{"id":3297,"date":"2008-10-20T02:50:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-20T02:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adrianwarnock.com\/2008\/10\/mlj-monday-lloyd-jones-summarizes-the-gospel\/"},"modified":"2017-09-16T18:37:31","modified_gmt":"2017-09-16T17:37:31","slug":"mlj-monday-lloyd-jones-summarizes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/adrianwarnock\/2008\/10\/mlj-monday-lloyd-jones-summarizes\/","title":{"rendered":"MLJ MONDAY – Lloyd-Jones Summarizes the Gospel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

As Christians we must constantly remind ourselves both of the complexities and the glorious depths of the mysterious gospel of Christ, and of its ability to be summarized in a gloriously simple statement. We must keep checking ourselves! Do we actually believe what the Bible says? This is, to me, a fantastic summary of the message all Christians are meant to proclaim:<\/p>\n

<\/a>[Jesus] deliberately went to the cross and suffered the shame and the spitting and the indignity of it all; and this He did to bear my sins; to receive my punishment; to suffer the penalty that my guilt had deserved; and infinitely more important, to deliver me from the bondage of sin and of Satan; to separate me unto Himself; and to make of me a man zealous of good works, delighting in holiness. He died; He was raised from the dead; He returned to heaven, and He sent down the Holy Spirit on the day of Pentecost in order that I might have the assurance of my faith, and the joy, and the power. He has given me a new life and a new nature; He has joined me unto Himself; I am a member of His mystical body; I am a child of God, I am an heir of heaven.<\/p>\n

That is what knowing Christ means, learning Him, hearing Him, being taught in Him! I believe the teaching that nought that defileth shall be allowed to enter into heaven; that heaven is eternally pure and holy, the antithesis of this world and sin, the opposite to hell. That is how I have learned Christ, that is how I have heard Him, that is how I have been taught in Him\u2014that I am in Him the living Head, and a part of Him; and that beyond this life and death and the veil, I am going to be with Him forever and forever. If you believe these things, says Paul, you will \u2018have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness\u2019.<\/p>\n

David Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Christian Unity<\/em>, Studies in Ephesians, chapter 4, verses 1 through 16 (Grand Rapids MI: Baker Book House, 1972), 115. Also available electronically from Logos Bible Software<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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