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Preaching and Preachers

https://www.orcuttchristian.org/D.%20Martyn%20Lloyd-Jones_-preaching-and-preachers.pdf 

What is preaching? Logic on fire! Eloquent reason! Are these contradictions? Of course they are not. Reason concerning this truth ought to be mighty eloquent, as you see it in the case of the Apostle Paul and others. It is theology on fire. And a theology which does not take fire, I maintain, is a defective theology; or at least the man’s understanding of it is defective. Preaching is theology coming through a man who is on fire. A true understanding and experience of the truth must lead to this. I say again that a man who can speak about these things dispassionately has no right whatsoever to be in a pulpit; and should never be allowed to enter one.

"Logic On Fire: The Life and Legacy of Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones" (DVD) by Matthew Robinson

https://vimeo.com/ondemand/logiconfire  

"What Is Logic On Fire"

https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/what-is-logic-on-fire/ 

I know of nothing that is so strengthening to faith, nothing which so builds up my assurance, nothing which gives me such certainty about the blessed hope for which I am destined, as the understanding of Christian doctrine, the understanding of the way, yea the mechanism of salvation.

People who are saved know what they are saved from, they know what they are saved for, and they know that their supreme desire is to serve God, to honour Him, and to magnify and to glorify His great and holy name.

God’s Ultimate Purpose: An Exposition of Ephesians One

Why do I believe this gospel? Why am I not today as are so many millions in the world? Why am I interested in the Bible? Why do I believe it?

There is but one answer. It is the grace of God, who worketh in me mightily. He began the work. He will continue with it. He will finish it; and I shall stand before Him perfect, complete, and cast my crown before Him “lost in wonder, love and praise.” 

I believe increasingly that the most delicate test we can ever have of the fact that we are Christians is that we are amazed and surprised at that fact, that we never cease to wonder at ourselves. We have a sense of escape, of having been delivered. We have a deep consciousness of the privilege and a consciousness of the responsibility. We look at ourselves and say, ‘Am I of God in that sense? Is that true of me? Is it possible that I am going to be with Him and in His presence for all eternity? Is it possible that such a worm as I should be able to say, “Abba Father” and know that the eternal everlasting God is my Father in the Lord Jesus Christ?’ We are ‘of God’ – oh, the wonder and amazement of it all, the surprise and the gratitude, the praise and the thanksgiving, the privilege and the high responsibility!

At the Bible Testimony Demonstration at the Royal Albert Hall, London, 1935

https://biblicalstudies.org.uk/pdf/eusebeia/07_007.pdf

The real cause of the (unsatisfactory spiritual condition) of the Church of God on earth is to be found in the Church’s voluntary departure from a belief in the Bible as the fully inspired Word of God, and from stressing and emphasizing real evangelical truth….the Church lost her authority and power from the moment that she ceased to believe firmly in the authority of the Word of God…

We are called upon to pronounce, to declare, and to state in no uncertain way the central verities and truths of the Bible, to proclaim that it is the full and final revelation of God’s will for men and God’s salvation for mankind.

Our first call is to declare in a certain and unequivocal manner the sovereignty, the majesty, and the holiness of God; the sinfulness and the utter depravity of man, and his total inability to save and to rescue himself; and the sacrificial, expiatory, atoning death of Jesus Christ, the Son of God, on that cross on Calvary’s hill, and His glorious resurrection, as the only means and only hope of human salvation.

We must come back to that old position and declare the justice and righteousness of God as well as the love of God. We must emphasize once more the wrath of God as well as the mercy of God; and we must picture salvation, not merely as something that makes people feel happy and comfortable, but as the one and only means of saving them from hell and from the wrath of God and the punishment of sin.

May God, in His mercy and grace, deliver us from our present weakness and sentimentality, and grant unto us again boldness of utterance that we may convict and convert this sinful generation from the error of its ways.

Lloyd-Jones' first sermon at Sandfields, Aberavon, South Wales in 1927 was from 1 Corinthians 2:2 "For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified." 

It is also inscribed on his and Bethan's tombstone in Wales.