Watch and Be Sober.

1Th 5:2  For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.

1Th 5:3  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.

1Th 5:4  But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.

1Th 5:5  Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.

1Th 5:6  Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.

Satan has made sin so incredibly attractive is it any wonder at all whatsoever that there will be very few who desire Christ's return?  Every which way we turn we are blasted with sin and the results of sin. Every day we are being force fed the propaganda that sin is good, sin is no longer evil in fact, sin was never sin, and there is no such thing as sin. How many Bible reading, God fearing people no longer believe sin is really all that bad?

Listen for just a moment.   If I handed you a book and told you that in that book there would be predictions of the future, many predictions that have already come to pass and some that haven't, what would you do?  You'd take that book and read it eagerly desiring to know what was going to happen. 

We have a book that does exactly that and yet people don't want to read it, they laugh at it and refuse to see any truth in it at all. They take this book of predictions, of prophecy and pick it apart so that there are many wonderful tales in that book, but the prophetic parts they shun.

We've just spent many weeks on yet another prophecy study of the book of Daniel and Revelation and yesterday we finished that particular study. The study ended with the new world come, Christ having redeemed all who would be His, the wicked- including the father of all lies- Satan Himself being destroyed, utterly and irrevocably gone.  This is reality- predicted reality.

We KNOW that the day of the LORD will come unexpectedly for the majority of people- but we also know there will be those who will be watching, they will be sober knowing that things are far from what they seem to most.

Do we have the comprehension we need to be among those watching, to be among the sober?

Do we see through the guises Satan has placed up all around us?  We are called cruel, we are called inhumane, we are called heartless all because we seemingly dare to recognize sin. Even if we REFUSE to judge, or condemn a single person, if we dare to see their sin, to name their sin we are treated as judges and ridiculed as such. People seemingly born into a life geared to sin and only sin are called exempt because they couldn't help being born to sin. Yet we are ALL born in sin, born with sin in our flesh and no matter how that sin presents itself any and all sin are enough to end us. Is someone's sin harder than another's? It isn't for us to decide is it? What may be a devastating sin to one person, may not be a temptation to sin at all to another. Satan would have us believe those sins which would threaten to overcome us are insurmountable.  And they are insurmountable for us on our own, but with Christ nothing is impossible.

More tomorrow, by the grace and will of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ now and FOREVER!

Amen.