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Turn to 1 Thessalonians and chapter
5. 1 Thessalonians chapter 5. We'll
read together the first 11 verses of the chapter. And our text
for this evening is taken from the verses 7 through 11, the
latter part of our reading. First Thessalonians chapter 5
reading from verse 1. But of the times and the seasons
brethren ye have no need that I write unto you or yourselves
know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief
in the night for when they shall say peace and safety then sudden
destruction cometh upon them as travail upon a woman with
child and they shall not escape. But ye brethren are not in darkness,
that that day should overtake you as a thief. Ye are all the
children of the light and the children of the day. We are not
of the night or of darkness. Therefore, let us not sleep as
do others, but let us watch and be sober. And now our text for
this evening. For they that sleep, sleep in
the night, and they that be drunken are drunken in the night. But
let us who are of the day be sober putting on the breastplate
of faith and love, and for an helmet, the hope of salvation. For God had not appointed us
to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ, who
died for us, that whether we wake or sleep, we should live
together with him. Therefore, comfort yourselves
together and edify one another, even as also ye do. Amen. That's fine reading God's holy
and inspired word. What the covenant people of God,
you'll remember that the last time as we were working out,
been working our way through this letter to the Thessalonians
that Paul has been addressing matters concerning the last things,
the last days and when Jesus Christ will come again. Rising
out of that, our Lord has been encouraging us to live lives
that are appropriate to, that are according to that truth concerning
Jesus coming again. There is, as we saw last time,
a great destruction for those who are spiritually asleep, that
that day of the Lord will overtake them like a thief in the night
and bring utter ruin and destruction. They will not see the day of
the Lord coming. But we who are of the day, Paul
says, you will see it if you're awake and you are sober and watching,
he says, that you'll you'll see it, that you will be right with
the Lord and have an eager anticipation and awaiting Jesus Christ, ready
not only for the coming, but ready to enter into the fullness
of that life. But Paul hasn't finished with
this subject. There's more to take to heart
and there's more to understand here concerning this soberness,
more for the Thessalonians to understand. Remember that they
are facing ongoing severe persecution, opposition, a great deal of hardship
in their life in Thessalonica and they need especially to watch
and be sober. But the same is true for us too,
isn't it? We also face difficulties, trials, hardships, many blessings
as well that we have from the Lord. We ought to be so thankful
for all of that. But nevertheless, there are very
real trials. So we too need to be edified,
strengthened to face all that God plans for us. And we live
in the middle of a society that is spiritually asleep and drunk. Paul is now going to therefore
unpack a little more what it means to be spiritually sober,
not only so we can grasp that and understand it, but we can
practically put it into place. And the way we practically do
that is by actively having on our armour. So we take up our
text under the theme, being sober in our armour. We look at three
things. First of all, what this means. Secondly, Why we do this, why
do we be sober in our armour? Thirdly, to what purpose? Being sober in our armour. Paul reminds us that there are
those who are asleep or and drunk. Remember that he's not talking
about this physically. He's not talking about people
being physically asleep or physically drunk. He's speaking what we
call metaphorically. He's giving a picture or an illustration
of a reality. He's speaking of people who don't
in fact believe in reality. They don't want to know about
reality. That's what light is. When light is there, then you
can see things as they are. When things are dark, you don't
see things as they are. So someone who's in the dark
doesn't actually see the truth. They don't see reality. So people
who are spiritually asleep, spiritually drunk, they don't believe in
reality. They don't believe in God as he really is. They don't
believe in the truth concerning our world. that it is groaning
with sin and death, and that destruction is coming, and we
need desperately a saviour. They are asleep spiritually,
no awareness of those spiritual truths, in fact, no desire to
even know about that. In many ways, worse than the
animals. And they're drunk. This idea of being drunk is not
being drunk with alcohol, it is being drunk with all the sensual
pleasures of this world. In other words, just purely caught
up with the physical and the sensual, the things that we can
sense. In other words, full of things
like food, and drink, and experiences, and relationships, and money,
and possessions, and fame, and entertainment, and all of that
that people just have their lives awash with, so that they never
think about their soul. They never think about eternal
matters. about what life is truly all
about before the face of God. Paul says that these who are
asleep, these who are drunk, do so in the night. You notice
that he says, for verse 7, they that sleep, sleep in the night
and they that be drunken are drunken in the night. Once again,
he's not talking literally, although of course that kind of makes
sense in the picture, doesn't it? When does sleeping mainly
occur? At night time. When do people
mainly get really drunk? In the night time. And so this
picture becomes even more striking to us. The comparison is there
because the night or the darkness is also metaphorical, a spiritual
picture. What he means by night is that
such people, they continually live away from the light of truth. They're living away from what
is true and what is reality. They are ignorant spiritually
and they don't want the light and they don't want the truth. And because of that, because
they're living in the darkness, they're continually exposed to
and being damaged by all the spiritual lies and evil of this
world. It's a bit like the picture of
a sleepy drunk who then gets behind the wheel of a powerful
fast car What does it lead to? It's a
recipe for disaster, sorrow, death. And so it is for all human
beings in spiritual darkness. They are rapidly heading down
a very broad road to destruction. But, says Paul, but let us, who
are of the day, be sober. First we see here that same expression
we looked at last week as well. We are of the day and that's
a wonderful thing. It's not because of anything
we did and that's amazing and wonderful too. God has had mercy
on us and for that we can never stop thanking him. That he has
laid a hold upon us by his grace and he's made us spiritually
alive, he's opened our spiritual eyes, he's unblocked our spiritual
ears so that we can see, we can hear his truth. God lovingly has laid a hold
upon us and brought us out of that whole kingdom of darkness
in which we were willingly and we would have wanted to stay
there. But by the power of his grace, he's rescued us and brought
us out of that, made us to hear and see and know spiritual truth.
And we know that we're sinners. We know we deserve that eternal
destruction from God. But we're given knowledge and
a faith in Jesus Christ, that wonderful gift, so that we see
him and we know he's the only hope for us. We cast ourselves
upon him, seeking that forgiveness of our sins and knowing of His
blood washing us clean, wonderful righteousness given to us, life
for Him. So now we are of the day. We live in the kingdom of light
because God has made us citizens in that marvellous kingdom by
the power of His grace. And as citizens of the kingdom
of heaven, God continues then to enlighten us more and more.
We are children of the day. Being children of the day, He
says, OK, well, We, throughout the day, be sober. Be sober. Do you remember what
that word sober means? Because we looked at that last
week as well. It doesn't mean, remember, to be somber. Some
people think being sober means, you know, sort of having a bit
of a sour expression and being dour and, you know, no fun, that
sort of thing. No, that's not what the word
sober means at all. To be sober is the opposite of being drunk.
A drunk doesn't think clearly. Thinking is out the window, logic's
out the window. So to be sober means to have
crystal clear thinking. It means to be thinking clearly,
logically, to understand matters and to be taking them in and
to be alert and sharp and thinking clearly. But it also means responses. The drunk can respond in all
sorts of ways and never appropriately. But to be sober means we are
responding in a right and a glad and a joyful and a clear and
appropriate way. So this is the idea of being
sober. Of course, this is also in the
spiritual realm. To be sober means that we live
in the reality of what this life is about. To know I live right
before the face of God. I'm standing in his world and
he has put me here. To live in the reality that we're
sinners in need of salvation and that this world around about
us it groans with sin and is dying and we every day need salvation
in Jesus Christ in his grace and truth. So this is really
a call when Paul says here, but we who are of the day, he's saying,
Christians, are you listening? If you're of the day, are you
being sober? Are you like this? Are you really
awake and alert spiritually every single day? Or are you sort of
drifting along and just whatever feels nice? Or he says, are you
being sober? thinking with a crystal clear
understanding of what's happening in the world and how I'm to respond
gladly and appropriately according to the truth and grace of God. Are we applying ourselves logically,
rationally, spiritually to understand the truths of God, what he's
teaching me every day from the word he's bringing to me and
the situation in my life? Are we actively being sober? And now, the Holy Spirit brings
that home to us. This is how Paul's now going
to unpack, as I said, this a little more. But we're of the day, let
us be sober. Notice that he then immediately
says, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and for an
helmet, the hope of salvation. Do you understand the language?
As soon as you hear that language, breastplate, helmet, what's he
talking about? He doesn't need to use the word,
does he? This is a soldier. plain and obvious. Do you see
how this starts to bring that home to us? Can you imagine the
soldier who goes out onto the battlefield and he's drunk? Or the soldier that goes out
there and he's just half asleep? Are they going to last very long?
Nope, cut down. If you're a soldier in your old
day, do you understand how important it is to be sober, not affected
by alcohol, and to be alert, awake, on high alert, carefully,
in a crystal clear way, understanding everything that's happening around
about you and responding quickly and appropriately to all that's
happening. And so Paul's using this illustration. God uses this illustration to
bring home to us. This is what it's about, to be
sober. Paul says, putting on the armour. Now, in the English it sounds
like almost, but we who are of the day be sober, putting on,
and that in the English sounds like, okay, well, we need to
be sitting down. and starting to put this on,
you know, pull on the breastplate, and then when we've done that,
then we're going to be, you know, but it's in the original, it's
actually more having put on. So when you're on the battlefield,
you're not sitting there putting your armor on, it's already on,
it's already strapped on, it's ready to go. And that's what
Paul's really saying. Having put on this armor, be
sober. Paul, remember we saw in Ephesians
chapter 6, he gives a much more detailed list there of the Christian's
armour, but here he pairs it right down to, as it were, make
a point and particularly bring out these two parts of the armour
for emphasis. Two parts, the breastplate and
the helmet. Let's have a look at those two.
The breastplate of faith and love. Do you know what the breastplate
is? Breastplate for the soldier in
those days consisted of a large metal plate shaped and fitted
that would come down over the chest and the upper part of the
abdomen. But there was a back part as well. And so it would
cover the back and would sort of come together a bit like a
turtle's shell kind of thing. And then strapped together usually
with leather straps over the shoulders and around the side.
So it gave a full protection to the vital organs of the soldier. in his chest and his upper abdomen,
and particularly protected the heart. So, here is the breastplate,
but of course, once again, this is a spiritual picture, isn't
it? It's the breastplate of, in other words, this is what
it actually is for the Christian, not a metal plate, but it's faith
and love. Faith. the powerful gift of God,
worked by the Holy Spirit in us, that is given to us, whereby,
with that faith, we are enabled to trust in the saving work of
the Lord Jesus Christ, that we are enabled to believe in the
truth of God and what he tells us in his word, and to believe
especially in Jesus, who was sent by God to be our saviour.
to trust in the truth that this is the way in which we're saved
in this dying world. That he truly was the son of
God, sent and became man and lived upon this earth and lived
a perfect life of righteousness so that can be ours by faith. And died a perfect death to pay
for all the sin and the punishment and the shame so that it was
taken away and that we can be made right with the law. But
it's not only faith. But it's the breastplate of faith
and love. This is that infinite love of
God for us to begin with. That He, despite the fact that
we were sinners deserving of His anger and His justice, instead
He chose to save some who were wretchedly ugly and filthy in
the kingdom of darkness and to save us in that love. Not because
of anything in us. but purely out of his amazing
love, mercy and grace to rescue us. And he then sheds abroad
in our heart through the Holy Spirit that love. So we know
that. And we begin to understand, Lord, this is amazing that you
should love us. And then having received that
love, God also works in us that same love, so we begin to respond.
And that's this love also, it's a responding love to God in that
soberness to love God for all that he has done for us. We love
him because he first loved us, and we begin to love neighbour
as well. So here is our breastplate of
faith, trusting in the Lord Jesus Christ and in our God and in
all that truth, and love, a love of God for us that's lifted up
and calls us to life in return. That's impenetrable armor for
our heart. We can trust in this. And no
matter what weapon comes against us, that Satan tries to use against
us, Or the world tries to throw against us to overcome us. Or
even that old man of sin tries to throw against us. This armour
is provided by God. And it functions as we soberly
grow in this. You notice, this is the soberness.
This is the crystal clear thinking of understanding. How has God
done this? And what has he done? And what has he done for me?
And we keep learning and growing. And as that does so, that armour
becomes stronger. by his grace, by his working
in us. Then there's the helmet of the
hope of salvation. Helmet, it's pretty obvious isn't
it? It means up here on the head, literally the Greek means that
which goes around the head. That's what the idea of the helmet. It's where the thinking goes
on isn't it? This is where all the sober reflection
and understanding and meditating and the decisions come from.
This is all happening in our head, in our mind. And that means
protection for the soldier and for the Christian. This helmet
is, what is it? It's hope. The helmet is the
hope of our salvation. Remember, what's biblical hope?
Biblical hope isn't the sort of thing the world often talks
about, when it talks about hope, what it means by that is kind
of a wistful, wishful thinking, oh maybe this would be so nice
if this would happen, probably won't happen, but oh boy, that'd
be great. No, no, right, that's not biblical
hope, that might be world's hope. What's biblical hope? Biblical
hope is this, that which is coming in the future, that we know because
God has promised it, is absolutely sure and certain and it is coming,
And we know it through faith that this is true. And we have
an eager anticipation for it coming and its arrival. That's
biblical hope. We have a hope in God. We have
a hope in heaven. We have a hope in the resurrection.
We have a hope in our salvation. And that word really ties the
whole thing all in together. These are most sure and certain
things that are coming, that we know. We don't see them yet,
we haven't received them in full yet, but we have a hope for them. We haven't received the fullness
of our salvation yet. Have we been saved? Absolutely.
We've been saved. If we have a true faith in Jesus
Christ, if we have believed in him, If we have indeed seen the
truth of what the Bible says, that we are sinners and that
we need a saviour and we have come to God and asked him, Lord,
forgive me for my sins for the sake of your son. Then God does
not cast any out. We are saved and saved to the
uttermost. But have we received the fullness
of our salvation yet? No, we haven't. There's the aspects
of the fact that we have still got lots of sin clinging to us,
lots of corruption that we fight against every day. And we haven't
yet gone to heaven and been made perfect in righteousness. And
we haven't got to the last day of the resurrection and entering
into the fullness. So all of that's yet to come.
But do you know there's a very active salvation that's going
on. You and I, every single day, need to be saved. I need to be
rescued. a bit more from me. I'm the problem. All of my sins and my wrong understanding,
my wrong thinking, it's not sober like it ought to be. And I need
rescuing from that. And here's the wonderful thing.
You see, I wear this helmet of the hope of salvation. Every
single day, my God who has given me faith so that I believe, who
loves me with an infinite love. He's pouring that love upon me
by saving me every day. And everything he sends and the
word that he gives to me is at work to save me and rescue me
from me and from my corruption and from everything that I need
rescuing upon. He's saving me every single day. And it's that that then sits
there and protects me. in my thinking, where I can be
taken aside so easily, that I can be tempted to think, oh, but,
you know, maybe I need to go and do this, and I need to find
pleasure in this world, or, you know, drag me off into a wrong
understanding, and say, no, no. God's saving me. That's what's
happening. When I find hard things that
come upon me, perhaps like the Thessalonians, opposition, persecution,
I think, oh, Maybe God doesn't love me. No, God's saving me
through everything he sends to me every day. I have the hope
of salvation. We then know and we understand
why everything is happening to us. We understand and know why
is there so much hatred and murder and fraud and deceit in the world.
We know, we understand. the amazing nature of what God
is doing for us. In all this we are able to be
sober. Clear, glad, logical thinking, calm, purposeful responses to
all that happens in life. Let us, who are of the day, be
sober, having put on the breastplate of faith and love and the helmet
of hope and salvation. Why? Why do we do this? Paul
also points out here why we do this. Notice at the beginning
of verse 9, he says, for, and that word means because. Okay,
let's be sober. Because, he says, God has not
appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord
Jesus Christ. God has appointed us. God appoints
all things. God appoints all people. Here's
the one that determines where every single person will be born
and what life they will have, what time in the history of this
world they'll be born into, what country, what family, what circumstances,
what work God appoints every single person. God has appointed us, not to
wrath, but to salvation. For most people, And here's the
amazing thing, for most people, having sinned and rebelled in
Adam, and hated the truth of God, and as John 3 verse 19 says,
men loved the darkness rather than their light, because their
deeds were evil, and that was us too by nature. God has appointed
them to remain in that darkness, to receive His justice and His
judgment, and that is right and good. They loved drunkenness
and they loved darkness and they didn't want to come out of it
and God gives them over to it. God appointed them to wrath.
But. But. Wonder of wonders. Amazing grace. Even though we,
his elect, deserve just as much to be appointed to that just
and righteous judgment, God has appointed us in every part of
our life to obtain salvation. And the way that this is written
means that God is continually working this. So, as it were,
we could say it this way, For God has not appointed us to wrath,
but to the obtaining of salvation continuously. That's the idea
of the wording there. In other words, everything that
he's appointed to our life is actually already appointed and
already worked out and will already come to pass exactly as he planned
it, because it's part of the obtaining of the salvation that
he has purchased for us. We are obtaining salvation more
and more every day. So as it were, Paul's saying
that to us. People of God, you are of the
day. Do you hear this? Do you do you
understand this? This is part of the sober thinking
that we are to actually have. God has appointed you to have
everything that is needed in your life. and His word and His
grace given to you in exactly the right amount so that you
can actively, consciously, powerfully lay hold upon the salvation that
He's appointed for you every day. We don't tend to think about
that, do we? we tend to have things come along
and happen to us in life. We think, oh, this is just not
right. That's not fair. That's not good. How can this
be good to me? You know, you walk out, you know,
in the afternoon in the morning and you've got a flat tire and,
you know, it's like, this is terrible. That's not
right. You know, we have something that comes out of the blue. A
relative of ours suddenly has a stroke. How can this be right? How can this be good? But it is. God has appointed
us to the obtaining of salvation. That's what's important. And every single thing that's
happening is actually part of God giving us that salvation. And for us to lay hold upon that,
needs sober thinking. It means clear and logical thinking,
the hope of our salvation, the breastplate of faith and love
so that Satan tries to tell you this is all not right. This is
terrible. And you say, no, no, hold on. That's not right. And we stand up like a soldier
and say, no, I am going to hold on to the beautiful truth of
the gospel that God has given to me to think soberly. And then we will see and actively
use our armour. We'll be fighting like a soldier
and having a clarity of thinking and all the knowledge of the
Word of God. Now, you see, us doing that doesn't work our salvation. We don't actually manage to save
ourselves by doing these things. God's done it all. He saved us
in Christ. He chose us. He's caused His
Spirit to come to us and make us alive. He's the one that fashioned
the armour and has given it to us. But he says, I would have
you to enter more and more actively into experiencing the salvation
that I have wrought for you. People of God think soberly,
with a clearness and a clarity that comes with the truth of
my word and the truth of who I am as a loving God who's saving
you in my Son. Which is why Paul continues that
in verse 10, He's really continuing on, isn't it? We've been appointed
to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ, who died for us,
that whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with
him. We obtain that salvation through
the Lord Jesus Christ. It's his work. He has done it
all. We, as God's people, were placed
into the hands of Jesus Christ before the world was even created.
And he received all of his people to himself and he loved every
one of them. And he took it upon himself to come into this world,
to take upon himself our flesh and our blood, and then as our
representative, to not only live the perfect life of righteousness,
but to go to the cross willingly, to lay down his life for us. He took upon himself darkness
and death. the wretchedness of all the justice
due for sin. He suffered hell itself so that
we will never go there. So that we may be the children
of the day and the children of light and not of darkness. We have been saved and rescued
and delivered out of death, out of spiritual sleep and drunkenness
so that we may be truly alive in him. And that's what Galatians
2 verse 20 says, isn't it? I am crucified with Christ. Nevertheless,
I live, yet not I, but Christ lives in me. And the life which
I now live in the flesh, I live by the faith of the Son of God,
who loved me and gave himself for me. So what that means is now, whether
I continue to live on this earth physically and perhaps live until
Jesus comes again on the clouds of glory, Or, if the Lord in
his perfect timing calls me home in death, which could even be
tonight, where to be ready for the Lord's coming. I have life, perfect life, in
Jesus Christ already. And I am about the obtaining
of my salvation as God works it more and more every day. Nothing
can separate me from the love or the life of God in Jesus Christ. So God is calling us through
Paul here. He's calling us to the full exercise
and experience of that life as we think soberly with our armor
on. Be sober. Engage your heart,
your mind, your soul in this Christian life with Jesus. Really
live together with him. Yes, you will experience difficulties,
trials and the struggles. We know that every day, don't
we? We need to come at the end of every day and say, Lord, forgive
me. brought the sins, the failures, those wrongs that I've done,
but I, every day, I'm still a soldier, I still have on that armour that
God has given to me and worked for me, and that in that, having
that on, I can think soberly and I can live in Christ every
day. To what purpose? Why would Paul
have the Thessalonians to really know this and to live this in
their lives? Why would God have us to see and know these things?
Well, I trust you can see and know that already. It's not that
I'm going to say anything now that really adds to what we've
been looking at already. But just consider the contrast.
What do drunks do? Drunks in the dark, they stumble
around. They think they're having a good
time because they're drunk. And all they're doing is running
into things, hurting themselves and other people, and they achieve
nothing but damage and destruction, drunkenness, but never achieves
anything good. But alert, joyful people, full
of a certain hope, knowing what they are and who they are and
what they are doing and where they are going, they're full
of life and activity. That's the reason for Paul to
bring these things to us. He would have us to be truly
comprehending that, to lay hold upon that. No matter what our
circumstances, we have a fullness of life in Christ and no one
can take that away from us. But more than that, for us to
realize that God has picked us up out of darkness, brought us
into light. We're in that kingdom and he
set us on a pathway to glory on that narrow road that leads
to eternal life. And he fills that road with many
different things. Some of them will be very joyful.
Some of them will be hard and difficult and painful. But he
fills that road with so many different things so that we can
grow and learn of him, about ourselves, about his grace and
about his mercy. about so many different things
that open our eyes and help us to see and understand and walk
with Him. We will spend, of course, eternity
in knowing more and more about God and His greatness and all
that He's done, but right now, God purposes for us to turn away
from the blind drunkenness of the world spiritually and to
experience His life as He has always planned for us to enjoy. but then there's that further
purpose. Paul ends this section with this
encouragement, wherefore comfort yourselves together and edify
one another. Notice this, even as also ye
do. Paul, he says to the Thessalonians
here, drawing toward the end of his letter, You already do
this. I don't have to give you instructions
to actually do this because you're already doing it. And I can say
too, as a pastor of this congregation, brothers and sisters in the Lord,
you already do this too. And it's a wonderful thing. And I know that even of the things
that you've said to me, that you do already encourage one
another and edify one another. But God is never wanting us to
sort of just be mediocre. He wants us to go on and prosper
and to become better and even greater in doing what he calls
us to do here. And so Paul says, edify one another. And this word edify actually
means to build a house. So what we're doing is not just
speaking nice words to each other. But as we lay hold upon all this
beautiful truth and we understand God is working all this to the
obtaining of our salvation, I'm being saved every day, and we
encourage one another in this, we're building the house. It's
the house of the temple of God. And we have the privilege of
building that together. We build one another up in the
truth, and we participate in what God is doing in saving His
church. Of course, there's a warning
there too, isn't there? If we are half asleep, if we're
not bothering with these things, then the house tends to crack.
And the warning is found in the pages of Scripture too. Look
what happened to Israel so many times. But God is faithful, and
he continues to encourage us and gives us words such as this.
And he speaks to you tonight. As each one of us applies our
hearts and minds clearly to the word of God, and we read and
study and have a clarity of mind to see how the word applies,
as we come to love and to know our savior more and more, then
we help each other in that soberness, and the church is built. And
it's not only that we have protected heads and protected hearts in
faith and love and hope, and there's active building going
on through soberness, but there's a real joy and comfort. That's
why he says, wherefore, comfort one another. Comfort one another. Speak often, one to another,
about these things that are joys and blessings in our Savior. who has loved us with an everlasting
love, who has given us a gift that cannot be measured, cannot
be fathomed. We will be trying to fathom it
for all eternity, and he holds us in such a powerful hand that
no one can truly harm us. We've been appointed into the
obtaining of salvation, and that's what God will be doing every
day. Daily, We have the privilege of God exposing our sins, having
us come to a greater knowledge that I am forgiven in Christ's
blood, of grace sufficient for all of our needs, and a future
that grows brighter and more amazing every day in Him. What a privilege to be sober
in our armour. Amen. Let's stand to pray. Our dear Heavenly Father, Lord,
your word, it lays a hold upon our heads and our hearts in the
places where we need it the most. We thank you for these words
and we pray that you may enable us who are of the day to be sober
and laying a hold upon our saviour. Wonderful truths you've given
to us that we may walk more and more in this obtaining of our
salvation that you have appointed to us. We pray it in Christ's
name. Amen.
Being Sober in our Armour
Series I Thessalonians
- For the Lord's Coming
- To Avoid Destruction
- With Great Blessing
| Sermon ID | 1132542262131 |
| Duration | 41:10 |
| Date | |
| Category | Sunday Service |
| Bible Text | 1 Thessalonians 5:1-6 |
| Language | English |
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