Weekly Dose Of Lloyd-Jones

We must always guard against the terrible danger of believing the doctrines concerning God and the Lord Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit without having a simple faith in the Three blessed Persons. The great doctrines are in Scripture, and it is essential that we should know them. I cannot put too much emphasis upon the value of such knowledge. But the devil comes and tries to press us to the point at which we are only interested in the doctrines and have lost the Persons, and we are left with nothing but a body of theoretical truth. In that condition we virtually turn Christian doctrine into a body of philosophy, and our relationship to divine Persons may be entirely dormant. This is, of course, another manifestation of that lack of balance which we were considering earlier, the danger of becoming increasingly intellectual and theoretical, the danger of becoming entirely objective, so that we approach all this great and glorious truth in the same way as we would approach any other truth or teaching.*

"...But I am not ashamed, for I know whom I have believed, and I am convinced that he is able to guard until that Day what has been entrusted to me" (2 Ti 1:12).

Soli Deo Gloria!

For His Glory,
Fernando

*Lloyd-Jones, D. M. (1976). The Christian Warfare : An Exposition of Ephesians 6:10 to 13 (178). Edinburgh; Carlisle, Pa.: Banner of Truth Trust.