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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But let us watch and be sober. For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night. Even in Paul’s day, drunkenness was a thing that seemed more at home in darkness than in the light. As for us, brethren, let us never be carried away by excess, — either drunkenness of body or inebriation of mind — for there is...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But let us watch and be sober. Watchfulness and sobriety are appropriate duties for the day. To be ever serving our Lord with constancy, and to keep ourselves from the fascinations of the world which make men’s minds drunk — may these two things be our daily care.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
For they that sleep, sleep in the night,.... The night is the usual season for sleep, and sleep is only for such who are in darkness, and are children of the night; and not proper to be indulged by such who are children of the day, and of the light: and they that be drunken, are drunken in the night; drunkenness is a work of darkness, and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night. People were a little more decorous in the Apostle’s day than they are now, for there are some who are drunk in the day now-a-days, and though we have certainly improved in some things, we seem to have gone back in this. But, at any rate, drunkenness may seem...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night. There are a few who have reached to such a pitch of shameless idleness that they sleep in the day, and there are others who have come to such a state of debauchery that they are drunken in the day. But this is not the common way of things, nor even in the...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
But let us, who are of the day, be sober,.... As in body, so in mind; let us cast off the works of darkness, and have no fellowship with them; since the day of grace has passed upon us, the darkness is gone, and the true light shines, let us walk as children of the light, living soberly, righteously, and godly: putting on the breastplate of faith...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
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. We are of the day, but it is a day of battle. Put on armor, therefore. Be as soldiers that are covered with a panoply. Especially take care of your heart — put on the breastplate. Faith and love are the sacred...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
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 hath 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. This seems to be a theme which the apostle...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
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. Soldiers when they sleep put off their armor; but in the day when they are awake and on their guard they wear their armor, and are ready for the fray. See how much is involved in Christian wakefulness. God help us to...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
For God hath not appointed us to wrath,.... To destruction and ruin, the effect of wrath; though there are some that are vessels of wrath, fitted for destruction, of old ordained to condemnation, and who are reserved for the day of evil; but there are others who are equally children of wrath, as deserving of the wrath of God in themselves as...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ. See there is no ordination to condemnation. Believing in Christ, we have the evidence that we are elect according to the foreknowledge of God, through sanctification of the spirit and obedience, and sprinkling of blood.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ. In making us children of light, he gave evidence that our appointment was for the light — that his eternal ordinances were that through the light of gospel grace we should enter into the light of eternal glory by and by. “God hath not appointed us to wrath,...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Who died for us,.... The elect of God, who are not appointed to wrath, but to salvation by Christ, on which account he died for them; not merely as a martyr to confirm his doctrine, or only by way of example, but as a surety, in the room and stead of his people; as a sacrifice for their sins, to make atonement for them, and save them from them; so...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him. Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do. It is a good church of which we can say this, especially if we can say it of all the members that they edify one another. Living stones in a living temple should seek to build each...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him. They who have served their day and generation, when they sleep are not parted from their Lord. They become not the children of the darkness by that fact, for he died for us, that whether we wake or sleep we should live together with him. Whether we are living here...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Wherefore comfort yourselves together,.... Either with the doctrine of the resurrection of the dead, the second coming of Christ, and the thoughts of being for ever with him, and one another, and so may be a repetition of the advice in 1 Thessalonians 4:18 or with this consideration, that they were not in a state of darkness, ignorance, and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do. And we beseech you, brethren, to know them which labour among you, and are over you in the Lord, and admonish you; and to esteem them very highly in love for their work’s sake. And be at peace among yourselves. So that these apostolic churches had a ministry set over...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do. The more of this the better. Christian people should constantly converse with one another for mutual edification.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And we beseech you, brethren,.... Not in a natural or civil, but spiritual relation; and what follows relating to the ministers of the word, the apostle addresses this church on their behalf, not in an imperious and authoritative manner, but by way of entreaty, with great humility and strong affection: know them that labour among you; who were not...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And we beseech you, brethren, to know them which labour among you, and are over you in the Lord, and admonish you; And to esteem them very highly in love for their work’s sake. Consider them in your prayers; give them all the help you can; do not be strangers to their office, and to the burden which it brings. God has set them over you. Regard...