His path is as "the shining light that shineth more and more unto the perfect day."II. Then began feelings to which you were before strangers: then arose penitence, impelling you to mourn over your vileness: love, binding you in firm attachment to Him who died for you: hope, irradiating the otherwise darkened future: holiness, beginning the grand process by which it world refine every faculty by assimilating them to the Divine likeness. It is something that you know because God said it. Awake! -------------------- 5. Pauline Epistles Nearer as to the preparation for it. " Never did any age since the establishment of Christianity possess such claims upon the earnest, sober attention of the Church as the present. Paul writing to the church in Thessolonica said, 3. Some Christians are always looking on the dark side of things. THE EFFECTS WHICH IT IS CALCULATED TO PROMOTE. 2. Assumes that faith has an established connection with salvation. 12). The character of the times. I hate that clock. The best proof that a man is not elect, is his making election his pillow, and going to sleep upon his own predestination. The lost years of your existence, the interests of truth, the value of souls calls on you to awake. The night is nearly over; the day is almost here. 3. So the rate at which the train of secular pursuits hurries Christians along and lulls them into a state of obliviousness of spiritual things. Because —. The more you commune with the time when you believed, the more also you will commune with the time when you shall be saved. His path is as "the shining light that shineth more and more unto the perfect day. So let us put aside the deeds of darkness and put on the armor of light. Search a pre-defined list Historical Books It is so with eternal life. The man that lives as Christ would live, is thereby made impervious to the shafts of the enemy. There ought to be a great contrast between believers in Jesus Christ and those who are in this evil world. 3. And the result is that the soul passes by almost imperceptible degrees into a state of moral slumber. I have known a man profess to be converted, but he has merely put religion over his old character. 4. What shadows disappointment causes to pass over our lives! Actually nigh. Do not let your religion consist in receiving all and doing nothing. The bid was too low. In the privileges to which it introduced you — pardon and reconciliation with God; righteousness and full acceptance in the Beloved; liberty from the tyranny of sin and of Satan, adoption into the Divine family, etc. The Church is only in the dawn of the day of redemption. So let us put aside the deeds of darkness and put on the armor of light. 1. This very passage, the closing part of this thirteenth chapter, was the means of converting St. Augustine. Great promises have already been realised; great victories won; many a rough place passed over and many a weary footstep measured off; many a Sabbath day's journey made: and already the "delectable hills" are in sight; angels are bending over the battlements of heaven to welcome the approaching pilgrim; and soon the conflict will cease, and glory immortal — so long contemplated by faith and longed for — will be a blessed realisation. (2)The night of mystery — seeing things as through a glass darkly — will soon see as we are seen, and know as we are known. In possession of immortality. THE MORNING GOSPEL. Embed coganhousecommunitychurch 8 views 2020-11-09T10:50:03 Now is the Time by Pastor Cleveland Way, November 8, 2020. So soon to be done with earth and sin and evil and conflict! But then we started on our voyage to heaven. Historical Books Jesus is coming soon to deliver us from this present evil world. In the agency by which it was accomplished. 2. Let us, then, be comforted, and pass on. Here the appeal may be made to your gratitude. 4. 2. 2. It cannot destroy sin, or take away its guilt. The salvation will be a salvation from death to life; from sin to holiness; from shame to glory, Divine and everlasting.3. Behind us, too, how many opportunities of service have we left? The coverlet of night is not our covering by day. "The day is at hand." 11). It is not over yet; but they must be fewer than they were. 4. Those who are entitled to anticipate salvation must be holy. 1. "Put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ" (ver. Then, next to Jesus, we shall be with all the bright spirits who have gone before us. There was genetic engineering that was producing a race of gigantic men. In going to Australia it is the custom to toast "Friends behind," till they get half way; and then it changes, "Friends ahead." You who have been converted, say these ten years, what have you done for Christ? And while there is not now "the same excess of riot," still there is considerable proneness to conform to the customs of irreligious people in pleasure. The uncertainty and speedy termination of life. Don M. Aycock. II. Let us attend to the view here given of THE PRIVILEGE OF GOOD MEN — "Now is their salvation nearer than when they believed.". (3)The night of sin and suffering. In point of clearness of realisation. Romans 13:11-14: Our Responsibilities Under Grace - Part 12 ... Now, "hope" in Scripture is not something that is uncertain. (3) Its abounding wickedness. These relationships are at the center of everything that Paul puts into place in his letter to the Romans, but they are articulated most concretely in chapters 12-15. The portals of the future are coming fast into sight, and soon they will open for you to pass through. When the Duke of Wellington asked one of our soldiers how he would like to be dressed if he had to fight the battle of Waterloo again, he answered that he should like to be in his shirt sleeves. The Christian is to cast off everything that will not bear the light, to have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness. The Gospels IV. Major Prophets 2. "There is no peace, saith my God, to the wicked.". It is a great point gained to have made a definite beginning in a good work. So near to heaven! Your conversion is far back in the distance. III. Let saints be exhorted to use every means of excitement to this holy activity. ", 1. The statement lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God. When we look over the first chapters of Chronicles, to read which is like entering a great world-cemetery, how we are struck with the shortness of life at the best! Here salvation is in process, there in perfection. 4. How valuable and dignified human life, which in general appears so base and miserable!" 1. (Delivered Sunday, October 23, 2005 at Bethany Bible Church. Influence we exert. Revolving suns bring it continually nearer. If he who has been long labouring is thus admonished, what must be the state of those who have not yet taken the first steps in Christianity? 2. There is in Him a complete and suitable apparel for thy soul, by which every blemish and defilement shall be put out of sight. 3. The cultivation of Christian activity. Advent season sermon to prepare us for the coming of Christ. 1. 1. How utterly insensible they are to the sins and sorrows of those around them. SOMETIMES DREAM, and then we live amidst fancy forms. It intimates that the consideration of our present circumstances will show us the necessity of exciting ourselves to this vigilance and activity. In the influences by which it was attended. II. Well, without blaming any for the weakness of the flesh, I take this sleepy habit to be a fit illustration of the state of some Christians. 4. "Knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep.". Romans 13:11-14 We are getting far into the gospel dispensation. dark hours of pain and sorrow will soon be over. Their strong impressions have subsided, their souls have left their first love; they did run well, but they have been hindered. Sleep indicates inactivity to make our election sure. Like a person sleeping in a house on fire, unless the deadly charm is broken, we must be consumed. In applying it to the latter, I just tell him that he has less time in which to escape, and therefore less likelihood of obtaining deliverance. The whole Judean countryside and all the people of Jerusalem went out to him. Oh, what a heaven to be with Him! -------------------- And this salvation is nearer the Christian's grasp to-day than when he first believed. "The day is at hand." A. I believe that God wants us to know the times in which we live. NET RSV ASV YLT DBY WEB HNV. The work we have to do is most urgent. The church has been asleep while the world is going to hell around it. There is not a hill or valley, a wind or storm, a bird or beast, a leaf or flower, but has something to say to us of God. Now is our salvation nearer than when we believed. Now, in passing into the future we pass into the day. Time reached its majority when the "fulness of time" came. And it is possible to drug the soul to seeming sleep by deliberate perseverance in any known sin. GenesisExodusLeviticusNumbersDeuteronomyJoshuaJudgesRuth1 Samuel2 Samuel1 Kings2 Kings1 Chronicles2 ChroniclesEzraNehemiahEstherJobPsalmsProverbsEcclesiastesSong of SongsIsaiahJeremiahLamentationsEzekielDanielHoseaJoelAmosObadiahJonahMicahNahumHabakkukZephaniahHaggaiZechariahMalachiMatthewMarkLukeJohnActsRomans1 Corinthians2 CorinthiansGalatiansEphesiansPhilippiansColossians1 Thessalonians2 Thessalonians1 Timothy2 TimothyTitusPhilemonHebrewsJames1 Peter2 Peter1 John2 John3 JohnJudeRevelation, Select a Beginning Point 3. 1. AN INTERESTING PERIOD IN THE PAST — "when we believed." "All things continue as they were" is the cry of unbelief. WHAT FOLLOWS?1. Cast off your night clothes. What able to be done during its progress. They have fits and starts of wakefulness, and then off to sleep again. You have had a great deal of fair weather, too, since you left port. II. The degree of our happiness in the next life will be mainly determined by our attainments in holiness in this. Minor Prophets Pauline Epistles 1. Others fall into a kind of somnambulistic state. (2) The clouds of mystery will soon be lifted. (3) Have done with dreaming. The battlefield of good and evil is here. It would help your sermon if you wore some kind of “garment” that signified your ordination or calling. 1. DOING NOTHING. It is all death, and not worth reckoning. Sermons For The Church. But the language is only general to find out the individual. 13 Let us behave decently, as in the daytime, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual … B. AN URGENT DUTY. Sermon Outline for Romans 13:11-14 The Christian and the Return of Christ The Time of Christ’s Return It is near The first Christians believed it was KJV NKJV NLT NIV ESV CSB NASB. "To awake from carelessness and indifference" - B. W. Johnson b. II. "It is high time that you should awake out of sleep, for now is your damnation nearer than when you first heard the gospel and rejected it." Parents, avail yourselves of your opportunities. Spiritual slumber is not necessarily the folding up of every power and faculty, but the not developing them in the necessary degree. In the days of the Old Testament this was known as the worship of Molech, which in the eyes of God was idolatry. Individual instructors or editors may still require the use of URLs. Let us then lay aside the works of darkness and put on the armor of light; let us live honorably as in the day, not in reveling and drunkenness, not in debauchery and licentiousness, not in … It is its duty pre-eminently to seek to leaven this civilisation. 2. Then the man begins that course which terminates in everlasting life. The Christian sees "through a glass darkly" now. Sincere desires to live more fully unto the Lord. 3. 4. b. David Guzik :: Génesis 14 – Abram Rescata a Lot y Conoce a Melquisedec, G1 - alpha - Strong's Greek Lexicon (KJV), David Guzik :: Hechos 9 – La Conversión de Saulo de Tarso, David Guzik :: 1 Corintios 7 – Principios Sobre el Matrimonio y la Soltería, A Summary of Each Bible Book - Study Resources, Chuck Smith :: Sermon Notes for Matthew 7:6, David Guzik :: Génesis 3 – La tentación y caída del hombre, Jehovah's Witnesses, Jesus and the Holy Trinity (Walter Martin), Genesis 6-7 (1979-82 Audio) (Chuck Smith), A Quiet Heart Means Confidence in God (Elisabeth Elliot), Genesis 1:1-8 (1979-82 Audio) (Chuck Smith), Genesis 4-5 (1979-82 Audio) (Chuck Smith). For salvation is nearer to us now than when we became believers; the night is far gone, the day is near. The New Testament Yet the. "Cast off the works of darkness." Knowing the time - Taking a proper "estimate" of the time. 2. Raiment for all emergencies. "Millions of money for an inch of time," cried Queen Elizabeth on her death-bed. There is a spot in the Atlantic called the Saragossa Sea, which is subject to long calms, and is covered with a thick, entangling seaweed; and nothing of all he has to encounter on the wide ocean fills the experienced mariner with more genuine dread than to be caught in the meshes of this region of dead calm and entangling weeds. (3)The night of sin and suffering. Romans 13:11-14: Our Responsibilities Under Grace - Part 12 ... Now, "hope" in Scripture is not something that is uncertain. Ought we not to be more awake? Sermon – 31 Jan 2016 – Romans 13:11-14 Page 1 Romans 13:11-14 Romans 13:11-14, “And do this, understanding the present time, the hour has come for you to wake up from your slumber, because our salvation is nearer now than when we first believed. GenesisExodusLeviticusNumbersDeuteronomyJoshuaJudgesRuth1 Samuel2 Samuel1 Kings2 Kings1 Chronicles2 ChroniclesEzraNehemiahEstherJobPsalmsProverbsEcclesiastesSong of SongsIsaiahJeremiahLamentationsEzekielDanielHoseaJoelAmosObadiahJonahMicahNahumHabakkukZephaniahHaggaiZechariahMalachiMatthewMarkLukeJohnActsRomans1 Corinthians2 CorinthiansGalatiansEphesiansPhilippiansColossians1 Thessalonians2 Thessalonians1 Timothy2 TimothyTitusPhilemonHebrewsJames1 Peter2 Peter1 John2 John3 JohnJudeRevelation, Select a Beginning Point 2. Let us now consider how you should be excited to this vigilance and activity by THE NEARNESS OF YOUR SALVATION. A call to Christ-likeness. Therefore, be ready for the time of revelation. Great promises have already been realised; great victories won; many a rough place passed over and many a weary footstep measured off; many a Sabbath day's journey made: and already the "delectable hills" are in sight; angels are bending over the battlements of heaven to welcome the approaching pilgrim; and soon the conflict will cease, and glory immortal — so long contemplated by faith and longed for — will be a blessed realisation. in the resource materials are not necessarily affirmed, in total, by this ministry. Never did they so furiously rage as they did around Him who ended their reign. And over and above the slumber of certain faculties, those which are awake are but half awake. II. There doesn't seem to be an urgency about the things of the Lord. We have time, i.e., season; a particular opportunity for preparation. We slept through the opening of the doors of the abortion clinics. The Gospels II. The Earthly and the Heavenly State of the Good, The Nearness of Salvation a Motive to Vigilance, The earthly and the heavenly state of the good, The nearness of salvation a motive to vigilance. Therefore, keep wide awake, and looking out for it. "(Homiletic Monthly. We are too indifferent to the value of time. B. Be wise, then, and dress according to what you will meet with during the day. RVR60 VUL WLC LXX mGNT TR . 2. "(Homiletic Monthly. The salvation will be a salvation from death to life; from sin to holiness; from shame to glory, Divine and everlasting.3. 4. 1. How many fancy that it must be well with them, because once they were "converted." It is plain that this exhortation is addressed to Christians, for the writer adds, "for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed." Romans 13:11-14 Theme: The Christian tradition invites us to celebrate 3 advents the 4 weeks of advent. The Old Testament John 3:16, Jesus faith love), The Whole Bible "The day is at hand." 11 And do this, understanding the present time: The hour has already come for you to wake up from your slumber, because our salvation is nearer now than when we first believed. It is daylight. So near to heaven! BREVITY., The years of Jacob wore an hundred and thirty, yet he says, "Few and evil," etc. 1. Romans 13:11-14 Delivered 11/04/2012 In Romans 12 and 13 Paul has been calling on believers to love; love each other, love their enemies, love everybody. 4. Into what a deep slumber some professing Christians have fallen! They have been plunged into the waters of spiritual baptism which has awakened and invigorated them to the utmost, and there is an expectation in the morning air that keeps every thought alert, and inspires activity — viz., of Him who shall come in the broadening day. Is it a time to sleep when each moment's slumber may take a pearl from the crown, a city from the sceptre? 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