Redeeming the Time

Falling Asleep on God

Subliminal : existing or functioning below the threshold of consciousness. This is done through what we see and hear and we are unaware it is happening we are thinking we are just being entertained.

Black Panther, Avengers, Thor, Dr. Strange, Harry Potter, Star Wars, Disney films are not family friendly like they use to be. TV Shows(Scandal, Empire, How to Commit Murder), our Music even our so called Gospel Music, Books and Magazines, News Papers,

Desensitize: to make insensitive or nonreactive to a sensitizing agent; callous; passive; tolerant (to sin)

Physically sleep; unconscious state, slumber(doze, sleep lightly), repose(rest or lie dead)

Eutychus falling physically asleep while Paul was preaching Acts 20:9-12

Spiritually sleep

Jesus asking the disciples to watch while he prayed before he was betrayed, found them asleep three times . Our Spirit is willing but our flesh is weak

Ephesians 5:14–20 KJV 1900

Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light. See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise, Redeeming the time, because the days are evil. Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is. And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit; Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord; Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ;

Acts 20:9-

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.

Ephesians 5:14-

Redeeming the time (making the right use of every opportunity)

The days are evil

Awake thou that sleepest

Arise from the dead

Know the time

Walk (live) Circumspectly (carefully, aware, sober, skillful) be wise

Walk honestly

Be filled with the Spirit

Understand the Will of the Lord (Please God in our doings)

Know the Time

Time: the measured or period during which an action, process or condition exist or continues

Romans 13:11–14 KJV 1900

And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed. The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light. Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying. But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.

Romans 13

Our Salvation nearer than when we believed

The night is far spent

Cast off the works of darkness

Put on the armor of light

Refrain

From rioting and drunkeness

Chambering(impurity)

Wantonness(thoughtless, unrestrained)

Strife(conflict, quarreling)

Envying

Put on our Lord Jesus Christ (Love, Joy, Peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness and faith, Meekness, Temperance)

Make not provision for the flesh

Closing

Be alert

Be spiritually vigilant

Be prayful

Be a student of the Word of God

Be industrious in the Work of the Lord winning souls through Christ

Be single minded

Be led by the Spirit of God

Each day of our lives brings us one day closer to our complete salvation with Christ

Altar call