Martyn Lloyd-Jones
Joy Unspeakable (1984)
Power and Renewal in the Holy Spirit
“magisterial and challenging” –J.I. Packer
Part of the Foreword, by Peter Lewis, page 9:
Dr Lloyd-Jones’ loyalty to Scripture, his sense of history, his breadth of reading and his powerful humility before the things of God led him to welcome (though not uncritically) many aspects of the rising charismatic movement and to see its
fundamental compatibility with historic evangelicalism, including the reformed tradition in which he stood. (emphasis mine)
Part of the Introduction, by Christopher Catherwood, p13:
The sermons, as Peter Lewis’s Foreword shows, demonstrate my grandfather’s ability to achieve a biblical balance. He believed passionately in the baptism with the Holy Spirit as a distinct, post-conversion experience. But he equally realized that it was a filling with power that made those who had received it into better witnesses for Christ. His indeed was a Christ-centered message, emphasizing that a deeper knowledge of and relationship with Jesus Christ was at the heart of the baptism of the Spirit.
Similarly, as will be made plain from [the] sermons on the gifts of the Spirit, while he believed that
all the gifts existed today, he refused to hold, on the basis of Scripture, that any one gift was necessary as proof of baptism with the Spirit. (emphasis mine)
He was quite consistent with his views of the Sovereignty of God when he maintained that we cannot induce baptism with the Spirit—it is something that can be given by God alone. He was thus
both reformed and charismatic, in the biblical senses of the terms. (emphasis mine)
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