Error: Passwords should have at least 6 characters, Error: Usernames should only contain letters, numbers, dots, dashes, or underscores. 3. But this slumber becomes deeper and heavier, till the individual sleeps the sleep of death. The cry of the gospel trumpet is "Awake!" To the ungodly a catastrophe, to slumbering Christians a sore amazement, it will be to those who "wait for His appearing" what day is to the traveller who waits for the morning. 2. The New Testament Let our weapons be good weapons - the weapons of truth, justice, love. "To awake out of sleep." 11 Do this, knowing the time (Greek: kairon—from kairos), that it is already time for you to awaken out of sleep, for salvation is now nearer to us than when we first believed. a. The Gospels Time is a wonderful idea. Romans 13:11 (KJV) 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. Each fresh day should see us awake and diligent. "Cast off the works of darkness." Clear Advanced Options. Share on Facebook Share on Twitter. They will not bear to be separated, but we must disentangle them by considering how each of them bears on our own life and practice. 2. 4. This points to —(1) The fact of the Christian life having been begun. The wave that washes at your feet may return. (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. The expression signifies that the understanding receives a full impression of the reality of the world to come. Minor Prophets "Let us, therefore, cast off the works of darkness," etc. So soon to stand with the ransomed on the heights of glory and shout, "Thanks be to God, who hath given us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ! 6. 2. 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? It is daylight. 4. There are difficulties in God's providence that we cannot understand. The Lord has saved us from the sleep which is the first cousin to death — from indifference, unbelief, hardheartedness. "The day is at hand," and the pilgrims are bidden to anticipate it in the holy decorum of their lives, and to be clothed with the only garment worthy of the day, Christ Himself. And here is the everlasting argument, "It is high time... walk honestly as in the day. They cannot retard the day, but they make its progress a perpetual contest, so unlike the progress of the natural day in which dawn glows into morning, and morning melts into midday, etc. The prince of the power of the air keeps his servants well up to their work. It cannot act for us. THE WORD IS NEAR YOU. "Put on the armour of light" (Ephesians 6:2-17). Romans 13:11-14 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. I … II. 1. Brawls are for the night. But "works of darkness" may be regarded as including all sinful works. The Christian is to cast off everything that will not bear the light, to have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness. In this brief but extremely rich passage, Paul tells us that as Christians we are all “morning people.” The time is just before dawn, the sky is brightening, the alarm is ringing, day is at hand. GenesisExodusLeviticusNumbersDeuteronomyJoshuaJudgesRuth1 Samuel2 Samuel1 Kings2 Kings1 Chronicles2 ChroniclesEzraNehemiahEstherJobPsalmsProverbsEcclesiastesSong of SongsIsaiahJeremiahLamentationsEzekielDanielHoseaJoelAmosObadiahJonahMicahNahumHabakkukZephaniahHaggaiZechariahMalachiMatthewMarkLukeJohnActsRomans1 Corinthians2 CorinthiansGalatiansEphesiansPhilippiansColossians1 Thessalonians2 Thessalonians1 Timothy2 TimothyTitusPhilemonHebrewsJames1 Peter2 Peter1 John2 John3 JohnJudeRevelation, The Whole Bible "Lift up your heads with joy, for your redemption draweth nigh.". 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. NET RSV ASV YLT DBY WEB HNV. 2. Is it not wonderful that God bears with our indifference? )LinksRomans 13:11 NIVRomans 13:11 NLTRomans 13:11 ESVRomans 13:11 NASBRomans 13:11 KJVRomans 13:11 Bible AppsRomans 13:11 ParallelRomans 13:11 Biblia ParalelaRomans 13:11 Chinese BibleRomans 13:11 French BibleRomans 13:11 German BibleRomans 13:11 CommentariesBible Hub, (3)The night of sin and suffering. It is something that you know because God said it. 3. Failure is written on the forces of sin. Salvation" is a life, a work, a growth, a consummation, a progress from first principles to complete and glorious development and crowning. That is a world of light in which we shall both know ourselves and be known as we really are. 1. In chapter 12: 9 he speaks of the core quality of a Christ-like life, which is sincere love. His path is as "the shining light that shineth more and more unto the perfect day."II. A call to amendment. The accumulation of privileges. Clear Advanced Options. AN INFINITE BLESSING WHICH IS FUTURE. The closeness of the end. You know not that you will live till to-morrow. But He did not banish them, and so they haunt the travellers. 14). The Christian sees "through a glass darkly" now. AN URGENT DUTY. "The night is far spent. UNCERTAINTY. (3)The night of sin and suffering. 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. A very large number of us are half asleep. Don M. Aycock. They would have us believe, with Canon Taylor, that missions are a failure. 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. As the captain said to Jonah, "What meanest thou, O sleeper?" TIME TO AWAKEN OUT OF SLEEP. 5. And it is possible to drug the soul to seeming sleep by deliberate perseverance in any known sin. It is plain that this exhortation is addressed to Christians, for the writer adds, "for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed." And it is the duty of all who know the time to echo the apostle's cry. You may go home to-night to offer the last prayer at the family altar which you will ever utter on earth. 2. 2. Can you sleep still? 3. I have known a man profess to be converted, but he has merely put religion over his old character. He who can look back to when he believed, looks back upon a period of unparalleled moment and eternal influence. ", (3) The dark hours of pain and sorrow will soon be over. For salvation is nearer to us now than when we became believers; the night is far gone, the day is near. 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). 1. 1. THE NIGHT IS ONLY "FAR SPENT" AND THE DAY ONLY "AT HAND. He must lose his particular sorrow in the general joy. It is its duty pre-eminently to seek to leaven this civilisation. So soon to be done with earth and sin and evil and conflict! There are many thoughts crowded together here, but each is necessary to the other. Recognizing the value of consistent reflection upon the Word of God in order to refocus one's mind and heart upon Christ and His Gospel of peace, we provide several reading plans designed to cover the entire Bible in a year. Truth, rightousness, gospel of peace, faith, salvation, the word of God. ", 1. Put on your morning dress. That only seems real which is visible and present. 5. If there be any who imagine that the prospects indicated may lead to licentiousness, let them receive their final refutation. It is a certainty. It follows, then, from this symbol, that the Christian should not be asleep. The salvation will be a salvation from death to life; from sin to holiness; from shame to glory, Divine and everlasting.3. Self righteousness is the sleep of delusion. The mortifying of the flesh, and a clear, unmistakable protest against the evil ways of the world. They see no traces of the breaking day. It belongs to Him to regulate this who is the Author and the Finisher of faith. It is all death, and not worth reckoning. IN DARKNESS. Time is a wonderful idea. In the deepest midnight of heathenism some rays of truth and virtue struggled with the darkness, and over one favoured land the moon and the stars shone brightly. Consider how unsuitable sloth is to the prospects before you. Yet you may find so vast a disproportion between the energy exerted and the energy demanded, that the actual wakefulness is practical listlessness. 4. The context shows a sad state of things, the reason for which was the recent conversion of the Roman Christians from heathenism, or the prevalence of Antinomianism. Please see Blue Letter Bible's Privacy Policy for cookie usage details. Romans 13:11-14 Don M. Aycock. Romans 13.11-14. For the most Christ-like is never enough like Christ. It is all death, and not worth reckoning. 3. The cultivation of Christian holiness. The discovery of printing had already prepared the way for the spread of the emancipated Bible. We are to wage war with our own temptations, and with the evil that is in the world. Your foes may be found in your own household, and they may wound you at your own table. Some people are too fine to do real service for the Lord. There are difficulties in reconciling religion and science. To the Corinthians Paul said, "Let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh or spirit. And if one man become a ruler over ten cities, and another over five, and another over two, each receiving in exact proportion to his improvement of talents, then it is clear that our strivings will have a vast influence on our recompense. "Now is our salvation nearer than when we believed." ", (1)The night of spiritual conflict. I cannot think of any scientific reason that that would be so, but I believe that we are in one of the darkest eras in the history of man. To cleanse ourselves from the works of darkness. "Our salvation" of final reward and happiness. How happy are they who have obtained precious faith through the righteousness of God and our Saviour Jesus Christ! 3. the epistle lessons for Ash Wednesday: Romans 13: 11-13; 1 Corinthians 1:8; 1 Thessalonians 3: 13). 4. 1. 3. As the ship which is within a few hours' sail of the haven has sometimes been driven out to sea to struggle for weeks with winds and waves, till the crew are exhausted with hunger, fear, and toil, so has the indolence of saints been punished by a prolonged stay in this scene of trouble, instead of having an entrance ministered to them abundantly into the kingdom of the Saviour.Conclusion: 1. Rate this sermon from 1 to 5 'stars' with just a click, then close.] SOMETIMES DREAM, and then we live amidst fancy forms. Paul is saying this ought to be a motivating force in our life. "(Homiletic Monthly. 3. Some works are literally works of darkness, as for example those specified in the thirteenth verse. Persons walk along giddy heights safely enough when fast asleep, where they would not venture when wide awake. You are in an enemy's country: put on the armour of light. Not only will there be a deliverance, but a crowning. 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. 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. Observe the date from which the apostle begins to reckon. They are only temporary clouds. 2. Once they were roused from the slumbers of spiritual death, but they are gone back. "The night is far spent." III. ", 2. (3)The night of sin and suffering. 4. It is something that you know because God said it. And that - The word "that," in this place, is connected in signification with the word ""this" in Romans 13:9.The meaning may be thus expressed: All the requirements of the Law toward our neighbor may be met by two things: one is Romans 13:9-10 by love; the other is Romans 13:11-14 by remembering that we are near to eternity; keeping a deep sense of "this" truth before the mind. Sleep indicates inactivity to make our election sure. 1. "HIGH TIME TO AWAKE OUT OF OUR SLEEP.". Revelation unites in one solemn and most conclusive pledge, that having through grace believed, and being by that grace in that faith preserved, we shall enjoy the delights which are treasured up in the everlasting kingdom. 2. Let it be considered, too, that the present is a time marked by the peculiar activity of some in the cause of Christ. If a drinking bout is held it is usually at night. )LinksRomans 13:11 NIVRomans 13:11 NLTRomans 13:11 ESVRomans 13:11 NASBRomans 13:11 KJVRomans 13:11 Bible AppsRomans 13:11 ParallelRomans 13:11 Biblia ParalelaRomans 13:11 Chinese BibleRomans 13:11 French BibleRomans 13:11 German BibleRomans 13:11 CommentariesBible Hub, (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. Lesson 91: Your Present Walk and the Coming Day (Romans 13:11-14) 1. Of many who have made a profession of the gospel and felt its power. 2. It is something that you can take to the bank. 4. AS A CORRECTIVE OF INACTION AND TORPOR, AND TO INSPIRE ONCE MORE WITH HOLY ENTERPRISE ANY WHO SLEEP, THERE IS A TWOFOLD INCENTIVE. "All things continue as they were" is the cry of unbelief. This is your salvation, and will you not gladly retire from the vulgar objects of this perishing world, and ascending to the summit of the Delectable Mountains, look through the clear azure upon the fair and sublime inheritance which is reserved for you? The woman in despair of her soul said, "Call back time again, then there may be a hope for me: but time is gone for ever!" 1. 2. If I can realise that in so short a time my eternal salvation shall be consummated, I cannot any longer neglect a single opportunity of serving my Master. If we judged them by their outward actions we should think they were wide awake, and they do what they do very well. The Sleep of the Church. a. Which ever force you yield to. 2. The anodyne is so powerful that none but the great Physician can apply a suitable remedy. If there were no connection between what we do in this life, and what we shall receive in the next, it would still be impossible for true Christians to be indolent. If a man be secure of salvation, to tell him that the end is at hand does not look like urging him to exertion. I hate that clock. The Christian is put to school at conversion, and year by year he grows in grace and love and holiness, till his graduation day. )LinksRomans 13:11 NIVRomans 13:11 NLTRomans 13:11 ESVRomans 13:11 NASBRomans 13:11 KJVRomans 13:11 Bible AppsRomans 13:11 ParallelRomans 13:11 Biblia ParalelaRomans 13:11 Chinese BibleRomans 13:11 French BibleRomans 13:11 German BibleRomans 13:11 CommentariesBible Hub. II. Yet human instruments are employed. 1. Renounce the deeds of darkness. If we are getting more ready for heaven, we ought to be more awake, for sleepiness is not the state of heavenly spirits. Prophets Above all the billows Jehovah's power has kept you. And it is possible to sleep spiritually the sleep of delusion. Is it a time to sleep when each moment's slumber may take a pearl from the crown, a city from the sceptre? 3. Enough of your time has passed in an unaroused, unawakened state already. Time the measure of life of a being capable of thought, endowed with conscience, gifted with immortality. This being the common prospect it is not wonderful that the Christian state is that of joyful hope. Each morning we wake up to an alarm. Life depending on exertion. The sun has risen. 3. First, since God puts every human authority in place to serve His purposes, Christians must submit to them; this idea comes with a particular context. Conclusion: There are some of you who are not nearer your salvation than when you believed; because, first, you never did believe; and, secondly, that which you are nearer to is not salvation. b. 2. If you slumber with salvation so near, you will provoke God to awaken you by a shock dreadful and trying. Now, though it is not probable that any of you are sleeping this sleep of darkness, yet drowsiness generally comes before sleep. -------------------- Covering for nakedness. And as to those to whom the probabilities of prolonged life may seem strong, how can they tell but that at this very moment they may be on the verge? 1. "Let us put on the armour of light." But when I turn to the believer, there is by no means the same appearance of force in the motive. 13 Let us behave decently, as in the daytime, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and … Paul does not say, "If you do not wake you will be lost." Prophets NET RSV ASV YLT DBY WEB HNV. 1. 3. (3) Passion, "strife and envying." The only way by which this change can be effected is by the powerful operation of the Spirit on the mind. Past conquests lend a power for future triumphs. Whilst this is true, even of the youngest Christian, it is pre-eminently true of those who are far advanced in life. In Romans 12 and 13 Paul has been calling on believers to love; love each other, love their enemies, love everybody. 1. 24:42-44), “Therefore be on the alert, for you do not know which day your Lord is coming. Is an infatuation of Satan. Pauline Epistles Romans 12:1-2 exhorted us to live in the present in light of God’s past mercies to us. V. POWERLESSNESS. How happily is this consideration adapted to lighten the infirmities of old age! have been wrecked before our eyes; but we had opportunities of bringing some of the shipwrecked ones to safety. Gratitude does indeed become us when we consider the value of the blessings which are imparted, or the principle upon which those blessings are secured and bestowed. There is from age to age a faithful succession of watchers and holy ones, and when the Bridegroom shall approach all will be wakeful enough; but till then the pilgrim company shall never lack those who move "like men that dream." 3. Our age is one eminent for —(1) Its secular activities in the direction of commerce, science, and education. 1. More opportunities — and you young people especially should be looking out. There are few persons who must not cherish some interesting remembrances. This expression intimates that, in the day of believing, the soul's connection with salvation commences. You are soon to associate with those who serve God day and night in His temple; and shall you now slumber? Between these two points we are now sailing; and at the close of the year it seems meet just to note where we are, and to congratulate my fellow believers that we are nearer the eternal port that when we first slipped our cable. 2. Minor Prophets To betake ourselves to diligence and duty. Paul writing to the church in Thessolonica said, 3. 3. Read verse in New King James Version GenesisExodusLeviticusNumbersDeuteronomyJoshuaJudgesRuth1 Samuel2 Samuel1 Kings2 Kings1 Chronicles2 ChroniclesEzraNehemiahEstherJobPsalmsProverbsEcclesiastesSong of SongsIsaiahJeremiahLamentationsEzekielDanielHoseaJoelAmosObadiahJonahMicahNahumHabakkukZephaniahHaggaiZechariahMalachiMatthewMarkLukeJohnActsRomans1 Corinthians2 CorinthiansGalatiansEphesiansPhilippiansColossians1 Thessalonians2 Thessalonians1 Timothy2 TimothyTitusPhilemonHebrewsJames1 Peter2 Peter1 John2 John3 JohnJudeRevelation, Select an Ending Point 2. 2. 13 Let us behave decently, as in the daytime, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual … Romans 13:11-14 Recommend this sermon to others. A living Church is the grand antidote to all the evils incidental to our civilisation. 3. They have fits and starts of wakefulness, and then off to sleep again. Romans 13:11-14 exhorts us to live in the present in light of the future return of Jesus Christ. The New Testament We are too indifferent to the value of time. 3. After the first few stages there begins to be accumulated a fund of experience; the sense of strangeness goes, and the faculties begin to adapt themselves to the new mode of life, and the man soon begins to have a foretaste of some of the fruits of his labour. The Gospels And when we call to mind that in the parable all the virgins, the wise as well as the foolish, slumbered, we cannot but conclude that there is no privilege to godly men of dispensing with watchfulness. He must do it before daybreak, and "the night is far spent." This change is called a being turned from darkness to light — a being quickened — becoming children of the light and of the day, etc. St. Paul is speaking not to those who were asleep in sin, but to active Christians. The man acts as though he believed that the true end of life is to glorify God; and hence he seeks to obtain a change of heart and life — cultivates holy principles, practises holy actions, and has respect in all things to the recompense of the reward. The battlefield of good and evil is here. Seeing ye look for such things, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness? Sleep is a season of —(1) Forgetfulness, and men by nature are forgetful of the ends of their being, of their true character — of the awful attributes of eternity, etc. You are ten years nearer heaven, then. III. The time for accomplishing it is rapidly contracting. At the end of each day we can say, "I am one day closer to the coming of Jesus Christ." I hate that clock. A man may be awake as to all the things of time, and asleep as to all the concerns of eternity. There are two reasons why the consciousness of having less time to live should urge Christians to be increasingly earnest. 3. 2. 3. The following is a sermon from Romans 13:11-14 and below you will find the video recording and a sermon outline to help you follow along as you watch. 11 And do this, understanding the present time: The hour has already come(A)for you to wake up from your slumber,(B)because our salvation is nearer now than when we first believed. (2) Leave also all lethargy behind you. I know a brother who often takes forty winks in the day-time: you may nudge him, and he will wake and listen to you, but he goes to sleep again in a few minutes if you let him alone. Romans 13:11-14 Theme: The Christian tradition invites us to celebrate 3 advents the 4 weeks of advent. And we have known professors going on very carefully, exactly where others have fallen, and have attributed it to the grace of God, whereas in part it has been attributable to the fact that they were spiritually asleep. 2. (2) Ignorance, and the unconverted man has no discernment as to spiritual things. Christians advanced in life are warranted to conclude that their salvation is very near. Jesus gave to His disciples the signs of His return, and then said, "When these things begin to come to pass, look up, and lift up your heads, for your redemption draweth nigh.". The wakefulness and diligence here summoned has respect not only to our own salvation, but also to the salvation of others. It was easier to awake and believe. D. Paul also saw that the church was asleep, but he is saying it is time to wake up from our sleep. Embed coganhousecommunitychurch 8 views 2020-11-09T10:50:03 Now is the Time by Pastor Cleveland Way, November 8, 2020. A. The fairest sights may be around us, but, so long as we are asleep, for us they do not exist. Let us attend to the view here given of THE PRIVILEGE OF GOOD MEN — "Now is their salvation nearer than when they believed.". But the peculiarity of this passage is that it gives prominence to a certain interval of transition, which reality requires and the Scripture never denies. That world is consecrated to unsullied and universal holiness. Life before death is night, suggestive of imperceptibility. 4. 2. Christianity does not allow the believer to imagine that everything is done when a title to the kingdom is obtained. 1. How utterly insensible they are to the sins and sorrows of those around them. Earnest activity in this high vocation is urged by the nearness of our own salvation; and because of the nearness of our own salvation therefore our opportunities for usefulness are rapidly contracting. A. I believe that God wants us to know the times in which we live. 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