Most of you, I'm sure, will remember that we are engaged at the moment in studying the

words that are to be found in Paul's Epistle to the Romans in chapter 13 and from

the beginning of verse 11 to the end of the chapter, verses 11 to 14 of the 13th chapter of Paul's Epistle to the Romans, 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 hand.

Let us therefore cast off 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. We began a consideration of this famous subsection in this 13th chapter

of this epistle to the Romans when we last met together on the 17th of March. Now, on that

occasion, we just looked at it in general. I believe I said that we were savoring it.

It's a bad thing to bolt your food in a physical sense. It's very much worse to do so in a spiritual

sense. And people who can take a whole chapter at a time seem to me to be guilty of bolting their food. It's good in the physical

sense to masticate your food. You will get the full flavor of it if you do so, and it'll do you

more good. The same applies in the study of the scripture. So we took a general glance at this great statement, forever,

of course, associated with the name of the great St. Augustine, the words that were used

to bring him into the liberty of the gospel and to change his life completely. Words that have often since then been

used likewise in the case of others. Now, what have we got here? Well, what we have here, of course,

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