Revitalizing Preaching: The Legacy of Dr. Lee Jones
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Dr. Lee Jones was pre-eminently a preacher. It was his preaching that made him such a power in the Christian Medical Fellowship and it was his preaching that made him such an influence among students. His preaching was responsible and is responsible for the literature for the books that have now reached a million sales throughout the world. [00:01:39]
The purpose of the seminary is to produce preachers. It has no other function whatsoever and its origin lies in what we saw and heard in Dr. Lee Jones over these many years. We could see something of the decline of preaching in our land and the devaluing of it that was going on throughout the world. [00:02:56]
The seminary would not be concerned with turning out teachers or providing religious education, but rather the only people to be accepted were those who could give us some credible evidence, confirmed by their churches if at all possible, of having been called to preach the gospel. [00:06:20]
Dr. Lee Jones believed in the foolishness of preaching. He believed that statement that we have in the First Epistle of the Corinthians, the first chapter, that it pleased God through the foolishness of preaching to save them that believed. And that needed to be emphasized; it needs to be emphasized in our day and time. [00:08:37]
His vital qualifications were the qualifications of a preacher; they were spiritual qualifications. I want to note those briefly because I do not see how we can rightly give thanks to God for the doctor and for his ministry if we do not acknowledge and recognize those spiritual qualifications that he had. [00:10:56]
He was called of God. He left the medical school to enter the pulpit as a result of a call from heaven. That's the only explanation. I remember the headlines of the newspapers in 1927 announcing that a man from Harley Street was coming down to a small little Church in an industrialized community in Wales to take up the ministry of the gospel. [00:11:33]
His concern for people was a very significant factor in that call itself. He told me more than once that he was helping men and women with their physical diseases and yet it was staring him in his face that they had souls that were going to a lost eternity. [00:14:31]
His view of the gospel involved the Holy Trinity. I always noted the way that he referred to the Holy Trinity, the Blessed Holy Trinity. Inevitably, the Blessed Holy Trinity. And again and again, I heard him preaching here Sunday morning, Sunday evenings, Friday evenings. It was God's plan, it was the work of the Lord Jesus Christ. [00:17:21]
He had that high view of the gospel of Jesus Christ. I came to the Apostle Paul of old who thought of it as the power of God unto salvation to every one that believed. Whether he was preaching to Saints on a Sunday morning, preaching to sinners on a Sunday night, expounding the Epistle to the Romans on Friday evenings. [00:18:14]
Whenever you enter the pulpit, pitch your tent on Calvary's Hill, he said, with a view of that cross. Pitch your tent on Calvary's Hill within view of the cross. Again and again, I thought of that statement down through the years here in Westminster Chapel. [00:19:23]
He had no hobbyhorses, no pretensions, no compromise. This high view of the gospel, it superintended and controlled him at all times whenever he entered the pulpit. [00:20:55]
Dr. Lee Jones was God's man for evil days. When I came out into the ministry in 1946 in Wales, I don't know, but I somehow feel that you could have counted out-and-out evangelical preachers of the gospel on two hands. The situation in Wales today is vastly different, and it is vastly different in Britain too. [00:21:10]
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The purpose of the seminary is to produce preachers. It has no other function whatsoever and its origin lies in what we saw and heard in Dr. Lee Jones over these many years. We could see something of the decline of preaching in our land and the devaluing of it that was going on throughout the world. [00:02:56]
The seminary would not be concerned with turning out teachers or providing religious education, but rather the only people to be accepted were those who could give us some credible evidence, confirmed by their churches if at all possible, of having been called to preach the gospel. [00:06:20]
Dr. Lee Jones believed in the foolishness of preaching. He believed that statement that we have in the First Epistle of the Corinthians, the first chapter, that it pleased God through the foolishness of preaching to save them that believed. And that needed to be emphasized; it needs to be emphasized in our day and time. [00:08:37]
His vital qualifications were the qualifications of a preacher; they were spiritual qualifications. I want to note those briefly because I do not see how we can rightly give thanks to God for the doctor and for his ministry if we do not acknowledge and recognize those spiritual qualifications that he had. [00:10:56]
He was called of God. He left the medical school to enter the pulpit as a result of a call from heaven. That's the only explanation. I remember the headlines of the newspapers in 1927 announcing that a man from Harley Street was coming down to a small little Church in an industrialized community in Wales to take up the ministry of the gospel. [00:11:33]
His concern for people was a very significant factor in that call itself. He told me more than once that he was helping men and women with their physical diseases and yet it was staring him in his face that they had souls that were going to a lost eternity. [00:14:31]
His view of the gospel involved the Holy Trinity. I always noted the way that he referred to the Holy Trinity, the Blessed Holy Trinity. Inevitably, the Blessed Holy Trinity. And again and again, I heard him preaching here Sunday morning, Sunday evenings, Friday evenings. It was God's plan, it was the work of the Lord Jesus Christ. [00:17:21]
He had that high view of the gospel of Jesus Christ. I came to the Apostle Paul of old who thought of it as the power of God unto salvation to every one that believed. Whether he was preaching to Saints on a Sunday morning, preaching to sinners on a Sunday night, expounding the Epistle to the Romans on Friday evenings. [00:18:14]
Whenever you enter the pulpit, pitch your tent on Calvary's Hill, he said, with a view of that cross. Pitch your tent on Calvary's Hill within view of the cross. Again and again, I thought of that statement down through the years here in Westminster Chapel. [00:19:23]
He had no hobbyhorses, no pretensions, no compromise. This high view of the gospel, it superintended and controlled him at all times whenever he entered the pulpit. [00:20:55]
Dr. Lee Jones was God's man for evil days. When I came out into the ministry in 1946 in Wales, I don't know, but I somehow feel that you could have counted out-and-out evangelical preachers of the gospel on two hands. The situation in Wales today is vastly different, and it is vastly different in Britain too. [00:21:10]
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