Wake Up

The Drowsy Christian

What makes us fall asleep?

Being overfed - We experienced this on Thursday

Isolation - Lack of engagement in your surroundings

Inactivity - A lack of awareness of danger

What happens to the drowsy christian?

Letting down the guard - giving in to temptation - making a wreck of your life

A lack of witness, silent for so long you’ve lost your voice

Caught unaware and unprepared

The Day is at Hand

A vision of the coming day: Salvation is Nearer Now

The Day of Salvation -

Paul can’t mean that we’re not saved. Salvation is nearer than when we first believed, as if we’ve believed, and are waiting to be saved.

Past, present, and future salvation

We are saved by grace through faith: Justification - God’s act of declaring us righteous in Christ - we received it - it was proclaimed over us, we experience it

We are being saved: Sanctification - God’s work in your life - to make you more like Christ

Paul Washer - God’s purpose in your life is not prosperity, it is not your health, it is not wealth and more than anything it is not to have your best life now. God’s purpose for you in His Son is to make you Holy and according to the image of Christ.

We will be saved - this is what Paul has in mind

A vision of God’s coming glory

A coming Day

Judgment upon those who are outside of Christ

Salvation for those who are in Christ

What Day Is It?

The night has passed, the day is at hand

What is the night?

The Day is at Hand - the dawn is on the horizon

The immediacy of the day of the Lord - Either his return, or our going to him

This is Paul’s wake up call Wake Up

Put On the Armor of Light

Put off the works of darkness, put on the armor of light

Works of darkness - revelry and drunkenness, immorality and sensuality, quarreling and jealousy (basically - the way the world behaves) - Indulging in the flesh

Those things that are scandalous, self-seeking, indulgent, and otherwise putting up obstacles before your witness to life in Christ

Armor of light: Sober minded, self-controlled, gracious living -

A call to put on Christ himself

Walk Properly in the Daytime

Our relationships with the world around us should be lived in the light of Christ’s immanent return

We aren’t called to seek our own comfort and ease - to become gluttons of goodness, but to take the good that we’ve been given and give to the hungry, the lost

We aren’t called to isolation - but to come together to provoke one another to good works - Hebrews 10:24-25

We aren’t called to inactivity - but to engage in spiritual warfare, armored in Christ, armed with the sword of the spirit which is the word of God.

Matthew 24:45