Sermon on Love, Part 2

Sermons of Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

Martyn Lloyd-Jones

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 12 April 2026

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Becoming a Christian means becoming part of a family. The Christian family is not a natural family but a supernatural one. When one is born again, they see that the same is true for other Christians. The apostle Paul teaches Christians that they are to love brothers and sisters in the faith as though they were brothers and sisters in blood. In this sermon on Romans 12:9–11 titled “Sermon on Love, Part 2,” Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones warns that this love is not phony love. It is not based upon positive circumstances and not the same as merely “liking” each member of the body of Christ. It is an innate or instinctive love as one has for blood family. There is a strong chance, warns Dr. Lloyd-Jones, a Christian will not have instinctive affections for other Christians. What are they to do? They cannot base their love on feelings since feelings are fickle. He exhorts the Christian to begin with doctrine. The Christian works out their doctrine of regeneration and the teaching of Scripture regarding the household of God. Christians have a bond of faith which surpasses even the natural bonds of blood. Dr. Lloyd-Jones asks the pressing question of believers: what do they feel about their fellow Christians? Listen as Dr. Lloyd-Jones stirs the listener to consider brotherly love and showing honor to the body of Christ.

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0:00.0	We continue this evening our studies in the 12th chapter of Paul's Epistle to the Romans,
0:06.4	and we are now dealing with this subsection that starts in verse 9. Let me read, therefore,
0:13.2	verses 9, 10, and 11. Let love be without dissimulation. Abhor that which is evil,
0:21.3	cleave to that which is good.
0:24.0	Be kindly affectioned one to another
0:26.1	with brotherly love,
0:28.4	in honour, preferring one another,
0:31.0	not slothful in business,
0:33.1	fervent in spirit,
0:34.9	serving the Lord.
0:36.6	Now, we began a consideration of this section last Friday evening,
0:42.8	and here we indicated we are dealing with the apostles' injunctions and instructions to us as Christian people
0:49.1	in our general relationships as Christian people, both with other Christians and with those
0:55.8	who are not Christian. Until this point, he's been dealing chiefly with the gifts which are
1:02.7	given to believers by the Holy Spirit as they are manifested in ministry in the church in various
1:08.8	ways. But now he moves to a wider sphere. And we saw that in the
1:15.2	ninth verse, he lays down the two great controlling fundamental principles that govern and
1:23.3	control the whole of Christian conduct. We've always got to start with these. If we don't,
1:29.7	we shall go astray. And it seems to me so often that we do fail as Christian people in our
1:36.3	conduct and particular behavior because we approach these problems directly instead of indirectly.
1:44.0	We start with a particular problem instead of starting
1:47.1	with these two fundamental principles. And they were, as we saw last Friday night, this great
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