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( See Scofield) - (Romans 1:16).
But let us, who are of the day, be sober - Temperate, as people usually are in the daytime. Putting on the breast-plate of faith and love - T...
(3) 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. (3) We must fi...
Paul's Warning to the Christians to be Prepared for the Parousia. 1 Thessalonians 5:2 . as a thief in the night: cf. the words of Jesus ( Mat...
breastplate . Greek. thorax. See Ephesians 6:14 . faith . App-150. love . App-135. helmet . Greek. perikephalaia. See Ephesians 6:17 .
8 Having put on the breastplate. He adds this, that he may the more effectually shake us out of our stupidity, for he calls us as it were to...
DISCOURSE: 2203 WATCHFULNESS ENJOINED 1 Thessalonians 5:1-8 . Of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you. For...
DISCOURSE: 2204 THE DUTIES OF MODERATION AND WATCHFULNESS 1 Thessalonians 5:8 . Let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breast-plat...
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. Putting on the brea...
Putting on the breastplate of faith and love, &c.— The breast and head being particularly exposed in battle, and wounds in these parts being ex...
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. Faith, hope,...
The Need of Watchfulness. Final Injunctions 1. Times and seasons] St. Paul always lays stress on the uncertainty as to the time of the Advent (...
A new metaphor (cp. Ephesians 6:13-17 ; Isaiah 59:17 ), but suggested by the idea of watchfulness.
Putting on. — A curiously abrupt transition, suggested by the sober vigilance just advocated. The Christian must be careful to watch, not only beca...
Chapter 12 THE DAY OF THE LORD 1 Thessalonians 5:1-11 (R.V.) THE last verses of the fourth chapter perfect that which is lacking, on one side,...
Ready for “the Day of the Lord” 1 Thessalonians 5:1-11 To the Apostle “the day of the Lord” was near. He expected it in his lifetime, and if we...
Under the figure of a camp in which fully armed soldiers are waiting for the break of day, while those not expecting this are sleeping and drunken, t...
(4) But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief. (5) Ye are all the children of light, and the children of th...
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; sinc...
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. Ver. 8. Be sobe...
For they that sleep, sleep in the night , &c. Night is the time for sleep, and they that are guilty of drunkenness, gluttony, and other vices of...
In contrast to the new revelation Paul gives at the end of ch. 4, he now tells them in ch. 5 that "of the times and seasons" there was no need to wri...
Watchfulness and Sobriety. A. D. 51. 6 The...
The apostle here commands two spiritual duties, and the former is sobriety; which he mentioned before, 1 Thessalonians 5:6 , as a preparation for...
‘So then let us not sleep as do the rest, but let us watch and be sober, for those who sleep, sleep in the night, and those who are drunken, are drun...
CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES 1 Thessalonians 5:1 . Times and seasons. —The one is the even, continuous flow of the river, the other is the cat...
1 Thessalonians 5:1-8 I. The Apostle having disclosed much in the foregoing verses about the Lord's second coming, and the respective shares in it...
1 Thessalonians 5:8 The Work and Armour of the Children of the Day. I. First, this central injunction, into which all the moral teaching drawn fr...
1 Thessalonians 5:1-2 . But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you. For yourselves know perfectly that the d...
1 Thessalonians 5:1 . Of the times and seaso n s, ye have no need that I write to you. Paul as a prophet might have said much concerning the disp...
But of the times and seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you--Perhaps because the apostle had told them, or because the sudden comi...
But let us, who are of the day, be sober Good counsel I. The condition to be shunned. Christians must keep their natural desires and appetites...
EXPOSITION CONTENTS .—With regard to the time of that glorious advent when believers, whether dead or living, will be gathered together to Chri...
The alertness and vigilance of the Christians:
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.
1 Corinthians 13:13 ; 1 John 1:7 ; 1 John 3:1-3 ; 1 Peter 1:13 ; 1 Peter 1:3-5 ; 1 Peter 2:9 ; 1 Thessalonians 5:5 ; 2 Corinthians 6:7 ; 2 T...
The Lord's Coming 1 Thessalonians 5:1-11 INTRODUCTORY WORDS The question up for discussion is one of utmost importance. If it is true that the...
8 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.