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Sunday 30th October 2011:
... MLJ.5220 A Right View of Life
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This sermon is a fine example of Dr Martyn Lloyd-Jones' God-given ability to draw vital principles from passages of Scripture that seem to be of limited relevance to many readers of the Bible.
Preaching from the account of the Danites capturing the city of Laish, in chapter 18 of the Book of Judges, the Doctor draws out four principles for life that are as relevant today as they were in 1961 when he preached the sermon, and as relevant as they were all those hundreds of years before Christ’s birth.
We have produced a simple ‘video’ clip that captures the first principle from this sermon: that life is not simple!
Because life is not simple, it is utterly futile for anyone to come up with a simple approach to life, one that they claim will solve all of life’s problems.
Moving on from that first principle, the Doctor examines the way of life adopted by the Sidonian inhabitants of Laish, drawing out a second principle: that a selfish approach to life – the pursuit of pleasure – is completely wrong.
That way of life is wrong because it fails to take any account whatsoever of things that might happen in the future. It takes no account of the fact that disasters do happen, and that they can come upon us unexpectedly, at any time – the third principle.
Following on from this the fourth principle emerges: in taking a selfish approach to life, people find themselves without a deliverer to help them in their time of greatest need. So when disaster comes they have no one to save them, just as with this separatist group of Sidonians.
However, in concluding his sermon the Doctor reminds us that there is no need to put ourselves in that position; for there is a deliverer who is ready to help us!
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