From page 156-157, we read:

Distractions from holding to the centrality of Christ are repeatedly to be found throughout his [Lloyd-Jones] sermons:

Beware of regarding anything as the work of the Spirit in you, no matter how striking the phenomena may be, if it has not led you to the Lord Jesus Christ … Our great enemy tries to counterfeit these things, and he can produce phenomena, but he never leads to the Lord Jesus Christ. [1] The devil turns people’s attention to phenomena, to the experiences, to the excitement. Any teaching or preaching which does not keep the Lord central and vital and overruling everything is already wrong teaching.

The lesson of Christian biography, he reminds us, is that the saints

were more concerned about holiness and about God and his love and knowledge of him than they were about the experience.

The claims of some that ‘experience of Christ’ supersedes any need for adherence to the word of God, and orthodox belief, he strongly denied.

I am not interested in the experience of a man who is still wrong in his doctrine. The test of the baptism with the Spirit is that it leads a man to the truth and to an understanding of the truth.

It is to the word that the Spirit of truth directs attention. Thus, he would often say, revival comes,

while God’s people are met together and the word is being expounded and unfolded. That is the way in which it comes. And again let me make this clear; the expositions need not be about the Holy Spirit, or about the baptism in the Holy Spirit. Many friends need to be reminded of this at the present time.

Irrespective of what a man may say about a vision or an experience that he has had, if the teaching cannot be found in Scripture, or be reconciled, with Scripture, it is to be rejected as false teaching. Even though the remainder of his teaching may be scriptural and accurate, he is in error and he must not be follwed.

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Lectures to My Students (Hardcover)

Publisher: Banner of Truth
Author: Spurgeon, Charles H.
ISBN-13: 9780851519685
Binding: Hardcover
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The substance of Spurgeon’s regular Friday afternoon addresses to the students of the Pastor’s College (founded by Spurgeon in 1857 to train others for the ministry), this new complete and unabridged Banner edition, newly typeset and smyth-sewn, contains all the lectures in the original first and second series, including “The Minister’s Self-Watch,” “The Preacher’s Private Prayer,” “The Minister’s Fainting Fits,” “The Holy Spirit in Connection with our Ministry,” “The Need of Decision for the Truth,” and “On Conversion as our Aim.” This edition also includes a third series of lectures, originally published as “The Art of illustration,” and Spurgeon’s Commenting and Commentaries, which contains two further lectures and a fascinating and often humorously annotated catalogue of commentaries.

Reflecting on nature of this work, Spurgeon writes, “The solemn work with which the Christian ministry concerns itself demands a man’s all, and that all at its best. To engage in it half-heartedly is an insult to God and man. Slumber must forsake our eyelids sooner than men shall be allowed to perish. Yet we are all prone to sleep as do others, and students, among the rest, are apt to act the part of the foolish virgins; therefore have I sought to speak out my whole soul, in the hope that I might not create or foster dullness in others. May He in whose hand are the churches and their pastors bless these words to younger brethren in the ministry, and if so, I shall count it more than a full reward, and shall gratefully praise the Lord.”

No New Testament epistle is more foundational to the faith than Romans, and no exposition of Paul’s letter is more insightful than that of Lloyd-Jones. Drawn from his messages at Westminster Chapel from 1955 to 1968, this masterful series of sermons blends evangelical interpretation with practical applications to provide sound doctrinal teaching on this fundamental document. 14 hardcovers, from Banner of Truth.