What Happened to Martin Lloyd-Jones? Theologies in Contrast, Part 3
Behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah, not like the covenant that I made with their fathers on the day when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt … I will be their God, and they shall be my people...For I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more. (Jer. 31: 31-34)
In part three of this four-part series, Pastor John examines the nature and effects of Lloyd-Jones’s preaching of B.B. Warfield’s dictum of God and judgment, which stresses the power of the Law to produce repentance. Pastor John contrasts this approach with that of Denney, who insists that only the Gospel of God’s self-sacrificing love in Christ can produce a heart-changing grasp of what sin means to God. He also contrasts the prophetic preaching of Lloyd-Jones with the New Covenant preaching of Jeremiah.
Excerpts shared are also taken from James Denney, The Atonement and the Modern Mind [London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1910], 88-89, 90.