying, but put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh to fulfill the lusts thereof.
0:58.0	Well, that's one of the great and one of the most eloquent passages in the whole of the Bible.
1:04.0	But we are looking at it tonight because it constitutes a new subsection in this 13th chapter of this epistle to the Romans which we are studying together. It's introduced, as you notice, by the words, and that. And it's important that we should realize the significance of those words. They can be translated, if you like, by moreover. The words introduce an
1:32.0	additional thought. That's their import. That's their meaning. He's been saying certain things
1:39.2	and that, he says, in addition to, on top of this. In other words, he brings in an additional circumstance
1:46.5	in order to heighten the force of what he's just been saying. Now, a similar use of this
1:54.5	expression, and that will help us perhaps to gather its exact meaning.
2:01.6	You've got it in the eighth verse of the second chapter of Paul's Epistle to the Ephesians.
2:06.0	You're familiar with this.
2:07.2	For by grace are he saved through faith?
2:10.0	And that, not of yourselves, it is the gift of God.
2:15.1	He's adding to the statement.
2:16.7	He's taking it further. He's lifting it higher. Now, it's exactly the same sort of God. He's adding to the statement. He's taking it further. He's lifting it higher.
2:19.5	Now, it's exactly the same sort of significance that it has here in this 11th verse that we are now
2:25.8	looking at. In other words, what we've got here in this passage at the end of this chapter
2:31.1	is a further reason for doing all the things he has been calling us
2:37.0	to do from the beginning of the 12th chapter. There was the great division, the great
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