Yet you may find so vast a disproportion between the energy exerted and the energy demanded, that the actual wakefulness is practical listlessness. Men have been taught to consider salvation bestowed in its completeness upon believing that Christ is the sacrifice for the world's sin, and all that thereafter remains is heaven; whereas salvation simply begins then — nothing more. "They that be drunken are drunken in the night." Can you sleep still? "The day is at hand." 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! Let our weapons be good weapons - the weapons of truth, justice, love. (3)The night of sin and suffering. "Let us cast off the works of darkness" (ver. Enough of your time has passed in an unaroused, unawakened state already. Visuals: various items such as potholder, pajamas, trowel or other small garden tool, fork, baby clothes and baby (all inside a paper bag). The light is divided from the darkness absolutely. Romans 13:11-13 - Awakened from Being Spiritually Comatose. Our time is given to be his disciples making him and his love known in the world. ", 2. 2. difficulties are only apparent. 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. "Cast off the works of darkness." Some amongst you are very near to salvation indeed. (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. But this slumber becomes deeper and heavier, till the individual sleeps the sleep of death. Not only will the darkness be gone for ever, but the day of perfect and eternal sunlight will have come. Our age is one eminent for —(1) Its secular activities in the direction of commerce, science, and education. 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! Our own day may be over within an hour or two. For salvation is nearer to us now than when we became believers; the night is far gone, the day is near. 1. The salvation will be a salvation from death to life; from sin to holiness; from shame to glory, Divine and everlasting.3. 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. Sermon Bible Commentary. "Knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep.". The Greek word, however, may be understood to signify not only armour, but such garments as are fitted and suitable for the day's work. “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” (Romans 13:11). The night is this period of time that we are living in—in the darkness of Satan's rule over the earth, under the governance of men, deceived by all the false religions, and so forth. 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 man may be awake as to all the things of time, and asleep as to all the concerns of eternity. Oh, what a heaven to be with Him! THE CALL TO AWAKE. A call to activity. It cannot destroy the soul, though it ends the life. Pitts Creek and Beaver Dam Churches. So let us put aside the deeds of darkness and put on the armor of light. Every time you hear in vain, you grow more sleepy, and the preacher's voice becomes only as so much music to lull you. 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. Email. 2. "Let us put on the armour of light" (ver. 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. We have plenty of enemies that are awake if we are not. A Sermon by Martin Luther; taken from his Church Postil of 1521. 1. (1) There is much to strive for even if a man be secure of salvation. Who can blame the sleeper when it is a question of infirmity or sheer exhaustion? How cold and stupid are the hearts of saints in such circumstances when they engage in prayer! That day will be perfect when Christ shall come "without sin unto salvation.". All over Scripture, the answer is cle… Read More. Is induced by a false conception of the atonement and the nature of salvation. Let us be as intrepid in the things of God as we are in those of our own. 1. How happily is this consideration adapted to lighten the infirmities of old age! But His coming will be to His Church the regular and peaceful consummation of a day already begun. The scales of justice and Truth are not just out of balance, they are in danger of toppling over. 4. Ought we not to be more awake? The words remind these early travellers of the great secret that the Lord is at hand, bringing with Him all that their hope can conceive. "Let us put on the armour of light." This expression intimates that, in the day of believing, the soul's connection with salvation commences. "When you believed." Here existence, is night, there day. UNCERTAINTY. Please use these sermons as the Lord leads, but nothing on this site may be used for profit without my expressed, written permission! 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. Since then you have had a good number of storms. II. Apathy and lethargy are problems that often afflict the people of God... a. - Live Stream (December-05-2020), Joyce Meyer - You're Wasting Time Being Angry (December-05-2020), Psalms & Proverbs - Psalm 81:1-16, Proverbs 25:6-7. "Put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ." But Paul goes on to explain, right from the beginning of Romans, in chapter 1 verses 16-17, he gives the remedy for sin problem. 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. 1. II. II. "Let us, therefore, cast off the works of darkness," etc. They would have us believe, with Canon Taylor, that missions are a failure. 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? Do not encourage infidel thoughts. (13:11-14) INTRODUCTION 1. The conscience becomes hardened, and all for a time seems peace. Jeffrey T. Howard. The man that lives as Christ would live, is thereby made impervious to the shafts of the enemy. She walked in, and sat down. 2. More Sermons by Martin Luther. No claims of absolute originality are made for this material. Some Christians are always looking on the dark side of things. 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. Do not let us waste any more. Can you slumber while they thus hold forth the Word of life? The Joy Of Faith. But it is those who want such movements to fail that usually originate such a cry. (3) Insensibility, and the natural man is unalarmed and secure amidst all the danger by which he is surrounded. 5. It would help your sermon if you wore some kind of “garment” that signified your ordination or calling. 3. In the world there is a constant influence to produce this stupor. 1. Nothing is more beautiful and more symbolical of eager expectation than the dawn. Like Sir Galahad, whose strength was as the strength of ten because his heart was pure, the man who is Christ-like in spirit will overcome all temptations, and will grapple victoriously with all difficulties. Beware of the beginnings of doubts. And so, startingwith his current age and computing how many days he had left, this manfilled a jar with marbles - one marble for every remaining day of life,according to this Psalm. It is at that happy season that a man is brought from a state of condemnation into a state of acceptance, and that a principle of holiness is implanted in the soul. 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. That only seems real which is visible and present. You have so long listened to the rolling of the thunder that your ears are now deaf to its sound. Salvation" is a life, a work, a growth, a consummation, a progress from first principles to complete and glorious development and crowning. 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! Romans 13 tackles three big areas that living-sacrifice Christians must address. )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. 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. (1) To evince the genuineness and reality of their faith. It may be addressed also to the unconverted. But looking still further ahead, when we remember we are nearer our salvation think of what that salvation will be. God is putting the finishing touches on the salvation work he began when we first believed. They have fits and starts of wakefulness, and then off to sleep again. Revolving suns bring it continually nearer. Text: Romans 13:11-13. 1. It follows, then, from this symbol, that the Christian should not be asleep. 2. 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. There is only One who can save us — Christ; and unless we take Him to be our Saviour, Church ordinances avail us nothing. This sleep, however, has not the restfulness of natural sleep. Revolving suns bring it continually nearer. So let us put aside the deeds of darkness and put on the armor of light. 1. It is not over yet; but they must be fewer than they were. ", 1. (2) There remains less time in which to glorify God. In the agency by which it was accomplished. 2. Others are prone to be overtaken with an oft-recurring sleep. (2) Leave also all lethargy behind you. The wave that washes at your feet may return. 3. You are ten years nearer heaven, then. This must be, that the whole of Christian character may be developed, and that the whole of Christian duty may be performed. What able to be done during its progress. There are few persons who must not cherish some interesting remembrances. Romans 13:11-14 . Here the Christian is presented to us as a soldier. All the power to be holy, forgiving, heroic, enthusiastic in the service of God, comes through Christ when we are in Him. Nov 30, 2003. The encouragement is to point us to the source of joy and peace which is found in the hope we have in Christ. Paul is using the day/night metaphor here, but he switches them, and the night is far spent. )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)Nearer at the close of each year, each day. With them it is always night. 4. There was a Sunday Morning several years ago when one of our people at our church came to services. That world is consecrated to unsullied and universal holiness. Compared with eternity it is but a speck in the heavens, a grain of sand on the shore, and yet it has given birth to creation, and its cycles have brought wondrous revelations. (2) The adoption of all good. Name. 2. The only way by which this change can be effected is by the powerful operation of the Spirit on the mind. Let us attend to the view here given of THE PRIVILEGE OF GOOD MEN — "Now is their salvation nearer than when they believed.". Like a person sleeping in a house on fire, unless the deadly charm is broken, we must be consumed. Romans 12-16: Inductive Bible Studies; RAY PRITCHARD. 11). (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. We are like somnambulists, walking among great realities without knowing it. We have here —. 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!" THE MORNING GOSPEL. Then, next to Jesus, we shall be with all the bright spirits who have gone before us. Of all days that on which you first left shore was the brightest of all; and you know that those who go to dwell on the other side of the world look back with satisfaction at the day when they left. You have had a great deal of fair weather, too, since you left port. © 2014 - 2020 Sermons Online. Submission to Civil Authority. Raiment for all emergencies. Let us attend to the view which is here given of THE DUTY REQUIRED OF THEM. A great many opportunities have already slipped away. To betake ourselves to diligence and duty. By prayer we have advanced some steps. Illustrate with Howard, Raikes, etc. MY REALIZATION OF THE TIME – Vs. 11. Check out these helpful resources Biblical Commentary Sermons Children’s Sermons Hymn Lists. Some time after the operation he was led out of the dark room, and the shade lifted. "Lo here is the promise of His coming, or lo there" is the cry of impatient credulity. 2. The preacher may be delivering his last sermon. But the language is only general to find out the individual. But simple faith waits on in hope that makes no calculation. John Charles Hagee (born April 12, 1940) is the founder and senior pastor of Cornerstone Church, a megachurch in San Antonio, Texas. New nations have arisen to sway the destinies of the world - the nations of the Bible-loving, liberty-loving, Anglo-Saxon race. But the measure of every one's heaven hereafter depends upon the spiritual meetness which has been developed in him here. Assumes that faith has an established connection with salvation. 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. Where is that struggling which would result from the combination of an eye all faith and a heart all love? Nevertheless there are hopeful signs. Let our armour be the armour of light. 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? Some of you are sixty years nearer to heaven than you were. Romans 13: 11-14----- FROM chapter 12: 9 Paul has been outlining the way Christian's ought to live in the light of the love of God they have experienced through the Gospel of salvation received by faith. Not only will the darkness be gone for ever, but the day of perfect and eternal sunlight will have come. KNOWING THE TIME. Christianity does not allow the believer to imagine that everything is done when a title to the kingdom is obtained. 3. You who are not of the night must not dote on the world's shadows, but look for eternal realities. The Lord has saved us from the sleep which is the first cousin to death — from indifference, unbelief, hardheartedness. "Now is our salvation nearer than when we believed." Is an infatuation of Satan. John Hagee (October-22-2020) Daily Devotion: Romans 13:11 - And do this, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep; for now our salvation is nearer than when we first believed. This is the first Sunday of Advent. put off the works of darkness; put on the armour of light. Yet the. The perfect day will bring a full salvation, but that is only "nearer than when we believed." "It is high time to awake out of sleep." So near to heaven! 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. 5. There are many thoughts crowded together here, but each is necessary to the other. Religious inactivity. Meditation, casual and unsettled, must give place to eager and fixed contemplation; and with the feelings of a heart which regards Jesus Christ as all, we must follow hard after Him. It belongs to Him to regulate this who is the Author and the Finisher of faith. Life before death is night, suggestive of imperceptibility. Ignorance, crime, etc. Pastor's Page. Worldly business, pleasure, honour and applause, become the means of bringing us into a state of declension. 3. 4. It is a change which produces a complete reverse. KNOWING THE TIME . How many a man has saved his life, home, reputation, by energy! Scripture: Romans 11:1–6. It intimates that saints sometimes fall into a state of indolence and carelessness. A Sermon on Romans 13:11-14 Besides this you know the time, that the hour has come for you to wake from sleep. There are many thoughts crowded together here, but each is necessary to the other. We are too indifferent to the value of time. Our topic for this morning is 'Awakened from being Spiritually Comatose.' Romans 13:11. You are in an enemy's country: put on the armour of light. "(1)The night of spiritual conflict. The Reformation shook off the dust of centuries from the Word of God. It might be supposed from the watchman's cry that the whole band were slumbering, or at least only half awake. The boy who was born blind was cured. The Christian state is at the best, in many respects, no better than the dawn. A very large number of us are half asleep. 3. Romans 13:11-14 Theme: The Christian tradition invites us to celebrate 3 advents the 4 weeks of advent. The wakefulness and diligence here summoned has respect not only to our own salvation, but also to the salvation of others. II. 3. "Let us walk honestly, as in the day," let our demeanour be such as becomes daylight. Protestantism may slumber, but Jesuitism never does. They say, "What is to be will be, and the Lord's purpose will be fulfilled; there will be some saved and others lost," as coolly as if they were talking of a wasp's nest. 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. Consider how unsuitable sloth is to the prospects before you. 1. Doubtless the darkness that preceded Christ's advent was not perfect night. 3. And this salvation is nearer the Christian's grasp to-day than when he first believed. The salvation will be a salvation from death to life; from sin to holiness; from shame to glory, Divine and everlasting.3. Romans 15. 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. "It is high time to awake out of sleep." Let it be considered, too, that the present is a time marked by the peculiar activity of some in the cause of Christ. WHAT FOLLOWS?1. Besides this, you know what time it is, how it is now the moment for you to wake from sleep. Sermon. The Christian is put to school at conversion, and year by year he grows in grace and love and holiness, till his graduation day. Knowledge of salvation. 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. Already we may hear the sound of his chariot-wheels. (2) Nearer at the close of each year, each day. Forasmuch as faith makes us one with Christ, there must be community of interest. John Piper Nov 2, 2003 36 Shares Sermon. For the most Christ-like is never enough like Christ. God and duty, and all spiritual realities seem often to fade away into mere phantoms in the clash and hurry of commerce. Awake — "It is high time to awake out of sleep. 2. It is daylight. A CONDITION OF DANGER. 1. IV. And it is possible to sleep spiritually the sleep of delusion. I cannot doubt but that the message was delivered. Note —. How dark is the hour of sickness! Romans 1:8-16 Romans 1:8-16 Romans 1:8-23 Romans 1:12 Romans 1:14 Romans 1:14-17 Romans 1:16 Romans 1:16 Romans 1:16 Romans 1:16 Romans 1:17 Romans 1:18 Romans 1:18 Romans 1:18ff Romans 1:18-24 Romans 1:18-25 Romans 1:18-25 Romans 1:18-32 Romans 1:18-32 Romans 1:19 Romans … Faith did not arise from the spontaneous influence of your own mind, or from the influence of others. To repentance — "Put off the works of darkness. Nov 9, 2003. 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 … Actually nigh. 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. Scripture: Romans 11:1–10. It is nearer in order of time. 2.