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The purpose of this study is to offer a comprehensive investigation of both Lloyd-Jones’ conviction on Spirit baptism and its close connection with his homiletics. Lloyd-Jones’ doctrine of Spirit baptism stems from the Reformed doctrine related to assurance of salvation and revival, which had been propagated from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries, rather than being indebted to Pentecostal or Charismatic doctrines. At the same time, his doctrine of Spirit baptism is a thoughtful re-appropriation of the older doctrines within the context of his own day, rather than a simple repetition of their original content. His doctrine was shaped, on the one hand, by Puritan spirituality and Welsh revivalism and, on the other, by his personal experience of the Spirit, which served to confirm the doctrinal views that he had gained from these earlier sources. Most of all, his avid reading of the history of revival and his life-long aspiration for revival was the matrix in which his doctrine of Spirit baptism had been formed and developed. The matrix eventually led Lloyd-Jones’ doctrine of Spirit baptism and his understanding of true preaching to be distinguished from the Reformed tradition, influencing him to place more emphasis on the exceptional works of the Spirit, including the immediate work of the Spirit apart from the Word. Lloyd-Jones’ conviction regarding the necessity of Spirit baptism in true preaching still tells us of the urgent need to return to “the ancient supply,” the baptism of the Spirit, aspiring to experience God’s eternal love that it conveys, as the true source of spiritual “fire” and the new covenant power in our preaching ministries.