“We must be concerned about the world and not only about salvation”

Martyn Lloyd-Jones on the headship of Christ over all things, and what this means for us:

Christ is not only head of those who recognize Him as such and submit to Him. He is Lord of all…The world is still God’s world. He is not only interested in the saved but also in the unsaved. He has put bounds to sin and government is one of the ways in which He does it. There is common grace as well as special grace…We must be concerned about the world and not only about salvation…The difference between the Christian and the non-Christian in these things is that the Christian will never pin his faith on them as a means to bring ultimate and complete salvation to the race… (Iaian Murray’s biography, volume 2)