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December 4, 2024
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November 6, 2025
After Chapter 1, I found that this book was difficult to put down. I had read from a library ebook and I now want to purchase my own personal copy.
Martyn Lloyd-Jones had been trained as a medical doctor and then later took up pastoring. He served as an associate pastor at Westminster Chapel in London when G. Campbell Morgan was the head pastor. Then Lloyd-Jones became the head pastor, a position he held for decades at Westminster Chapel. He was greatly admired as a Bible teacher in his lifetime and even now, decades after his passing.
I find it bizarre there are many who are Cessationists who claim Lloyd-Jones was also a Cessationist. He was not, and this book proves it. Chapter 4 alone proves it. Nor was he of the Charismatic denomination as many of that movement had claimed in the past. If you're paying attention as you read, you will see there are moments where he very briefly criticizes certain incorrect beliefs of these two sides. He was from Wales, and he'd been a young boy when God poured out revival in 1904 in that little nation. Wales and nearby Ireland and Scotland have a history of revival over the centuries, and he refers to a few of these histories in the book. (Lloyd-Jones grew up hearing the stories from his elders of the 1904 Welsh Revival, including some of the miracles God had brought about. He doesn't really talk about that in this book, but if you seek out more info on him, you will find that he shared some of these fascinating stories elsewhere.)
Some highlights from this book: In Chapter 2, he compares revival to Isaac redigging his father Abraham's wells in Genesis--a comparison I've heard other preachers use in the past. However, I find Lloyd-Jones explains the comparison much better so that the illustration's meaning is clear and easy to understand. In Chapter 9, he explains that Charles Finney got revival wrong by relying on methods and leaving his methods behind for others to follow, and that those men who later tried to produce revival by following Finney's methods could not bring about true revival. In Chapter 16, Lloyd-Jones claims the baptism of the Spirit which happened in Acts 2 can happen again and again because it did happen two more times afterward according to Acts 4:31 and Acts 11:15. He points out how this baptism of the Spirit differs from what Paul commands in Ephesians 5:18 (..."be filled with the Spirit") for the latter is what we do, but the former is what can be done to us.
I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book and frequently found myself refreshed by the Spirit as I read it. I look forward to reading it again in the near future.
Martyn Lloyd-Jones had been trained as a medical doctor and then later took up pastoring. He served as an associate pastor at Westminster Chapel in London when G. Campbell Morgan was the head pastor. Then Lloyd-Jones became the head pastor, a position he held for decades at Westminster Chapel. He was greatly admired as a Bible teacher in his lifetime and even now, decades after his passing.
I find it bizarre there are many who are Cessationists who claim Lloyd-Jones was also a Cessationist. He was not, and this book proves it. Chapter 4 alone proves it. Nor was he of the Charismatic denomination as many of that movement had claimed in the past. If you're paying attention as you read, you will see there are moments where he very briefly criticizes certain incorrect beliefs of these two sides. He was from Wales, and he'd been a young boy when God poured out revival in 1904 in that little nation. Wales and nearby Ireland and Scotland have a history of revival over the centuries, and he refers to a few of these histories in the book. (Lloyd-Jones grew up hearing the stories from his elders of the 1904 Welsh Revival, including some of the miracles God had brought about. He doesn't really talk about that in this book, but if you seek out more info on him, you will find that he shared some of these fascinating stories elsewhere.)
Some highlights from this book: In Chapter 2, he compares revival to Isaac redigging his father Abraham's wells in Genesis--a comparison I've heard other preachers use in the past. However, I find Lloyd-Jones explains the comparison much better so that the illustration's meaning is clear and easy to understand. In Chapter 9, he explains that Charles Finney got revival wrong by relying on methods and leaving his methods behind for others to follow, and that those men who later tried to produce revival by following Finney's methods could not bring about true revival. In Chapter 16, Lloyd-Jones claims the baptism of the Spirit which happened in Acts 2 can happen again and again because it did happen two more times afterward according to Acts 4:31 and Acts 11:15. He points out how this baptism of the Spirit differs from what Paul commands in Ephesians 5:18 (..."be filled with the Spirit") for the latter is what we do, but the former is what can be done to us.
I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book and frequently found myself refreshed by the Spirit as I read it. I look forward to reading it again in the near future.
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