{"podcast":{"title":"Sermons of Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones","slug":"sermons-of-dr-martyn-lloyd-jones-391506","podcast_index_feed_id":391506,"rss_url":"https://www.mljtrust.org/sermons/podcast/","website_url":"https://www.mljtrust.org/","image_url":"https://www.mljtrust.org/static/images/mlj-podcast-1404.jpg","author":"Martyn Lloyd-Jones","episode_count":50,"summary":"The MLJ Trust presents original audio recordings of the sermons of Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones (1899-1981). Dr. Lloyd-Jones was a Welsh minister who preached and taught in the Reformed tradition. He is considered by many evangelical leaders today to be an authority on biblical truth and the sufficiency of Scripture. Dr. Lloyd-Jones’ principal ministry was at Westminster Chapel, in central London, from 1939-1968, where he delivered multi-year expositions on books of the bible such as Romans, Ephesians and the Gospel of John.","last_synced_at":"2026-08-01T12:20:37.869895+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/sermons-of-dr-martyn-lloyd-jones-391506"},"episode":{"title":"All Spiritual Blessings","slug":"all-spiritual-blessings","published_at":"2026-07-23T04:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/sermons-of-dr-martyn-lloyd-jones-391506/all-spiritual-blessings","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/sermons-of-dr-martyn-lloyd-jones-391506","url":"https://www.mljtrust.org/sermon/all-spiritual-blessings/","audio_url":"https://media.blubrry.com/mljsermons/sermons.mljtrust.org/4005-all-spiritual-blessings.mp3","summary":"How does one come to enjoy spiritual blessings? What are the spiritual blessings in Ephesians 1? In this sermon on Ephesians 1:3 titled “All Spiritual Blessings…,” Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones focuses on two themes. He insists that the Christian only enjoys blessings through Christ. While acknowledging God gives common grace to everyone, the Holy Spirit gives unique grace that only Christians enjoy. Dr. Lloyd-Jones connects Paul’s words in Ephesians to his other letter to the Colossians (1:19; 2:3), showing the absolute necessity of going to God through Christ, the mediator. A second blessing Christians enjoy through Christ is that His grace flows through the Holy Spirit. The sovereign work of the Spirit quickens, convicts, enables, and keeps the Christian. Dr. Lloyd-Jones recaptures the “other-worldly” nature of the Christian’s blessings by criticizing movements that insist that blessings are of this world. The Christian, says Dr. Lloyd-Jones, does not deny or despise the world, but this is different from setting their affections upon it. If they do not keep an appropriate distance, they forget that this is a fallen world and that their citizenship is in heaven.","meta_description":"How does one come to enjoy spiritual blessings? What are the spiritual blessings in Ephesians 1? In this sermon on Ephesians 1:3 titled “All Spiritual Ble…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":null,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/sermons-of-dr-martyn-lloyd-jones-391506/episodes/all-spiritual-blessings/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/sermons-of-dr-martyn-lloyd-jones-391506/all-spiritual-blessings.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}