It Is Time!
Collin Wimberly
Romans 13:11-14
INTRODUCTION: In graduate school, I took a course in Chinese philosophy. The Buddhist monk who taught the course said to me, ''As a Christian, you teach your children to pray all wrong. You teach them to pray, 'If I should die before I wake.' It would be better if you taught them to pray 'If I should wake before I die.' The monk went on to point out that most of the people he knew were half awake when they ought to be asleep. But even worse, when they were asleep, they were half awake. No one seemed to be totally alive. Nobody seemed to be turned on to what was going on around them.
Tony Campolo, ''If I Should Wake Before I Die,'' Preaching Today, Tape No. 124.
I want to borrow an outline this afternoon from Dr. Warren Wiersbe. It's about time to wake up and reach the world with the Gospel. It's time to wake up and clean up and grow up!
I) IT'S TIME TO WAKE UP - VS. 11
This is the central command of the passage - wake up!
Encyclopedia Britannia - sleep is a state of inactivity, with a loss of consciousness and a decrease in responsiveness to events taking place.
Listen, if that doesn't describe the spiritual lives of most Baptists, and even a large contingency of our own congregation - I don't know what does.
Let's go back over that definition of sleep. Someone who is spiritually asleep is
1. Inactive - that is uninvolved.
2. Unresponsive - they are unmoved. They might feel a little emotion when they hear a good sermon, shed a crocodile tear every now and then, but they are not truly moved.
3. Unconscious - they are unaware. Oblivious to the spiritual realities around them.
4. Paul says, It is high time to wake up! Why?
A) BECAUSE OF THE CHARACTER OF THIS AGE - The Greek word here views time not in the sense of the clock on the wall, but as a period, an era, or an age. To know the time we live in is to understand the character of the age in which we live. We currently live in a day ...
Collin Wimberly
Romans 13:11-14
INTRODUCTION: In graduate school, I took a course in Chinese philosophy. The Buddhist monk who taught the course said to me, ''As a Christian, you teach your children to pray all wrong. You teach them to pray, 'If I should die before I wake.' It would be better if you taught them to pray 'If I should wake before I die.' The monk went on to point out that most of the people he knew were half awake when they ought to be asleep. But even worse, when they were asleep, they were half awake. No one seemed to be totally alive. Nobody seemed to be turned on to what was going on around them.
Tony Campolo, ''If I Should Wake Before I Die,'' Preaching Today, Tape No. 124.
I want to borrow an outline this afternoon from Dr. Warren Wiersbe. It's about time to wake up and reach the world with the Gospel. It's time to wake up and clean up and grow up!
I) IT'S TIME TO WAKE UP - VS. 11
This is the central command of the passage - wake up!
Encyclopedia Britannia - sleep is a state of inactivity, with a loss of consciousness and a decrease in responsiveness to events taking place.
Listen, if that doesn't describe the spiritual lives of most Baptists, and even a large contingency of our own congregation - I don't know what does.
Let's go back over that definition of sleep. Someone who is spiritually asleep is
1. Inactive - that is uninvolved.
2. Unresponsive - they are unmoved. They might feel a little emotion when they hear a good sermon, shed a crocodile tear every now and then, but they are not truly moved.
3. Unconscious - they are unaware. Oblivious to the spiritual realities around them.
4. Paul says, It is high time to wake up! Why?
A) BECAUSE OF THE CHARACTER OF THIS AGE - The Greek word here views time not in the sense of the clock on the wall, but as a period, an era, or an age. To know the time we live in is to understand the character of the age in which we live. We currently live in a day ...
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