Saving Faith

Sermons of Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

Martyn Lloyd-Jones

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8 • 603 Ratings

🗓️ 21 January 2026

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Romans 10:9-10 — In this sermon on Romans 10:9–10 titled “Saving Faith,” Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones gives a roadmap through the Christian life as they experience God. Encountering God means that salvation is not only an intellectual decision or that God can be made known through reasonable thinking. Scripture demands that the Christian have faith in God and a faith that includes all of their being. But how can one possess such faith when they are full of fear and doubt? It is hard enough for a person to keep small commitments to themselves. Dr. Lloyd-Jones shows that it is precisely through encountering God that the Christian is given this faith by Him. God initiates this relationship that leads to Godly sorrow over sin, turning from them and putting faith in Jesus Christ. These are the very beginning steps in the Christian life and without them, one cannot be called a Christian. If one has been convicted of their sins, repented, changed their thoughts about God, and grieved over their sinfulness, they have shown the true marks of one who has encountered God and believed in the Lord Jesus Christ.

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0:00.0	We are engaged at the moment, as most of you will remember, in studying verses 9 and 10 in the
0:05.8	10th chapter of Paul's Epistle to the Romans.
0:09.3	The 10th chapter of Paul's Epistle to the Romans, verses 9 and 10, that if thou
0:15.9	shall confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shall believe in thine heart that God hath raised
0:24.1	him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.
0:27.8	For with the heart men believeth unto righteousness and with the mouth, confession is made
0:34.5	unto salvation.
0:36.0	Now, we've spent a number of Friday evenings on this statement
0:39.1	because it is such a crucially important one,
0:42.5	which, as we've already seen, affects evangelism,
0:46.5	affects our understanding of salvation,
0:51.1	affects probably the whole course of our Christian life.
0:55.6	That's why we've had to spend this time.
0:57.2	We've divided it into three sections.
0:59.5	First of all, what is the content of saving faith?
1:04.9	What we've got here is a definition of saving faith, the faith by which a man is saved. What is the content we've considered
1:13.6	that? We must believe that Jesus is the Lord and that God hath raised him from the
1:20.7	death, and all that is included in those two statements. But then having considered that,
1:27.4	we've gone on to consider in the second place
1:29.6	what we may call the character or the nature of saving faith. And here we have seen that the
1:37.2	emphasis is upon the heart. The apostle repeats it. Shall believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead.
1:46.0	With the heart men believeth unto righteousness.
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