Creation Delivered

Nov 11, 2025

Explore humanity's ultimate goal through Dr. Lloyd-Jones’ insights on suffering and redemption. He contrasts the biblical narrative with the flawed optimism of evolutionary progress. Discover why the fall of Adam is crucial for understanding salvation, and how creation itself groans in anticipation of future glory. Uncover the significance of the second coming and how believers' redemption ties to the restoration of all creation. Gain hope in the promise that God’s character ensures a glorious transformation awaits.

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Creation's State Comes From The Fall

Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones argues the world's brokenness is best explained by the Fall, not incomplete evolution.
He presents creation's present vanity as punishment tied to human sin, not progress.

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Genesis' Historicity Matters For Salvation

Accepting biblical salvation requires taking Genesis' early chapters as historical.
Lloyd-Jones warns Christians cannot safely discard the factual element of Adam and the Fall.

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No Hope In Evolutionary Progress

There is no natural-progress hope for creation in evolution according to the sermon.
The Bible expects crisis and divine intervention, not gradual human perfection.

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How Should Christians View Suffering?

01:13 • 48sec

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Why the Second Coming Matters

02:01 • 2min

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Why Evolution Fails to Explain Creation's Curse

03:55 • 3min

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Why Genesis Is Essential for Christian Doctrine

06:35 • 2min

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Why There Is No Hope in Evolutionary Progress

08:27 • 2min

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Why God's Character Guarantees Restoration

10:06 • 2min

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How Does Creation Share in Redemption?

12:07 • 4min

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What Does Creation's Groaning Mean?

15:51 • 5min

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Why Resurrections Analogy Misleads

21:17 • 2min

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How Our Redemption Ensures Creation's Deliverance

23:44 • 2min

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What Will the Coming Glory Look Like?

25:25 • 1min

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What Glimpses Reveal Christ's Future Glory

26:45 • 6min

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How All Peoples Will See the Lord

33:11 • 6min

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How Believers Will Share in Christ's Glory

39:03 • 4min

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What Will We Be Like in Glory?

43:13 • 37sec

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How Should Christians Live in Light of This Hope?

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Romans 8:18-23 — Questions of humanity’s ultimate goal and how they will arrive at that goal are fundamental to every belief system or worldview. Perhaps no worldview stands in contrast to Christianity like the evolutionary worldview. It not only must reject the historical Adam and therefore the historical fall, but the evolutionary worldview understands the human race to be progressing. It has an inherent optimistic view of human nature – humanity is getting better. They are progressing and in the end all will be okay. As Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones comments on Romans 8:18–23 in this sermon titled “Creation Delivered,” this view of humanity could not be more opposed to the biblical view. Rather than progressing, humanity has plunged, not only itself, but all of creation into a cursed state. The creation, says the apostle Paul, waits for the final redemption of the children of God. Humanity and the rest of creation have no hope apart from God’s redemption in Christ. While fallen humanity places its optimism in itself, the Christian places their optimism in the second coming, when the glory of Christ and the redemption of God’s people is final. Listen as Dr. Lloyd-Jones reminds of the culture’s misplaced hope in Adam’s fallen race in contrast to the Christian’s final hope in Christ.

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