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 Romans 13:11-14 New International Version

And do this, understanding the present time: The hour has already come for
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you to wake up from your slumber, because our salvation is nearer now than
when we first believed. 12 The night is nearly over; the day is almost here. So
let us put aside the deeds of darkness and put on the armor of light. 13 Let us
behave decently, as in the daytime, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in
sexual immorality and debauchery, not in dissension and jealousy. 14 Rather,
clothe yourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ, and do not think about how to
gratify the desires of the flesh.
 A Roman solider drafted to be a part of the army had a
tremendous responsibility that was basically built around
life and death.
1. He was engaged in warfare for the protection of his emperor and the protection of the
subjects of the empire.
2. He had a responsibility to lay his life on the line, protect his own life in order that he
might protect the lives of those he represented and defended.
3. He needed to be alert, he needed to be properly armed, he needed to be trained and
he needed to be ready.
He is saying it is time for you to put on the proper
garment, the proper armor to face the inevitability of the
hour in which we live.
And the armor which you put on, the garment which you wear is none

other than the Lord Jesus Christ.

It has three commands:

1. Wake up
2. Throw off
3. Put on
Wake up
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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.
Its time to Wake up.
It's time for us to act.
This is no time for sleep, this is no time for slumber; there are pressing things at
hand. .

It's not time for sleep. It's time

to be awake.
Wake up
1. it's a call to understand that there's something we're supposed to be busy
doing.
2. It's a call to take a look at priorities.
3. It's a call to see what you're doing with your life.
We don't have that much time.
We don't know how much time God's going to give this world and we live in
the light of the fact that it could be over any day.

There are things in life we must do by way of necessity but

our lives need to be filled with the comprehension of the
priorities.
Night
1. Represents the present era. It represents man's day.
2. It is also the symbol of sin and the symbol of evil, and the
symbol of ungodliness.
3. A time of illusion. Ugliness and beauty are indistinguishable
in the night.
Gold and rocks are indistinguishable in the
night. Friend and foe are indistinguishable
in the night.
Dark is danger.
 We live in very serious times, closer to the
return of Christ than we have ever been.

It is a time to wake
up.
Slumber
"a state of inactivity with a loss of consciousness and a
decrease in responsiveness to events taking place."
It well describes many Christians who are definitely in a
state of inactivity with a loss of consciousness and a
decrease in responsiveness to what is really happening.

"Some people make things happen, some things watch

things happen and most people don't know what's
happening."
"For now is our salvation nearer than when
we first believed,"
1.This becomes a motivation to holy living,
2. A motivation to ministry,
3. A motivation to evangelism.

Time to wake up.