By Tony Sargent
There are reliable preachers and there are nice preachers and Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones is one of the best of the 20th century. In "The Sacred Anointing", Tony Sargent explores the guy, the tools and the explanations in the back of this grasp preacher. He additionally considers the primary position which divine 'unction' performed in Lloyd-Jones' lifestyles and the prophetic caliber of his ministry.
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In addition to his comment that one cannot preach in ‘cold blood’ is the implication that you cannot preach without a congregation! In these days of media communication, the point is not as absurd as it seems. To speak in front of a camera or microphone without the presence of a congregation is not preaching. The very presence of a body of people in itself is a part of the preaching … It is not a mere gathering of people; Christ is present. This is the great mystery of the Church. 144 The fact that the Bible is used and exposition is attempted does not qualify it to be rated as preaching.
Whatever qualification may need to be placed against some illustrations, Lloyd-Jones’s main arguments are surely substantiated. There were among leading Christians of former generations: Many who had remarkable experiences of the Holy Spirit’s enabling Some who definitely theologised their experience in what might be termed a two-stage fashion. , 100 p. 356. Preaching and Preachers, p. 101. a person may be born again and have not received the Holy Ghost is perfectly certain according to the Scriptures.
120 The many references to Lloyd-Jones in Packer’s books reveal the impact he made on the younger man. He gives a graphic description of his mentor’s pulpit ministry at that time. The sermon (as we say nowadays) blew me away … He worked up to a dramatic growling shout about God’s sovereign grace a few minutes before the end; then from that he worked down to businesslike persuasions calling on needy souls to come to Christ … I went out full of awe and joy, with a more vivid sense of the greatness of God in my heart than I had known before … The thunder and lightning; the gestures—kneading fists representing perplexed philosophers, the vibrating arm with open hand marking God’s descent in grace, the right-angled turns to point to heaven and hell (one side of the church for each, and always the same side): and the electric impact of those trombone-sforzando shouts about God …121 [Page 34] Even if words are inadequate to describe unction—and you can’t get ‘the lightning and the thunder’122 on to the page—we are indebted to Packer for a creditable attempt to supply us with an insight!
