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David Martyn Lloyd-Jones (1899–1981). Born on December 20, 1899, in Cardiff, Wales, Martyn Lloyd-Jones was a Welsh Protestant minister and physician, renowned as one of the 20th century’s greatest expository preachers. Raised in a Calvinistic Methodist family, he trained at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital, London, earning an MD by 1921 and becoming assistant to royal physician Sir Thomas Horder. Converted in 1926 after wrestling with human nature’s flaws, he left medicine to preach, accepting a call to Bethlehem Forward Movement Mission in Aberavon, Wales, in 1927, where his passionate sermons revitalized the congregation. In 1939, he joined Westminster Chapel, London, serving as co-pastor with G. Campbell Morgan and sole pastor from 1943 until 1968, preaching to thousands through verse-by-verse exposition. A key figure in British evangelicalism, he championed Reformed theology and revival, co-founding the Puritan Conference and Banner of Truth Trust. Lloyd-Jones authored books like Spiritual Depression (1965), Preaching and Preachers (1971), and multi-volume sermon series on Romans and Ephesians. Married to Bethan Phillips in 1927, he had two daughters, Elizabeth and Ann, and died on March 1, 1981, in London. He said, “The business of the preacher is to bring the Bible alive and make it speak to the people of today.”
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Paul exhorts Timothy to continually keep the gift of God within him at full flame, using the metaphor of kindling a fire to emphasize the need to keep the zeal and passion for ministry burning brightly. Various commentators and theologians stress the importance of not allowing spiritual gifts to diminish but to actively stir them up, using them for the benefit of others and for the glory of God. The present tense in 'stir up the gift' conveys the idea of continuous action, urging Timothy to keep the flame of his spiritual gifts blazing despite challenges and difficulties.
Kingdom of God
The kingdom of God really means the reign of God; it means the law and the rule of God. . . . In one sense the kingdom of God has already come. It came when the Lord Jesus was here. He said, "If I with the finger of God cast out devils, no doubt the kingdom of God is come upon you." He said in effect, "The kingdom of God is here now; I am exercising this power, this sovereignty, this majesty, this dominion; this is the kingdom of God" . . . . The kingdom of God is also here at this moment in the hearts and lives of all who submit to Him, in all who believe in Him. The kingdom of God is present in the . . . heart of all those who are truly Christian. Christ reigns in such people. But the day is yet to come when His kingdom shall have been established here upon the earth. . . That day is coming. The whole message of the Bible looks forward to that. Christ came down from heaven to earth to found, to establish, and to bring in this kingdom. He is still engaged upon that task and will be until the end, when it shall have been completed. The He will, according to Paul, hand it back to God the Father, "that God may be all in all." . . . When we pray, "Thy kingdom come," we are praying for the success of the gospel, its sway and power; we are praying for the conversion of men and women; we are praying that the kingdom of God may come. . . everywhere in the world. . . . It means that we should be anticipating the day when all sin and evil and wrong and everything that is opposed to God shall finally have been routed . . . that the name of God may be glorious and magnified over all. (D. M. Lloyd-Jones, Studies in the Sermon on the Mount, Vol. II, p. 63-64). Jesus answered and said to Nicodemus, "Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God" (John 3:3).
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David Martyn Lloyd-Jones (1899–1981). Born on December 20, 1899, in Cardiff, Wales, Martyn Lloyd-Jones was a Welsh Protestant minister and physician, renowned as one of the 20th century’s greatest expository preachers. Raised in a Calvinistic Methodist family, he trained at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital, London, earning an MD by 1921 and becoming assistant to royal physician Sir Thomas Horder. Converted in 1926 after wrestling with human nature’s flaws, he left medicine to preach, accepting a call to Bethlehem Forward Movement Mission in Aberavon, Wales, in 1927, where his passionate sermons revitalized the congregation. In 1939, he joined Westminster Chapel, London, serving as co-pastor with G. Campbell Morgan and sole pastor from 1943 until 1968, preaching to thousands through verse-by-verse exposition. A key figure in British evangelicalism, he championed Reformed theology and revival, co-founding the Puritan Conference and Banner of Truth Trust. Lloyd-Jones authored books like Spiritual Depression (1965), Preaching and Preachers (1971), and multi-volume sermon series on Romans and Ephesians. Married to Bethan Phillips in 1927, he had two daughters, Elizabeth and Ann, and died on March 1, 1981, in London. He said, “The business of the preacher is to bring the Bible alive and make it speak to the people of today.”