Why Christ Died

Sermons of Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

Martyn Lloyd-Jones

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 16 January 2026

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Romans 10:9-10 — What is the content of saving faith? Why is the death and resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ significant? In this sermon on Romans 10:9–10 titled “Why Christ Died,” Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones addresses these vital questions. The belief in the death, burial, and resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ is central to the Christian faith. It is these beliefs that form the heart of the Christian faith because only through Jesus becoming a man and dying for the sins of fallen people can God forgive sinners. Jesus came to this earth in the form of a servant in order to die and the resurrection declared not only that Christ had died for sinners, but it declared His victory over death, sin, and Satan. Christians have a living Savior who, after atoning for sin, ascended into heaven where He now rules over the whole earth and from where He will come to judge the living and the dead. The resurrection, explains Dr. Lloyd-Jones, is God’s public proclamation to the whole universe that he is satisfied with His son who has honored the law completely. God is proclaiming that He and His law are completely satisfied.

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0:00.0	We continue this evening our study of the words that are to be found in Paul's Epistle to the Romans
0:05.5	in chapter 10, verses 9 and 10.
0:09.8	Verse is 9 and 10 in the 10th chapter of Paul's Epistle to the Romans,
0:15.2	that if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus,
0:19.7	and shall believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from
0:22.9	the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart men believeth unto righteousness, and with the
0:30.6	mouth confession is made unto salvation. Now we've defined these two verses as the Apostle's statement or definition of what is meant by saving faith.
0:44.3	It comes as an explanation of what he's been saying in the preceding verses.
0:50.8	Now, we have divided up the method like this.
0:55.3	First of all, the apostle gets us to consider the content of saving faith.
1:00.4	What is the content?
1:01.8	What does it say?
1:04.1	And then we'll have to consider, as he puts it before us here, the nature of the character of saving faith, and then
1:12.2	thirdly the proof of saving faith. But we are at the moment considering the content of saving
1:18.8	faith. It's very important that we should realize the richness of the content of this definition.
1:26.2	What he says is this, if thou shall confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus,
1:30.8	that Jesus is Lord, and shall believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead,
1:37.2	thou shalt be saved. Now there are two divisions, therefore, in this matter of the content of saving faith.
1:45.2	The first is the Lord Jesus, which means that Jesus is Lord.
1:50.8	We've considered it in something of the richness of its content.
1:54.7	It's a great declaration that he is none less than the eternal Son of God, the Lord of Glory,
2:00.1	and all that we've seen involved
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