The Preacher's Message, Part 1

Sermons of Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

Martyn Lloyd-Jones

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 5 February 2026

⏱️ 44 minutes

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In his sermon on Romans 10:14–17 titled “The Preacher’s Message (1),” Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones tackles an important question: what are preachers supposed to preach? Drawing from Paul’s writing in this passage, he reminds that preaching is God’s primary purpose for delivering the gospel. How is a person supposed to judge if a pastor is exercising good preaching? Dr. Lloyd-Jones devises a test. If the message does not bring “glad tidings,” it should probably be reconsidered. The good news is called the good news for a reason, he says. The incredible salvation believers have through the grace of God is cause for celebration. Dr. Lloyd-Jones gives three common examples of people preaching without the gospel’s joy. He says to be wary of people saying Christians are supposed to bring the kingdom; the kingdom is already coming. He says to look out for people who preach strictly on Christ’s morals as morals are not God’s grace. He also says to beware of preachers who tell the congregation to put their faith in the church; the church is not the avenue to salvation. With that, Dr. Lloyd-Jones concludes his sermon in stating that the one true faith believers have is in Jesus Christ and the joy that comes with it.

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0:00.0	We are considering at the moment the words found in Paul's epistle to the Romans in chapter
0:05.0	10, verses 14 to 17.
0:08.5	How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed?
0:12.3	And how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard?
0:15.6	And how shall they hear without a preacher?
0:18.3	And how shall they preach except they be sent, as it is written? How beautiful
0:22.7	are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace and bring glad tidings of good things.
0:30.4	But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Isaiah saith Lord, who hath believed our report,
0:36.5	so then faith cometh by hearing and hearing by
0:41.0	the word of God. Now, we are examining at the moment, you remember, verses 14 and 15, where the
0:48.7	apostle shows us how the message of salvation becomes known to mankind. Here is what I've called the general
0:58.7	call of the gospel. And his argument is that God's way of making this message known or extending
1:07.7	this call is through preaching, and that to that end he calls and sends
1:14.5	men to preach this message of salvation. Now, having considered, therefore, the calling and the
1:24.3	sending of the preacher, we have started considering the message of the preacher,
1:30.0	the message that is heralded and proclaimed by these men whom God sends in this way.
1:38.1	And we began our consideration of the message last Friday night by saying that the message obviously is about
1:46.6	him. How shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? And how shall they believe in
1:52.3	him of whom they have not heard? Therefore, obviously, the message of the preacher is a message
1:58.4	about him. And I indicated there that it means that it is a message
2:03.4	primarily always about the Lord Jesus Christ as to his person and as to the facts concerning
2:11.5	him. That of course is what you get recorded in the Gospels. That is why the Gospels come first in the New Testament.
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