I've transcribed the conclusion from the MLJ sermon I listened to today. Formatting is mine, according to his delivery. He tends to rattle off Scripture and hymn references without citation, so I've done my best to pepper in links.

I especially love the second and third paragraphs.

The Christian is one who centers his every hope on the Lord Jesus Christ. When he thinks about his past and looks back at it, he is given peace. Not simply because he believes that God is a God of love who is ready to forgive, no! He is given peace about his past because he knows that his past sins were laid upon the Lord Jesus Christ on the cross on Calvary's hill. It is that Christ has borne them and carried them away, that gives him confidence and hope and trust as he reviews his past: nothing less. If it isn't Christ only, you've no hope and you're no Christian.

As regards the present, he is aware of his weakness. He is aware of his unworthiness. He is aware of the terrible power of sin and temptation. What is the basis of his hope and confidence and trust? It is still the same: it is the Lord Jesus Christ. "I need Thee every hour, stay Thou nearby." "With Thee at hand to bless, I fear no foe." "Temptations lose their power when Thou art nigh." His confidence in the present, as he is living from moment to moment, is still the same: the Lord Jesus Christ.

And as he looks at the future, it is still the same. He doesn't know what's going to happen. He's in the same world as everybody else. Wars may come, pestilences may come. The Devil will certainly be there! Temptation and sin won't change! The world won't change! Nothing will change! And he's still weak. How can he face it and meet it? He knows that the one who is with him will never leave him nor forsake him.

And then, beyond it all, death. It's got to come; it's got to be faced. But still, he is perfectly happy. He is full of hope and of confidence and of assurance. The one who has been with him in life will be with him in death. "I will never leave thee nor forsake thee." "I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord." "Who first hoped in Christ."

Is he the basis of all your hope and confidence and faith? If he isn't, well, my dear friend: you've no right to call yourself a Christian. But if you can say this: "My hope is built on nothing less, than Jesus' blood and righteousness. I dare not trust my sweetest frame, but wholly lean on Jesus' name. On Christ the Solid Rock I stand. All other ground is sinking sand." If you can say that, then you are a Christian, indeed; and may God bless you. Amen.

Martyn Lloyd-Jones, "Heard. Believed. Trusted." on Ephesians 1:11-14.