Martyn Lloyd Jones
1899-1981
A revival is something that can only be explained by the direct action and intervention of God. These events belong to the order of things that men cannot produce and if you can explain what is happening… then it is not revival.
In revival you get this curious strange mixture as it were, of great conviction of sin and great joy, great sense of the terror of the Lord and great thanksgiving and praise.
There is what somebody once called a ‘Divine disorder’ always in revival, some groaning and agonizing under conviction, others praising God for the great salvation.
Revival leads to crowded and prolonged meetings, time seems to be forgotten,
people seem to have entered into eternity; the body and the needs of the flesh are forgotten.
Prayer is beyond any question the highest activity of the human soul. Man is at his greatest and highest when upon his knees he comes face to face with God.
The terrible, tragic fallacy of the last hundred years has been to think that all man's troubles are due to his environment, and that to change the man you have nothing to do but change his environment. That is a tragic fallacy. It overlooks the fact that it was in Paradise that man fell.
If we believe that Jesus of Nazareth is the only begotten Son of God and that He came into this world and went to the cross of Calvary and died for our sins and rose again in order to justify us and to give us life anew and prepare us for heaven-if you really believe that, there is only one inevitable deduction, namely that He is entitled to the whole of our lives, without any limit whatsoever.
How easy it is to read the Scriptures and give a kind of nominal assent to the truth and yet never to appropriate what it tells us!
When the church is absolutely different from the world, she invariably attracts it. It is then that the world is made to listen to her message, though it may hate it at first
To love to preach is one thing, to love those to whom we preach quite another.
[Jesus] must have control not only in the big things, but in the little things also; not only over what we do, but how we do it. We must submit to Him and His way as He has been pleased to reveal it in the Bible; and if what we do does not conform to this pattern, it is an assertion of our will, it is disobedience, and as repellent as the sin of witchcraft.
In revival you get this curious strange mixture as it were, of great conviction of sin and great joy, great sense of the terror of the Lord and great thanksgiving and praise.
There is what somebody once called a ‘Divine disorder’ always in revival, some groaning and agonizing under conviction, others praising God for the great salvation.
Revival leads to crowded and prolonged meetings, time seems to be forgotten,
people seem to have entered into eternity; the body and the needs of the flesh are forgotten.
Prayer is beyond any question the highest activity of the human soul. Man is at his greatest and highest when upon his knees he comes face to face with God.
The terrible, tragic fallacy of the last hundred years has been to think that all man's troubles are due to his environment, and that to change the man you have nothing to do but change his environment. That is a tragic fallacy. It overlooks the fact that it was in Paradise that man fell.
If we believe that Jesus of Nazareth is the only begotten Son of God and that He came into this world and went to the cross of Calvary and died for our sins and rose again in order to justify us and to give us life anew and prepare us for heaven-if you really believe that, there is only one inevitable deduction, namely that He is entitled to the whole of our lives, without any limit whatsoever.
How easy it is to read the Scriptures and give a kind of nominal assent to the truth and yet never to appropriate what it tells us!
When the church is absolutely different from the world, she invariably attracts it. It is then that the world is made to listen to her message, though it may hate it at first
To love to preach is one thing, to love those to whom we preach quite another.
[Jesus] must have control not only in the big things, but in the little things also; not only over what we do, but how we do it. We must submit to Him and His way as He has been pleased to reveal it in the Bible; and if what we do does not conform to this pattern, it is an assertion of our will, it is disobedience, and as repellent as the sin of witchcraft.