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Eden
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Someone above said, quote:
If ever there was a time when true Christians should "watch and be sober," it is now.
I don't want to be a party-pooper, but there have been much worse times for bornagain Christians in past history than there is now for Christians in our modern time.
Eversince the Lord Jesus created the church around 30 A.D., Satan has been furious about the transfer of believers from Satan's "kingdom of darkess" and "into the kingdom of God's Dear Son."
And eversince then, there have been millions of attacks on the bornagain church of God over these last 1,970 years, and what is currently happening to the bornagain church of God IS MILD compared to what has happened to the bornagain church in the past".
To repeat what was said: quote:
If ever there was a time when true Christians should "watch and be sober," it is now.
Believe me, there were times in past church history where the watchmen had to BE MUCH MORE SOBER JUST TO SURVIVE TO THE NEXT DAY."
I agree that the church needs to "watch and be sober"; but I think it is incorrect to say that "now is the time that the church needs to watch and be more sober than ever". That part is not true and who supports that view also shows a lack of knowledge of past Christian history. quote:
If ever there was a time when true Christians should "watch and be sober," it is now.
Try reading the paperback, Foxe's Book of Martyrs" or Wil Durant's History of Civilization."
Comparatively speaking, the church of Jesus is living in a very safe and easy period in the USA and in west Europe and in South Korea, for examples.
Matthew 24:38
For as in the days of Noah that were before the flood, they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day came that Noah entered into the ark.
love, Eden
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Betty Louise
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If ever there was a time when true Christians should "watch and be sober," it is now.
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Luk 21:28 And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh.
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WildB
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by Cornelius R. Stam
"Let us, who are of the day, be sober..." (I Thes. 5:8).
Many people entertain the erroneous idea that truly spiritual Christians must always be solemn and long-faced. In fact, they suppose that such Scripture passages as the above teach this.
Nothing could be farther from the truth, for the word "sober," in our English New Testament does not mean solemn, but completely under control. This is also true of the original Greek word from which the English word "sober" is translated.
Sobriety in Scripture, as in modern English, is the opposite of drunkenness. This is brought out in the rest of the passage cited above. Along with its context, the above exhortation reads as follows:
"For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken be 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 hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,
"Who died for us that... we should live together with Him" (I Thes. 5:7-10).
Thus those who are "of the day," and know Christ as their Savior, should not "sleep" on the one hand, or "be drunken" on the other, but should be awake and alert, their faculties completely under control, so that they might witness the more effectively to the saving grace of Christ.
If ever there was a time when true Christians should "watch and be sober," it is now.
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