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Sermons of Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

Spiritual Gifts, Part 1

Sermons of Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

Martyn Lloyd-Jones

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8603 Ratings

🗓️ 3 April 2026

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

In this sermon on Romans 12:6 titled “Spiritual Gifts (1),” Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones encourages a look at the nature of spiritual gifts. God decides which gift to provide to each Christian but they all work in and through the very same Spirit. He reminds that there is a “diversity of operations, but the same God that worketh all in all.” Why and how are Christians to “covet” and “desire” the best gifts? How ought they seek these gifts? The listener is encouraged to learn to love the spiritual gifts and to be filled with love. Dr. Lloyd-Jones emphasizes and explains the doctrine of the body, love, and contentment. Can one “claim” a gift? Listen as Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones looks more directly at the gift of tongues, pastoring, and missions and shows the importance of understanding that gifts cannot be “claimed” or imparted by others. Some people proclaim that “the need is the call,” but this simply shows an ignorance of the doctrine concerning the call of the Spirit. Dr. Lloyd-Jones touches on baptism with the Holy Spirit, how gifts differ, and His call to the particular service. God decides the gifts, calls the Christian to a certain gift, and equips them to the service to which each of His children have been called.

Transcript

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We come this evening in our study of the Epistle to the Romans to the sixth verse in the 12th chapter.

0:07.9

The 12th chapter of Paul's Epistle to the Romans, chapter verse 6.

0:13.3

Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us,

0:19.2

whether prophecy, let us prophesy according to the proportion of faith.

0:26.5

Now, here we come, you see, to the practical application and outworking of the principles

0:33.9

that the apostle has been laying down.

0:37.3

It's most important we should carry in our

0:39.6

minds exactly what the apostle is doing here and what he's setting out to do. Having laid down

0:47.8

his great doctrine in the 11 first chapters, he now comes to the practicalities, to the living

0:53.8

of the Christian life, and he tells

0:56.2

us that the great overriding principle we must bear in our minds here is this, that we hand

1:03.3

over ourselves as if we completely to God, present our bodies a living sacrifice, which is

1:10.1

our reasonable

1:11.0

service.

1:12.6

We mustn't

1:13.0

be conformed

1:13.7

to this world,

1:14.8

but we must

1:15.3

be transformed

1:16.1

and especially

1:16.9

in the matter

1:17.8

of the

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