In the Word #10 — Milton Green

In the Word #10 — Milton Green

Folks, it'll get a little interesting now. We have just looked at a foolish man and we've looked at a prudent man, haven't we? Now, I want you to listen very carefully. The prudent man acts upon the Word of God, and a foolish man does not act upon the Word of God, and one who doesn't act upon the Word of God does not have a foundation.

Is that right? He's foolish. And the powers of darkness bring him down. He can't stand. Now, I believe that in the last days there were ten virgins. Five of them were prudent and five of them were foolish.

Does that have a familiar ring to it? Let's turn to Matthew 25. Do you know you're to expose the deeds of darkness? Is that what your Bible says? As your Bible say, to expose the deeds of darkness, doesn't it?

Expose them. And I'll tell you what, when you're to expose the deeds of darkness, you'll hurt somebody's carton. In Matthew 25, verse 1... Oh, I just want to praise the Lord. I'm so thankful. Praise your name, Lord.

In Matthew 25, verse 1, then the kingdom of heaven will be compared to ten virgins. Here it is. Who took their lamps. What is a lamp? The Word. The Word. The Word is a lamp unto your feet and a light unto your path.

Look at me just a second. Please look at me just a second. The lamp is a lamp unto your feet and a light unto your path so you'll know how the Word walk. If you do not have the lamp, you do not know the way.

Your lamps need to be lit. Okay. So, these ten virgins, he took their lamps and they went out to meet the bridegroom. And five of them were what? Oh, foolish. We just read about some foolish folks, didn't we?

And five of them were what? Wise or prudent. Now, let's see what happens to them. Can you very easily say that probably this prudent one acted on the Word of God? And you probably could say the foolish, didn't you?

Because that's what foolish prophets and foolish people who have depraved minds do not act upon the Word of God. For when the what? They're the foolish. Mark it. Now, mark these as we go. Verse 3, When the foolish took their lamps, they took no oil.

It doesn't look like they had the Spirit, does it? They took no Spirit, no oil with them. But the prudent had the oil, didn't they? They took the oil. The prudent had the Spirit. And flasked along with their lamps.

The Ten Virgins and the Coming Darkness

Now, while the bridegroom was to lay him, they all withdrew as he began to sleep. And at midnight... Now, let me tell you something about midnight. Jesus is going to come in a time of tremendous darkness.

Now, let me just go ahead and tell you. He's not only going to come like a thief. He's coming as a thief. He's first coming for destruction. How's your fear of God getting? Is it kind of picking up a little bit?

You think a little better to fear God than fear the devil? At midnight is the most dark part of the night. Is that correct? At midnight is a time of spiritual darkness. And that is what this is talking about right here in verse 6.

But at midnight there was a shout, Behold the bridegroom. Come out to meet him. Then all those virgins rose and trimmed their lamps. Now, watch what happened to Nate. And the foolish, who does not act on the Word of God, said to the prudent, the wise, who do act upon the Word, Give us some of your oil.

We want the Spirit. For our lamps are going out. We don't see what you see. Now, I don't want to run that place. I want to give you a second to look in there and see if the Spirit of God shows you the same thing.

But the prudent, the wise, answered, saying, No, there will not be enough for us and you two. Go instead to the dealers and buy some for yourselves. And while they were going away to make the purchase, the bridegroom came.

And those who were what? They're ready. They went in with him to the what? The wedding feast. And what was shut? There it was. The door was shut. Look at me. In the days of Noah, the Lord came for destruction because all their thoughts were evil.

And what He did? He moved the righteous into the ark, which is a type of Jesus. Are you hearing me? And who shut the door? God shut the door. And many came to knock on the door, but the door did not open for them, did it?

And they were all destroyed, wasn't they, in the flood? Is that correct? Isn't that interesting? The righteous, the wicked were destroyed and the righteous who were in the ark, which is a type of Jesus, were saved from the flood.

Is that correct? Okay. So, they went in. The bridegroom came. And those that went ready, they went into the wedding feast and the door was shut. And later, the other virgins, that's a foolish, also came saying, Lord, Lord, open up for us.

They were trying to get in the door. Who's the door? But He answered and said to them, Truly I say to you, I do not know you. Is that what you just kind of read back over in Matthew 7? Huh? Many will say, Lord, Lord.

They don't walk in covenant of the Lord. They don't even bear any fruit for the Lord. They don't have the foundation of the Word. They're walking somewhere else. They got another gospel, another Jesus, traditions.

Their hearts are not going to Calvary, folks. They're not going to die. Well, I want you to hold your hand right there just a minute. Now, is that pretty plain about foolish and prudent? You know, isn't it real interesting that we're right there so close?

Noah, Judgment, and the Coming of the Son of Man

You know, I'm going to do something right here. Just back up in verse, chapter 24, just a little bit. And let's look in verse 37. We're pretty close here. For the coming of the Son of Man, who is He? Jesus.

I'm glad you're talking to me. This really helps me. I know you're here. For the coming of Son of Man is going to be, what's those two words right here? Just like the what? Oh, the days of Noah. It's going to be just like the days of Noah.

For in those days which were before the flood, it's going to be the same way. When Jesus comes today, they were just eating and drinking. They were marrying and giving Him marriage until the day what?

Noah in the ark. What's the type of us entering into the ark? In Jesus Christ. And then, now get ready with your big pencil. Verse 39. And they, what is that three words there? They didn't understand.

It seemed like some folks was in darkness. Some folks in darkness. They might have been never learned and never able to come to knowledge of truth. They did not have understanding. And Romans 1 says it is a depraved mind.

It doesn't understand. And they did not understand until the what? Oh, it's going to be another flood in the last days. Wonder what that flood is. Oh, they didn't understand until the what came? Flood came and what?

Took them all away. The flood's going to come and take them all away. Which direction are they being snatched? Up or down? You know who the flood is, don't you? The ones who didn't understand. The flood had already come.

The door is shut. And they are, took them all away. So shall the coming of the Son of Man be. We're just going to look at a little less. I hope we can get back. Well, we're just going to try tomorrow.

Just come back and really pursue this. Now, verse 40. Then there will be two men in a field. One will be what? All taken. What did we read is going to take him? Jesus? The flood is going to take him. Now, I'm getting some of those looks at me.

Read your Bible so we can go on. There'll be two men in a field. One will be what? Taken and one will be left. Two women will be grinding at the mill. They might be making their own bread. What's women to type up?

Church. You see them making their own bread. Nameless and last days and all this. They'll be grinding at the mill. One will be what? Taken and one will be left. Now, you are told and warned right here.

Therefore, be on the what? Alert people are not asleep. Is that right? The opposite from being asleep is being alert. Have you circled alert? Therefore, be on alert. For you do not know which day your Lord is coming.

But be sure of this. If the head of the house had known at what time of the what? Now, night is a time of darkness. That the who was coming? Thief. And later on, I'm going to tie this together for you.

And you'll see how Jesus comes and becomes a thief. And you see how he comes as an enemy. Because everything, no power of darkness, including Satan, does anything out from the will of God. Now, if you don't have, if your head doesn't understand all that, it's not supposed to.

You're just going to have to wait till we get it out of here. Okay. He didn't know what time of the night. This is a time of darkness that the thief come. Now, what did the thief come to do? Kill, steal, and destroy.

The thief is one that brings a flood. Is that correct? Okay. He didn't know at what time of night the thief was coming. He would have been on the what? Alert. That's what you warned over in 1 Peter 5a.

You would have been alert. You'd been awake. And you would not have allowed his what? Look here. Wouldn't allow this house to be broken into. Now, I'm not going to pursue any more of that. Just about all we can handle right now.

Fear of God, Spiritual Deception, and the Narrow Door

Folks, look at me just a second. I'll just honestly tell you something. The powers of darkness have really perverted a lot of things. And I'm going to tell you something. Don't resist the fear of God.

If there's any fear you've ever had of anything else, I direct you to God Almighty. Who is a God of judgment. And see, we've seen this sugar daddy Jesus. And we're going to be looking at a whole lot of this judgment and everything.

And I want to tell you something. You'll be taking a lot better notes. You'll be a lot more interested in what God says than folks. Because you're going to learn that when your heart is turned toward the Lord Jesus Christ.

He will lead you in all truth. Now, that's all I'll go with that. Now, let's just turn over to Luke 13, please. Luke 13. Luke 13. Begin reading with me in verse 23. And someone said to him, Lord, are there just a few who are being saved?

The Amplified calls that rescued. And he said to them, strive to enter by the what door? Honey, you better get in that narrow door. We just read about it in Matthew 7. Strive to enter by the narrow door.

For many, I tell you, will seek to enter this narrow door. And they'll not be able. 25. Once the head of the house gets up and he shuts the door. Did he shut the door back in the days of Noah? And you begin to stand where?

You're outside. You're outside just like they were outside the ark. And then you begin knocking on the door. Look at me. How do you knock on the door? You knock on the door when you pray. Who is the door?

You're praying, Jesus, let me in. Let me in. See, you remember the Scripture in Matthew? You have to keep knocking and knocking and knocking. But these are going to be knocking. Let me in. Jesus, the door, let me in.

See, he is the ark. You know, there was another ark that's called hauled on. Now, I want you to listen to me. We'll read that next chapter in a minute. There was an ark that's supposed to be carried on sanctified shoulders.

Is that correct? And they made, what's that ark a type of? What is in the ark? The tablet, the word, the rod, which is authority. All of this is Jesus, a type of Jesus. And they made a cart for it. That's a beautiful new cart, Joshua 3.

And they got the cart going. The man stepped out there to touch it, and they killed him. And what he said in Joshua 3? The ark is coming your way. Don't touch it. This ark you'll not put on a cart. You'll not put Jesus in the gospel on a bunch of carts.

A lot of carts carrying Jesus today in the gospel. A lot of carts. No, you'll put it on sanctified shoulders. How beautiful are the feet of those who carry the gospel of Christ. And you notice that when they put that ark on these sanctified shoulders, as soon as a priest, which is a type of us, soles of their feet got into the water.

What's the water? Powers of darkness. It floods over, and it's seasoned, isn't it? That's them. And when they're stuck in the waters, the waters parted. Who are the waters? That's them. That's the flood.

And these are priests. And all Israel passed through. That's the people of God. So you begin knocking on the door. Jesus, pray and let me in, Lord. You're standing outside saying, Lord, open to us. We're in 25.

Then he'll answer and say to you, I do not know where you're from. You're not of my house. I don't know you. I know my sheep. And then you'll begin to say, now, Lord, you know, we've been listening to your word, and we've been doing all these things, and you've just, we ate and we drank your word right here, and you've been in our presence, and you've talked in our streets for 40 years.

And he'll say there, 27, he'll say, I tell you, I do not know where you're from. Depart from me, all you evildoers, the wrong fruit. Romans 13, please. Let me ask you something. Do you think any sleeping people today?

Do you think any people not sober, serious, and on the alert? That's what you're warned to be. You have to be alert to take every thought captive to the obedience of Jesus. God didn't say that you had to take every thought captive if you couldn't do it, did he?

Did he come, put it in his Bible for you to grade it and analyze it and vote on it? Are you going to condemn God or get in on him? Romans 13, verse 11,. And this do, knowing the time, it's already the hour for you to what?

Wake up, you sleepers, and that's what we read earlier. Awaken from sleep. Didn't I read to you Matthew 13? Look here. Their eyes are closed. They can't hear. They can't see. And then when we read Matthew 13, it was a parable of the Word of God.

They can't hear and they can't see. You saw it over in 2 Timothy 3. They have a form of godliness. Doesn't avoid such men as these. They're ever learning, never able to come to knowledge of truth. They oppose the truth.

Awakening from Sleep and Putting on the Armor of Light

Awaken from sleep. Now salvation is nearer to us than when we believed. The night, the time of darkness is almost gone. And the day is at hand. Let us therefore lay aside the deeds of darkness. Do you understand what the deeds of darkness are?

The deeds of darkness is the lust of the flesh. Lay them aside. And what's those two words? Put on. What did we read earlier? We put on the what? Look at me, folks. Now I want you to, I want you and your Bible to mark that armor of light.

That armor right there are the weapons of Jesus. When you exchange your girdle and you exchange your weapons, how are you going to stand against the enemy that's many a mind more powerful and stronger than you are if you don't have the weapons of your covenant of pardon?

You don't get his weapons if you're not in covenant. You just got a foolish foundation. But does it say, awaken from sleep and get on that armor of light? Oh, that armor of light's getting a lot more important than it used to be since we found out there's a devil on it.

Huh? And he's just killing you and destroying you, causing you to drift and drift and drift and drift further away and away from the Word. And then pretty soon things are called church aren't church. Things that's called Christians aren't Christians.

Things that's called the gospel is not the gospel. Things that's called Jesus is not Jesus. Things that's called, and just leave out holiness, keep out repentance, raise out a form of living in Godliness, righteousness.

Leave out overcoming the world, the flesh, and the devil. Leave it out. Leave out discernment. There's nothing left to discern. Sleep. Sleep away, sleeper. You better wake up and put on the armor of light.

God still sits on the throne of grace right this moment. 13. Let us behave properly as if... Praise God forevermore. Let us behave properly as in the day and not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual promiscuity, in sensuality.

These things are the deeds of darkness. Not in strife. Those are the deeds of darkness. Not in jealousy. Those are the deeds of darkness. But put on the Lord Jesus Christ. There it is, the armor of light.

And you make no provision for the flesh in regards to its lust. Now, that's what God says. You want some more literature? You want some smart words? Hmm? He said, make no provision for the flesh in regards to its lust.

The Full Armor of God and Spiritual Warfare

Now, let's look at putting on that armor of light, which all of a sudden kind of seems kind of important and turn to Ephesians 6. Boy, I sure am against the local church. Where did that come from? Against pastors.

My goodness. Praise God for the church. Praise God for the church. Praise God for shepherds. Shepherd's heart. Verse 11. Verse 11. Put on the what? Full armor of God that you may be able to stand firm against the what?

Now, all of a sudden, do you think it's very important to be able to stand firm against the schemes of the Satan so that you will not be what? Deceived? See, you can be deceived and believe a lie and spend an eternity in hell separated from all hope, separated from all love because you chose in your heart to believe in a wrong gospel and follow after another Jesus.

Is that plain? What do you think the schemes of Satan does? He say put on the full armor. He didn't say pick and choose, did he? When you put this on, you put on Jesus. That's the way you put Him on. Now, verse 12.

Now, here's who you're warring against. And can you imagine a warring against this kind of an enemy is killing, stealing, destroying and putting you in a permanent, eternal hell and that's what's asleep that you can ignore this kind of a Scripture that we're reading right here in the next thing.

Ignore the devil and let yourself be intimidated or made fearful. But for our struggle is not against flesh and blood. I want you to remember that your struggle is not against the folks down the street but it's against the rulers.

It's against the powers. It's against the world forces of darkness. It's an unseen world. It's against you folks. It's against the spiritual forces in the wickedness in the heavenly places. How in the name of God can you stand without the weapons and armor of God?

Where did that come from? I tell you, my friend, greater is He that's in you than He that's in the world if He's in you and working through you. But He's not going to be in you unless you put Him on and you're not going to put Him on unless you come His way.

Verse 13, Therefore, since you've got this kind of war against you, it says, take up the full armor of God. Take it all on. Is that what your Bible says? That you may be able to ignore, that you may be able to resist an evil day and having done everything to stand firm.

Now, are you told right here to take up the armor of God and resist the schemes of the devil? Now, folks, if you wasn't willing to sit there and hear about demons, see, I wouldn't be able to relate and talk about that part of the gospel, could I?

And then if you were offended in one of these things, you know, they rise up and they kick in there and things like that, you know, that's them. And they got there through your traditions and lies and religious spirits and letting your heart go to other things besides the gospel, besides the Word and Jesus.

That's how they get there. They're inside of you right now. Many, many, many, many, many of you. See, but that's not the big deal to be fearful about that. Those who've been there all the time, you just now found out about it.

Now, who you fear is God. It's abomination of God to fear the power of the darkness. Of course, if you choose to fear them, you'll never be free from them. You'll never, never, never, never, ever be free from fearing them, fearing them.

Perfect love casts out all fear. God didn't give you a spirit of fear. A spirit of fear comes the devil. When you fear things, he's giving you power, love, and a sound mind. Now, you got to agree with the Word.

Don't agree with the devil. Okay. So, you take up the full armor, God, you may be able to resist in that evil day and having done everything to stand firm. Verse 14, stand firm. Here comes your weapons.

Having gird your loins with a what? Now, first comes truth. And where's the truth come from? The Lord. It comes from the Lord. It comes from the Word of God. Now, he said, I'll lead you in all truth. Is that right?

So, if your heart is fixed on Jesus, now, if your heart is fixed on some middleman, you've got some idols in your heart. Get rid of the middleman. That's not meaning that you're not subject to spiritual authority.

But I'm telling you what, I'm not subject to angels of light. And I'll not be subject to anyone who disguise themselves as servants of righteousness. Now, you can know the difference because God has shown you the difference.

Now, first you put on truth. That's how you put on the first thing you do to put on Jesus. The next thing, you put on the breastplate of what? You put on righteousness so your heart is set on what? Walking right in God's eyes.

Amen? You're walking right before God. You're before God. That's what Abraham walked inside of God. This is what you do. This is your walk. That is righteous. Your heart is set on pleasing God. But the next weapon that you put on, do it to put on the Lord Jesus Christ.

Verse 15, First, you have the gospel. Amen? Now, there you've had truth, righteousness, and the gospel. Can't tell me any other way to have Jesus without having those. I mean, put them on. I mean, you've got them.

This is how you put on Jesus. In verse 16, in addition to all taking up the what? The shield of what? I mean, you're... Look at me, folks. Look here. Now, I'm not going to stand on that Bible. I want you to take just an example.

I'm standing near the Bible, and I'm saying, this is where I'm standing on the Word of God. Now, I want you to know there's a lot of other foundations. Let's just say numbers. If I'm more interested in numbers, then I'll do the things the enemy does and tell me so I can have numbers.

I'll promote, scheme, and then it'll make me look good, make my church look good. But while I'm built, my heart's set on number foundation. What about this foundation of righteousness over here? Because I'm letting the things of righteousness go so I won't split my church.

Because I've been deceived into thinking numbers. Hey, we're going to see where all this foundation of numbers comes from Satan. Tomorrow. Why not? When you better ignore them. What do you think the powers of darkness do when smart folks ignore them?

When you're wise in your own eyes, I'm wise in my own eyes. I was wise in my own eyes at one time. What do you think? I was a fool. Wisdom only comes from one place, Jesus. He becomes our wisdom. Don't you remember?

All mankind is stupid and void of knowledge. That sets you free, doesn't it? Okay. Now, let's continue. We have got truth. We've got righteousness. We have put on the gospel. And now we have this faith.

Why do we have this shield of faith? That means we're standing and believing the Word of God and let God be true and everything else be a lie? Because we're going to be able with this faith in the Word to extinguish all these flaming missiles of the evil one.

And there is a schemes that the devil continually tries to take to talk to you. Those flaming missiles come to you and you say, God didn't say that. I refuse that. I refuse that. I'll not listen to that.

My covenant with Him. I'll not walk that way, Satan. I'm not coming out. I sure not coming out. I'm in and ain't coming out. I won't receive it in Jesus' name. Now, by the way, the evil one is those demons.

That's them, not ego. Now, verse 17. And take the helmet of salvation. There is the salvation. Now, are you seeing that's a simple thing? All these things are Jesus. You take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, you have the Word of God, which it is a sword.

And that is your weapon. Amen? Okay. Now, we remember those missiles that we read in James. If you care to write it out there, the faith to extinguish these flaming missiles, we read about that in James 1, James 1, 14.

We saw that you are tempted and enticed. How are you tempted? It's not the God in heaven who attempts you, you know, in 13? Then the next verse, no, it's not. It's the one who comes to tempt you and entice you after the lust of flesh.

Now, that is the flaming missiles that come. Amen? That is the temptation. That's what it's come from. You'll be an evil doer if you listen to the devil. Is that right? Okay. You remember when we received these missiles?

Well, then lust is conceived. Is that right? The lust of the flesh is conceived when you listen to the schemes of the Satan without resisting them. And when you resist them, he has to flee. And we also say that we make our bodies, now here it comes, we make our bodies a living sacrifice.

Faith, Temptation, and Taking Every Thought Captive

And we know in Romans 12, and we also know in Romans 10, that our weapons are not of the flesh anymore. We don't war at the flesh anymore. We're in the spiritual realm. These are our new weapons right here.

And they're divinely powerful to turn down these fortresses and this deceit and lies and everything else that's been put in our computer. We're washed. And then we take every thought captive, every argument that comes from any man, from any thought, from any doctrine, or anything as we take every thought captive to the obedience of the Word of God, Jesus, because that is our foundation.

Is that correct? We're also told. Now, I don't think we're going to have to turn back there. Can you remember all right in 1 Peter 5, 8, and 9, this is so important, that the brethren are told to be sober and alert.

Is that what we read? Now, we're fixing to get into something. I want you to listen very carefully to what I'm saying. They're told to be sober and alert because brethren put up the shield of faith to resist these lines.

The devil, who's looking for somebody to desire, and we resist him, firm in our faith, and we suffer. And that's being accomplished by all the brethren that's in the world. The brethren in the world suffer.

Is that right? Because they're doing that when you resist the faith, in faith, the shield of faith, against all these darts that want to stir up the lust of the flesh. You suffer in the flesh. Is that right?

Did we read that? Okay. Now, you got your big pencil ready? Turn to 1 Thessalonians, please. 1 Thessalonians. 1 Thessalonians, chapter 5. All the T's are together. Timothy, Titus, and Thessalonians. If you get any of them, you're close.

The Day of the Lord and the Sons of Light

Okay. 1 Thessalonians 5. Oh, my. Praise you, Lord Jesus. Verse 1. Now, as to the times and epochs, who we're talking to there? Brethren. Will you please circle brethren? It's very important. Make you a good circle around brethren.

We're talking to brethren. Brethren, you don't have any need for anything to be written to you. You know why? Because brethren already know a lot of things. Brethren's already told a lot of things. Because we're going to see there in the next verse.

For you, please circle you. Draw your line from brethren to you. Because you brethren's who we're talking to. Are we talking to the brethren? Let me ask you over here. Are we talking to the brethren? And you brethren yourselves know.

Now, I want you to circle no. Does the brethren know? It says the brethren know. Either you know or you don't know. Brethren know. Is that what your Bible says? All right. You know full well that the day of the Lord is going to come just like a what?

A thief. And it's going to be as if the thief is coming in a time of darkness. You see that? Now, mark the thief in the night. Now, brethren know what I'm fixing to say. Now, here we go. Verse 3. Now, I don't want you to get ahead of me.

You're going to miss a bunch if you want to read that next chapter. Now, verse 3. While they are saying what? Oh, we've been reading a bunch of folks all the time saying peace, peace, safety. See, I don't ever resist a devil.

When you don't resist a devil, you're not resisting the flesh. Do you understand that? And while they're saying peace and safety. Now, let's circle they and peace and safety. So, we're going to talk about they in this verse that say peace and safety.

The ones that say peace and safety. Then, what comes? Destruction is going to come upon who? Them. Circle them. Draw a line to the them who say peace and safety. Is that right? The day of the Lord is going to come just like a thief in the night.

And destruction is going to come upon them who say peace, safety. Amen. And it's going to come upon them suddenly like what? Birth pangs upon a woman with child and they shall not escape. Now, look at me.

I need to explain something to you. Everybody look here just a minute. Now, there is groans and groaning of childbirth as you're dying to the flesh. Amen. But I want you to know. And I don't know how much I'm going to get to pursue that tomorrow.

But there is a birth pangs of destruction that's going to come upon this world as Jesus comes as a thief in the blood. And the people are going to look at one another in astonishment because of the pain and torment and the judgment of God that is upon them.

Now, that's the birth pangs this is talking about. Don't make it say something it's not saying. Now, I could jump to that and I could get into Scripture to show you just exactly what I'm saying. But I'm going to have to build up.

Let's go ahead and say the ones that peace and safety, destruction is going to come upon them. You hear me? You know what was in this man that was sitting down here yesterday when I saw him out door? Demons of pain.

He doesn't have any pain anymore. Now, verse 4. But the brethren know this. The brethren is going to know all these things. Is that correct? And the brethren are going to have labels like Jim Jones. The brethren have these labels because the stage is already set because it's going to be so far.

It's going to be so off the wall to the flesh. But you brethren are not in what? Now, the brethren are not in darkness which means the ones who say in peace and safety are in what? They are in darkness and destruction is on them.

You're not in darkness that the day should what? It's not going to overtake you like a thief. You're not going to be surprised and you're not going to be astonished for you are all what? Brethren are sons of light and sons of day and we're not of what?

Night or of darkness. There's a difference. So then in verse 6. So then let us not sleep. The ones saying peace and safety are asleep must be what? Awake and serious like the word of God warned us. And you have on the armor of God.

You have the weapons of Jesus. You put on the armor of life. It says it over and over and over and over and over. This is the gospel. And you'll go to the cross. You will go to the cross. You will not go no other way except the cross.

Verse 7. Don't sleep as others do but be alert and sober. And then verse 7. For those who sleep do their sleeping at night. They're in darkness. They sleep in darkness. People in darkness are asleep. They don't know it.

Their eyes are closed. They can't hear. They can't see. Ever learning. Never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. But those who sleep do their sleeping at night. And here's the next part. Those who get what?

Get drunk. Get drunk in what? Look at me. Let me show you. The drunk person receives another Jesus. He receives another gospel. And he stumbles. He stumbles. He staggers in drunkness because he cannot find the way.

Because he has received the wrong gospel. And he's following the wrong Jesus. Verse 8. Since we are the what? Day. Let us be serious. Sober. Having put on. There we go back to Ephesians 6 again. I tell you, you're going to spend a little more time in Ephesians 6, aren't you?