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We are considering at the present time, as most of you probably will recall,

the words that are to be found in Paul's Epistle to the

Romans in Chapter 13 from verse 11 to the end of the chapter, the last section in this 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 believed.

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 fulfil the lusts there are. We are still examining

this last and final argument which the apostle is producing in order to encourage these

Roman Christians and us to live the Christian life as he has been outlining it from the beginning of chapter

12. We see that he blends doctrinal argument with practical application, as he always

does. You can't separate these things. You can't isolate the Christian living from doctrine, and you must never isolate doctrine from living.

The two things are indissolubly burned together, and we divide them and separate them only at our great peril.

And the Apostle, therefore, here does a very typical thing.

He doesn't even keep them separate from the standpoint even of writing.

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