WAKE UP CHURCH
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2 For you yourselves know full well that the day of the Lord will come just like a thief in the night.
3 While they are saying, “Peace and safety!” then destruction will come upon them suddenly like labor pains upon a woman with child, and they will not escape.
4 But you, brethren, are not in darkness, that the day would overtake you like a thief;
5 for you are all sons of light and sons of day. We are not of night nor of darkness;
6 so then let us not sleep as others do, but let us be alert and sober.
7 For those who sleep do their sleeping at night, and those who get drunk get drunk at night.
8 But since we are of the day, let us be sober, having put on the breastplate of faith and love, and as a helmet, the hope of salvation.
9 For God has not destined us for wrath, but for obtaining salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,
10 who died for us, so that whether we are awake or asleep, we will live together with Him.
11 Therefore encourage one another and build up one another, just as you also are doing.
The Day of the Lord, i would like to say that the day of the Lord refer to the day of judgement and wrath.
notice verse 9
9 For God has not destined us for wrath, but for obtaining salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,
verse 11
11 Therefore encourage one another and build up one another, just as you also are doing.
Notice in our text this day of wrath ill come as a thief in the night.
Paul discribes the times as “destruction will come upon them suddenly like labor pains upon a woman with child, and they will not escape.
So what does God do for the saints?
21 “For then there will be a great tribulation, such as has not occurred since the beginning of the world until now, nor ever will.
22 “Unless those days had been cut short, no life would have been saved; but for the sake of the elect those days will be cut short.
He recuse and saves us from the wrath to come
Why? because we are not designed for the wrath to come…
This does not mean that the church will not expereince hardship and trail..
this does not mean the church will not go through tribulation.
it does mean that mean God judges and pour out his wrath , he will rescue and save his church
10 and to wait for His Son from heaven, whom He raised from the dead, that is Jesus, who rescues us from the wrath to come.
Which is a good thing because Nahum says,
6 Who can stand before His indignation? Who can endure the burning of His anger? His wrath is poured out like fire And the rocks are broken up by Him.
there is to come a real day in which God will judge sin completely, once and for all.
he will silence the mouth of all those who oppose Him.
But where will you be?
Where will the church be?
Will we be for Him or again Him?
Will we be ignorant or silent?
will we be awake?
2 For you yourselves know full well that the day of the Lord will come just like a thief in the night.
“The night is wherever there is quiet unconcern”
Matthew Henry’s Commentary on the Whole Bible: Complete and Unabridged in One Volume 1 Thessalonians 5:1–5
The apostle tells the Thessalonians it was needless or useless to enquire about the particular time of Christ’s coming
Jesus says, in
44 “For this reason you also must be ready; for the Son of Man is coming at an hour when you do not think He will.
YOU MUST BE READY!
35 “Therefore, be on the alert—for you do not know when the master of the house is coming, whether in the evening, at midnight, or when the rooster crows, or in the morning—
36 in case he should come suddenly and find you asleep.
37 “What I say to you I say to all, ‘Be on the alert!’ ”
Be on alert less he find you asleep
Look at your neighbor and say, WAKE UP!
I had 2 funeral this week and as i watch the slide shows of one lady in particular
she had take her family all over this country and she had seen so many beautify things..
i thought whats the piont if ive been to the ocean, if im just going to die
whats the point of seeing the grand canyon, which is amazing by the way. if im just going to die..
There is something bigger and more beautiful than the moutains of alaska, which are beautifu by the way, right Kate...
there is something greater and more beautiful than Niagra Falls…
Many time we are chasing the things and the beauty of this created work, rather than chaising after the creature.
WAKE UP CHURCH!!!
HE IS COMING…
36 “But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father alone.
But i know, HE COMING
Like a thief in the night...
4 But you, brethren, are not in darkness, that the day would overtake you like a thief;
If you live in darkness you will be overtaken by the thief..
if you live in you sin and none repentance
if you justify your wrong behavior and continue in it, you will be overtaken...
5 for you are all sons of light and sons of day. We are not of night nor of darkness;
Paul says in Ephesians
8 for you were formerly darkness, but now you are Light in the Lord; walk as children of Light
God’s mercy has allowed us to live in our halfhearted, doublemindedness....
God i have a word for you CHURCH....
TICK TOCK TICK TOCK.. That time is ending soooonnnnn
WAKE UPPPPPP!
6 so then let us not sleep as others do, but let us be alert and sober.
who do you know the night referrs to man’s sin and bad behavior.
7 For those who sleep do their sleeping at night, and those who get drunk get drunk at night.
8 But since we are of the day, let us be sober, having put on the breastplate of faith and love, and as a helmet, the hope of salvation.
Faith, love, and Hope
13 But now faith, hope, love, abide these three; but the greatest of these is love.
ill close with the ending of our text
9 For God has not destined us for wrath, but for obtaining salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,
10 who died for us, so that whether we are awake or asleep, we will live together with Him.
11 Therefore encourage one another and build up one another, just as you also are doing.