The Preacher's Message, Part 2

Sermons of Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

Martyn Lloyd-Jones

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 6 February 2026

⏱️ 48 minutes

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In his sermon on Romans 10:14–17 titled “The Preacher’s Message (2),” Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones talks about the great joy believers have within the gospel. Reading from this Scripture passage, he reminds the listener of the basics of the good news and how it should inspire Christians. He says that preaching is God’s chief appointed role for sharing the gospel to the congregation and unbelievers. Because of this responsibility, it’s important for preachers to integrate the good news into their message. Dr. Lloyd-Jones offers this suggestion with a warning to the congregation: do not grow tired of hearing the gospel. It is easy for Christians to forget the amazing power bestowed by God to those who believe. Dr. Lloyd-Jones takes an opportunity to remind Christians of what they have in Christ. He says that God gave His Son for the forgiveness of sins simply because He is rich in mercy and grace, as seen in Ephesians 2. Dr. Lloyd-Jones expounds upon the daily intercession Christ takes for Christians at the right hand of the Father. He goes on to describe the groaning of the Holy Spirit that prays when believers don’t know what to pray for. With these incredible privileges, Dr. Lloyd-Jones concludes with a call to obey the gospel and take joy in the promises within.

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0:00.0	I read this evening in the Epistle to the Romans in chapter 10 from verse 14 to 70.
0:08.2	How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed?
0:12.8	And how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard?
0:16.2	And how shall they hear without a preacher?
0:19.6	And how shall they preach except they be sent, as it
0:23.1	is written? How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace and bring glad
0:29.6	tidings of good things? But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Isaiah saith, Lord,
0:37.2	who hath believed our report, so then faith cometh by hearing
0:42.4	and hearing by the word of God. Now, we resume these studies in the epistle to the Romans
0:49.6	at the point where we left off three weeks ago.
0:55.3	And therefore, perhaps it would be as well that I should remind you of exactly what we are doing at the present moment.
1:01.7	In these verses, from 14 to 17, in this 10th chapter, the apostle, you remember, takes up this question which in a sense he has raised
1:14.4	by the statement in verse 13, whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.
1:22.0	He said that in winding up his argument and his statement about the way of salvation. The Jews are outside the kingdom. They're not Christians because of their tragic error with regard to the way of salvation. They were seeking it by works instead of by faith. And the apostle there quotes that statement from the prophet Joel, where the gospel
1:48.5	way of salvation had been anticipated and where God had given this revelation of it to
1:55.0	the prophet as he had to other prophets also.
1:57.8	And it is a way which is based on calling on the name of the Lord. And
2:04.6	whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved. Very well. Now then the
2:09.2	apostle takes this up from the more practical standpoint. He says, how shall they call on him
2:17.1	in whom they have not believed?
2:19.7	He won't call on the Lord until you believed in the Lord. Then how shall they believe in
2:25.3	him of whom they have not heard? And how shall they hear without a preacher? And how shall
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