we are still dealing, most of you will recall, with the great words that are to be found

in Paul's epistle to the Romans, chapter 13, from verse 11 to the end of the chapter.

And that knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep,

for now is our salvation nearer than when we believe. The night is far spent, the day is at

end. Let us therefore cast out the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light.

Let us walk honestly as in the day, not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness,

not in strife and envying, but put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision

for the flesh to fulfill the lusts thereof.

I trust that nobody misunderstood my announcement just now as meaning that we are finishing

this series tonight.

I referred to what would happen when we resumed in October, merely in connection with

that book.

We hope to go on next Friday and the following Friday.

We go on to the last Friday in this month of May, and we are

considering this great statement here at the end of this 13th chapter, where we have seen

that the Apostle abuses what is in many ways the final and the ultimate argument which we as Christians should apply to ourselves

in order to persuade ourselves to live the Christian life as it should be lived.

In other words, to pay heed to the exaltation that he has been addressing to us from the beginning of chapter 12.

He has put a number of things before us, and they're

all based on the fact that we know certain things, and that knowing, what do we know?

Well, we know the time. We understand the time in which we're living. We also understand

the nature of life in this world, as it is as the result of sin.

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