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See AllThe thirteenth volume of Martyn Lloyd-Jones’ exposition of Paul’s Epistle to the Romans, Life in Two Kingdoms is a tour de force of Christian teaching on the church, the state, and the individual Christian’s relationship to the ‘higher powers’. One mark of Lloyd-Jones’ treatment is specific, straightforward application. One such application concerns capital punishment—the state’s use […]
ReadD. Martyn Lloyd-Jones (1899-1981), or ‘the Doctor’ of Westminster Chapel, was known for the clarity of his thought, the thoroughness of his exposition of Scripture, and the living vitality of his application of the Bible to the lives of his hearers. His treatment of Romans 13:1-7 exemplifies these qualities. To commend this teaching, which is […]
ReadLife in Two Kingdoms, volume 13 of Martyn Lloyd-Jones’ series of expositions of Romans, covers Romans 13:1–7. This is, as Dr Lloyd-Jones notes, the locus classicus—the classic place—where the Holy Spirit, through Paul, addresses the question of the state: the ‘powers that be’. The following excerpt is taken from pages 51 to 53 of that […]
ReadOn this day in 1885, Lord Shaftesbury (Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury) entered the presence of his Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ. The Sunday following, C. H. Spurgeon preached a sermon entitled Departed Saints Yet Living on Luke 20:37, 38. In it, he related a tribute to the late Earl which is moving, spiritual, […]
ReadOn this day in 1885, Lord Shaftesbury (Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury) entered the presence of his Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ. The Sunday following, C. H. Spurgeon preached a sermon entitled Departed Saints Yet Living on Luke 20:37, 38. In it, he related a tribute to the late Earl which is moving, spiritual, […]
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