The Sufferings of Christ

Sermons of Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

Martyn Lloyd-Jones

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 8 December 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Romans 8:32 — It is instinctive to try to spare loved ones from pain and suffering if at all possible. Yet one reads in Romans 8:32 that God the Father did not spare His Son from suffering; rather the Son was delivered up for unworthy sinners. Can such a statement by the apostle Paul be the apex of the glory of God? Can the truth of Christ’s sacrificial death on the cross and the appeasement of the Father’s wrath truly be God’s most glorious display of His love? This is the argument of Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones in this sermon on Romans 8:32 titled “The Sufferings of Christ.” He meticulously examines each word in this theologically-rich verse by the great apostle. Every word, says Dr. Lloyd-Jones, is of upmost importance in expounding the wondrous truth of God’s grace in this text. Dr. Lloyd-Jones not only makes a case for the Father graciously giving up His Son for the salvation of sinners, but he sheds light on the true agony and grief Christ felt in His sufferings. While some want to minimize Christ’s cry of dereliction, Dr. Lloyd-Jones proclaims the glory of God in the suffering of the Son.

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0:00.0	I would like to call your attention this evening to the 32nd verse in the 8th chapter of Paul's Epistle to the Romans.
0:09.3	The 32nd verse in the 8th chapter of the Epistle to the Romans.
0:15.5	He that spared not his own son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely
0:26.7	give us all things?
0:30.6	Now, I would remind you that here we are considering the second of four challenges that the apostle puts up himself to the doctrine of the final
0:42.5	perseverance of the saints that he has taught us in verses 28, 29, and 30.
0:49.9	He does this, as I say, in order to strengthen our hold and our grasp upon this most comforting
0:57.0	and concerning and encouraging doctrine. Having stated it positively, he puts up then all the possible
1:04.8	difficulties and objections, and he deals with them one by one. And the result is that after he has ridiculed them out of existence,
1:14.6	we should all be firmly rooted and established in this great doctrine,
1:20.6	this final assurance that we shall be brought by the grace and the power of God
1:26.8	unto that state in which we shall be brought by the grace and the power of God unto that state in which we shall be
1:30.0	made perfectly conformable to the image of God's son. In other words, that we shall be finally
1:37.4	glorified. The argument is that if God justifies a man, that men can be sure that he's going to be glorified.
1:46.0	Very well.
1:46.9	We are now looking at the second objection.
1:49.1	The first, of course, was in the 31st verse.
1:52.8	If God before us, who can be against us, puts up any possible challenge to the power of God,
2:02.0	and shows there's none.
2:07.7	Then here in this second challenge, he seems to raise the question,
2:14.7	is there any possibility that God's love to us can some or another become lessened?
2:21.5	Because if God doesn't love us, we're undone. If God should ever cease to love us,
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