1999 is the centenary of the birth of Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones. It is our intention to print something each month from his published work in chronological order.
This is a sermon preached at Sandfields in Aberavon on September 20 1931. It is difficult to make an extract of what is a balanced whole, but this analysis of man's problem is taken from the sermon. The text is: 'And now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees' (Luke 3.9).
It is perhaps common ground as between the moderns and the gospel that things are not right with man as he is at present. It is granted that the world is full of things which are wrong and sinful, but the cleavage becomes evident at once when we compare the ways in which the moderns and the gospel face that situation.
