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    Dr D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones' Understanding of the Atonement, and a Personal Appreciation
    Dr D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones' Understanding of the Atonement, and a Personal Appreciation
    Dr D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones' Understanding of the Atonement, and a Personal Appreciation
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    Dr D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones' Understanding of the Atonement, and a Personal Appreciation

    By Hazlett Lynch

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    This new book on arguably the greatest Christian preacher in twentieth century Britain, if not the world, will be welcomed by all those who benefitted from the ministry of Dr D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones, whether through hearing him preach live, through his numerous books, or now through digital formats such as CDs, DVDs, or the internet.

    Dr J. E. Hazlett Lynch has been an admirer and student of Martyn Lloyd-Jones since soon after his conversion to Christ in 1971, and brings a wealth of experience and insight into his paper. The "beloved Doctor," as he is affectionately known, had an incalculable influence for good on Dr Lynch's ministry, and in this book, he puts on record some of the many lessons he learned as he read the Doctor's books, and listened to his sermons. He had the privilege of hearing Dr Lloyd-Jones preach while he was a student in Leeds in 1973, a memory he cherishes to this day.

    This new publication records his appreciation of the man after 42 years of study and reflection on what the Doctor taught him. But it does something else - and this will be news to many of Lloyd-Jones' followers; Dr Lynch has painstakingly read through most, if not all, of Lloyd-Jones' books of evangelistic sermons, and has extracted from them, in the Doctor's own words, his beliefs about the atonement, what the Gospel is, who it is for, and what God has done in Christ for the salvation of the world.

    It demonstrates that his theology is much closer to that of his great mentor, Genevan reformer, John Calvin (1509-1564) and the Puritan, Richard Baxter (1615-1691), and indeed to John and Charles Wesley, than he was to Dr John Owen (1616-1683) or to Westminster theology. Though a Presbyterian by upbringing and ordination, Dr Lloyd-Jones viewed his supreme standard in matters of faith and practice to be the Holy Scriptures, and not any man-made confessional standard, good as many of them are.

    His doctrine of the atonement, then, is seen to be authentically Calvinistic, or Amyraldian; which is but another way of affirming that his soteriology was thoroughly biblical.

    Read for yourself what the Doctor believed and taught, and then draw your own conclusions; but be prepared for many surprises on the way!
    Half of the book is given over to extracts from Lloyd-Jones' books of evangelistic sermons, in number, some 359 of them.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHazlett Lynch
    Release dateJan 13, 2012
    ISBN9781466032910
    Dr D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones' Understanding of the Atonement, and a Personal Appreciation
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    Hazlett Lynch

    Northern Ireland man, Dr J. E. Hazlett Lynch, is happily married to Margaret (in 1973), and they have two sons together, David and Stephen. Dr Lynch has a wide range of experience, expertise and abilities, having university qualifications in Building, Theology, Education, Reconciliation Dynamics, Terrorism, Victimhood, and Workplace Bullying. This explains why he has written and published books with wide-ranging subject matter. He is keen to share this information with the wider reading public.

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      Dr D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones' Understanding of the Atonement, and a Personal Appreciation - Hazlett Lynch

      Dr D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones’ Understanding of the Atonement - in his own words.

      Dr. D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones (1899-1981)

      Compiled by

      J. E. Hazlett Lynch

      Copyright 2013 J. E. Hazlett Lynch

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      Dr D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones’ Understanding of the Atonement - in his own words.

      Compiled by

      J. E. Hazlett Lynch

      INTRODUCTORY REMARKS

      Without question, when the name of Dr D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones is mentioned, it is always associated in the minds of Christians with preaching. He was the preacher par excellence in the twentieth century United Kingdom, if not in the world. Preaching characterised him more than anything else. In fact, his wife, Bethan, defined him as a man of prayer, and as an evangelist. He was mightily used by God to bring many sinners to the Saviour and also to build up God’s saints.

      In the mid-1920s, when he was considering the call of God into the preaching ministry, he knew that he had some skills in medicine but not that he had any preaching skills. But there was something else he was convinced about – he knew what had to be preached, and he trusted God to help him to do that.

      But what did he preach? He preached the everlasting Gospel (Rev.14:6). Like Paul, he did not shy away from declaring to the people the whole counsel of God (Ac.20:27). As a preacher, he brought God with him into the pulpit, and his hearers knew it.

      What was the Gospel that he preached? As a Bible-centred evangelist, he preached Christ and Him crucified (1 Cor.2:2). He did not see it as a good or necessary thing for mortals to delve into the secret mysteries of the Lord, because these belong to Him alone (Dt.29:29). He did, however, declare what God had been pleased to reveal of His will to mankind as found in the Holy Scriptures – that belongs to us and to our children.

      Specifically, then, he preached a Saviour Who died for the whole world to bear away its sin (Jn.1:29). He preached Christ as the Saviour of the world (Jn.4:39, 42; 1 Jn.4:14). The Doctor preached a Saviour Who was sufficient to save the whole world, mindful that only those who trust in Christ will be effectually saved by Christ in His death. In line with historic reformed and evangelical thinking (for example, men such as Calvin, Amyraut, Baxter, Hodge, Dabney, Ryle), DML-J’s Saviour was sufficient to save the whole world, but efficient for the salvation of the elect only. His balanced Biblicism, like Calvin’s before him, is most commendable.

      This compilation of DML-J’s soteriology will not win the plaudits of all within international Calvinist, but it will warm the hearts of every true Christian evangelist the world over.

      These sermons were mostly evangelistic, so when reading them, be careful to bear this fact in mind. He was preaching to largely mixed congregations, so he treated all his hearers as unconverted; hence the use of ‘we,’ ‘us,’ ‘our,’ etc. It is remarkable that when he was not preaching explicitly evangelistic sermons, his basic understanding of Christ in His death still shone through in its most brilliant colours. To him, Christ was not just a universal Saviour when preaching evangelistically; he was the universal Saviour at all times.

      The Christian Church owes the Doctor a huge debt of gratitude for the legacy he has left behind for future generations. Without seeking to canonise the man in any way, I am sure that preachers can learn from his preaching content what the authentic Gospel really is, without trying to emulate his preaching method (no one can do that in any case). Let us take his content to heart and preach that in the power of the Holy Spirit.

      I heartily commend this compilation to you as you listen to him tell you in his own words what the authentic Gospel is.

      EXTRACTS FROM DR D. MARTYN LLOYD-JONES'S SERMONS THAT DEMONSTRATE HIS AUTHENTIC CALVINISM OR AMYRALDIANISM

      The following are updated extracts taken directly from Dr D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones's evangelistic sermons (in the main), and which demonstrate his closeness to John Calvin on the meaning of the death of Christ, otherwise known as authentic Calvinism; or to put it in other terms, they demonstrate his unashamed Amyraldianism, his Baxterianism. It must be understood that when he appears to use particularistic language, it is in the context of evangelistic preaching. The message is particular to those to whom he is preaching the Gospel, and his assumption is that on those occasions, all those present are unsaved sinners who need Christ. It would therefore be entirely inappropriate to conclude that Dr Lloyd-Jones has in his mind any notion of a particularist redemption purchased by Christ, and only for the elect. He makes it abundantly clear in his preaching that the death of Christ was designed to 'take away the sin of the world.'

      Because of what you will read here, you might decide not to read any more of the Doctor's books of sermon. However, and this is what I trust your response will be, I trust that you will look at these extracts very carefully and weigh them up with what the Scriptures clearly teach, with the teaching of Calvin as exemplified in his sermons, and then compare them with the general ethos of your church's doctrinal standards. If there is a clash, then go with the Scriptures, not your church's confessional standards. Remind yourself if this transpires that your church's confessional standards are only subordinate standards, and that your church still professes to hold the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments to be the only infallible and inspired Word of God and sufficient for all matters of faith and practice, and the church's supreme standard. I also trust that you, like me, will conclude that Dr Martyn Lloyd-Jones was faithful and true to the Scripture in his understanding and preaching of the everlasting Gospel (Rev.14:6).

      EVANGELISTIC SERMONS, 1983. Sermons, Sandfields, 1927 – 1938.

      1. This to me is the whole of Christianity. The ablest and the best man in the world cannot save himself, but God, who can do everything, can save all – even the most ignorant and the worst and vilest. (9).

      2. …it is the belief of the Christian, who believes in the unity of the human race and who regards all men and women as equal, it is his belief that if one man can be saved, all can be saved. (17).

      3. …there’s enough gospel in that one fact alone to save the whole world. (18).

      4. …they immediately began to see that He could save all people. ‘We know that this is indeed the Christ, the Saviour of the world’! (21).

      5. ’He who has saved me can save anyone, can save the whole world,’ says the Christian. (21).

      6. ...and know that this is indeed the Christ, the Saviour of the world. (22).

      7. It is the voice of God calling us from sin unto salvation. It is our heavenly Father sending us a message of pardon and forgiveness and calling us back to our home. (26, 27).

      8. The breadth of scope, the all-inclusiveness of the gospel, becomes very apparent when we compare it with every other teaching which has ever been held before mortal man. (40).

      9. His message was that ‘God so loved that He gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have everlasting life.’ Nothing could be wider and more inclusive. Those were his constant words – ‘the world’, ‘whosoever’! He seemed to see a hope for everyone and everybody!" (41).

      10. "But here in this passage with which we propose to deal this evening, we find a strange limitation. Here we find this Person – whose ministry was characterised above

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