Paul’s warning here was to the early Church…but it’s even more important today for us. Christians need to be living in the light of the Second Coming of Christ…always ready, with no time to waste…or as I Corinthians 7:29-31 says, this present age is already in the process of “passing away”. No person knows when this will take place, for His return could happen at anytime. (I Peter 4:7) For from the day that Jesus pronounced judgment on this world in His life, death, and resurrection, “the last hour” has been upon us. (I John 2:18) When Paul told the Church to “wake up” here and in Ephesians 5:14 he may have been citing a portion of an early Christian Hymn well known in the Church…”Awake, O sleeper and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.” And that’s where we find many a Believer today…in a apathetic stupor, with no regard or interest in the potentially dangerous position they’ve fallen into regarding sin.
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