(KJV) 9  And there sat in a window a certain young man named Eutychus, being fallen into a deep sleep: and as Paul was long preaching, he sunk down with sleep, and fell down from the third loft, and was taken up dead. 10  And Paul went down, and fell on him, and embracing him said, Trouble not yourselves; for his life is in him. 11  When he therefore was come up again, and had broken bread, and eaten, and talked a long while, even till break of day, so he departed. 12  And they brought the young man alive, and were not a little comforted.

Acts 20:9–12 KJV 1900

And there sat in a window a certain young man named Eutychus, being fallen into a deep sleep: and as Paul was long preaching, he sunk down with sleep, and fell down from the third loft, and was taken up dead. And Paul went down, and fell on him, and embracing him said, Trouble not yourselves; for his life is in him. When he therefore was come up again, and had broken bread, and eaten, and talked a long while, even till break of day, so he departed. And they brought the young man alive, and were not a little comforted.

FALLING ASLEEP AT THE WRONG SPOT

Illustration:

Just after John Bunyan's Pilgrim had lost his burden at the foot of the cross, a little farther on, at a bottom and very near the cross, he saw three men fast asleep with fetters on their heels. The name of one was Simple, another Sloth, the third Presumption. When he awoke them, "Simple said, I see no danger; Sloth said, Yet a little more sleep; and Presumption said, Every tub must stand up on its own bottom."

Just after John Bunyan's Pilgrim had lost his burden at the foot of the cross, a little farther on, at a bottom and very near the cross, he saw three men fast asleep with fetters on their heels. The name of one was Simple, another Sloth, the third Presumption. When he awoke them, "Simple said, I see no danger; Sloth said, Yet a little more sleep; and Presumption said, Every tub must stand up on its own bottom."

SLEEPING AT THE WRONG SP

FALLING ASLEEP AT THE WRONG SPOT

A. Many of saints have falling asleep in a place that cost them their walk with God.

Man of God

1 Kings 13:8–9 KJV 1900

And the man of God said unto the king, If thou wilt give me half thine house, I will not go in with thee, neither will I eat bread nor drink water in this place: For so was it charged me by the word of the Lord, saying, Eat no bread, nor drink water, nor turn again by the same way that thou camest.

a. Eat no bread

1 kfings 13:8-9

b. Drink no water

c. Do go out the same way you came in.

1 Kings 13:14 KJV 1900

And went after the man of God, and found him sitting under an oak: and he said unto him, Art thou the man of God that camest from Judah? And he said, I am.

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1 Kings 13:9–12 KJV 1900

For so was it charged me by the word of the Lord, saying, Eat no bread, nor drink water, nor turn again by the same way that thou camest. So he went another way, and returned not by the way that he came to Beth-el. Now there dwelt an old prophet in Beth-el; and his sons came and told him all the works that the man of God had done that day in Beth-el: the words which he had spoken unto the king, them they told also to their father. And their father said unto them, What way went he? For his sons had seen what way the man of God went, which came from Judah.

a. The devil will tell any lie to get you back into sin and disobey Gods word.

2. The Disciples

Mark 14:40 KJV 1900

And when he returned, he found them asleep again, (for their eyes were heavy,) neither wist they what to answer him.

Matthew 26:56 KJV 1900

But all this was done, that the scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled. Then all the disciples forsook him, and fled.

a. If you don’t pray you want stay.

b. We are only as strong as your prayer life.

LIVING TO CLOSE TO THE EDGE

Acts 20:9 KJV 1900

And there sat in a window a certain young man named Eutychus, being fallen into a deep sleep: and as Paul was long preaching, he sunk down with sleep, and fell down from the third loft, and was taken up dead.

The third loft.

a. The Loft of pride

The Loft of compromise.

b. The Loft of compromise.

2. The love of God.

Acts 20:11 KJV 1900

When he therefore was come up again, and had broken bread, and eaten, and talked a long while, even till break of day, so he departed.

Acts 20:10 KJV 1900

And Paul went down, and fell on him, and embracing him said, Trouble not yourselves; for his life is in him.

a. Love covers a multitude of sins.

Galatians 6:1 KJV 1900

Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted.

a. And Paul went down, and fell on him, and embracing him said, Trouble not yourselves; for his life is in him.