attempted this book. Unction is vital in the proclaiming of the message. Unction demonstrates that the ‘smile of God’ is on the preacher. Without it he is ineffective. Lloyd-Jones would be emphasising this even more so today. He would not have shifted from his conviction that man qua man remains the same. Paul’s personal diagnosis of the human condition stands for every man throughout the whole of time. ‘For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do … O wretched man