09- Lloyd-Jones Preaching Regeneration

We have seen how Keller preaches regeneration. Let‟s
remind ourselves of how D.Martyn Lloyd-Jones preached it.1
Lloyd-Jones was under no illusions. He knew that what he
was about to preach would not be liked by unbelievers, and
he said so. He did not try to make it palatable:
There is nothing... I sometimes think, that so demonstrates
the depth of sin in the human heart as this objection to the
doctrine of the rebirth or being born again. Read the New
Testament Scriptures, and you will find that men objected
to it in those days. When our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ
spoke about it, he was always persecuted. People disliked
him for mentioning it... They disliked it then, and it has
always been the same ever since... The natural man, the
unregenerate human heart, objected to this great and
wondrous biblical doctrine of rebirth and regeneration. And
it is equally true today... If a preacher stands before the
natural man and says: „You must be born again – you must
have a new life from God‟, they ask: „What is this strange
doctrine?‟