“How to Get the Gospel Across” on 1 Thessalonians 1:5
https://www.mljtrust.org/sermons/itinerant-preaching/how-to-get-the-gospel-across/
The world doesn't need good advice. It needs good news. It doesn't need exhortation, it needs a proclamation, our Gospel.
Advice is counsel about something that hasn’t happened yet, but you can do something about it. News is a report about something that has happened which you can’t do anything about because it has been done for you and all you can do is respond to it.
Professed converts (often) begin with a sadly mistaken notion of what is true Christianity. They imagine it consists in nothing more than a so-called "coming to Christ" and having strong inward feelings of joy and peace. And so when they find, after a time, that there is a cross to be carried, that our hearts are deceitful, and that there is a busy devil always near us — they cool down in disgust and return to their old sins...because they had really never known (were never taught) what Bible Christianity is.
“God’s Way of Reconciliation: An Exposition of Ephesians 2”
The trouble with all false evangelism is that it does not start with doctrine, it does not start by realising man’s condition. All fleshly, carnal, man-made evangelism is the result of inadequate understanding of what the apostle teaches us in the first ten verses of this second chapter of the Epistle to the Ephesians. If you and I realised that every man who is yet a sinner is absolutely dominated by ‘the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience,’ if we only understood that he is really a child of wrath and dead in trespasses and sins, we would realise that only one power can deal with such an individual, and that is the power of God, the power of the Holy Ghost. And so we would put our confidence, not in man-made organisations, but in the power of God, in the prayer that holds on to God and asks for revival and a descent of the Spirit. We would realise that nothing else can do it. We can change men superficially, we can win men to our side and to our party, we can persuade them to join a church, but we can never raise the spiritually dead; God alone can do that. The realization of these truths would of necessity determine and control all our evangelism.
“Studies in the Sermon on the Mount”
https://www.monergism.com/blog/no-true-evangelism-without-it
True evangelism, I say, because of this doctrine of sin, must always start by preaching the law. This means that we must explain that mankind is confronted by the holiness of God, by His demands, and also by the consequences of sin. It is the Son of God Himself who speaks about being cast into hell. If you do not like the doctrine of hell you are just disagreeing with Jesus Christ. He, the Son of God, believed in hell; and it is in His exposure of the true nature of sin that He teaches that sin ultimately lands men in hell. So evangelism must start with the holiness of God, the sinfulness of man, the demands of the law, the punishment meted out by the law and the eternal consequences of evil and wrongdoing. It is only the man who is brought to see his guilt in this way who flies to Christ for deliverance and redemption.
True evangelism starts like that, and obviously is primarily a call to repentance, ‘repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.’ (Acts 20:21)
Romans Chapter 7:6-25, "The Law: Its Function and Limits"
https://www.gospeltruth.net/ljrom7.htm
True evangelism always suggests the whole of the doctrine. It always has an element of law and of condemnation. It always has a reference to God. There is a superficial evangelism which puts the gospel entirely in terms of human beings. Are you unhappy? Are you worried? Do you want this or that? Come to Christ and you will get it. And so people come. They have never trembled under the holy law of God, and that is because they were never taught it...and they do not know why a person is saved.
Authority, “The Authority of Jesus Christ”
https://archive.org/details/authority0000lloy
Why are people expected to want to accept Christianity? Because it works. It does this or that. It promises you happiness. It gives you peace and joy. I suggest that this is false evangelism. The cults can give you ‘results’. (But) our one business is to preach the Lord Jesus Christ, the final Authority. We are told to declare him, and that men and women are to come face to face with him.
Lloyd-Jones preaching at Royal Albert Hall, London Nov. 28, 1935.
Can many of the evangelistic methods which were introduced some forty or fifty years ago really be justified out of the Word of God? As I read of the work of the great evangelists in the Bible I find they were not first and foremost concerned about results; they were concerned about proclaiming the word of truth. They left the increases unto Him. They were concerned above all else that the people should be brought face to face with the truth itself.
"Calvinism, Hyper-Calvinism, and Arminianism. The Responsibility of Evangelism"
https://www.mljtrust.org/sermons/itinerant-preaching/calvinism-hyper-calvinism-and-arminianism/
"Personal Evangelism" A sermon on Ephesians 2:20-22
https://www.mljtrust.org/sermons/book-of-ephesians/personal-evangelism/
When you and I become holy, we'll already be evangelists. We won't need a technique or a mechanism when we are holy... It is holy people who evangelize and attract others. And who know how to speak to them.
"The Problem of Evangelism" A sermon on 1 Thessalonians 1:5
https://www.mljtrust.org/sermons/itinerant-preaching/the-problem-of-evangelism/
You must have preachers, we must have preachers in these homelands, you must have preachers in other lands. It is the spoken word that has always been honored supremely by the Holy Spirit.
Dr. Lloyd-Jones preached 3 times on weekends; Friday night was primarily word-for-word exposition of Scripture (he preached 372 sermons on Romans October 1955 to March 1968 ending at Romans 14:17 and 260 sermons on Ephesians, October 1954 until July 1962). Sunday morning was typically more topical and doctrinal directed toward church members. "Spiritual Depression: Its Causes and Cure" sermons was delivered Sunday morning in 1954. His series on the Sermon on the Mount was delivered Sunday morning 1959 - 1960. On Sunday evening, students from all over London came to hear his messages (including J.I. Packer as a 22 year old in 1948) which were primarily evangelistic.
Preachers and Preaching p. 146
My most common experience in conversation with people [who wanted to become Westminster chapel members] was hearing that these young people [usually graduates or undergraduates] had come up to London . . . from their home churches fully believing that they were Christians. . . They went on to tell me that . . .having listened to the preaching . . . especially on Sunday nights, when my preaching was invariably evangelistic, the first thing they discovered was that they had never been Christians at all and that they were living on a false assumption. . . Then gradually they had come to see the truth clearly and experienced its power and become truly Christian.
An anointed example http://articles.ochristian.com/article538.shtml
Evangelistic Sermons at Aberavon and Old Testament Evangelistic Sermons are available
"The Evangelistic Preaching of Martyn Lloyd-Jones - Lessons for Today"