We are still considering the great words that I'm going to read to you out of Paul's

epistle to the Romans in chapter 13, reading 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 heaven. 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 envy. But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ,

and make not provision for the flesh to fulfill the lusts thereof.

I describe this as a great statement. It is, historically, and from every other standpoint.

One of these great moving passages that you find so freely scattered about in the epistles of this great and

mighty apostle Paul.

Now what he's doing is, of course, is to give us the final and the ultimate great motive

for Christian living.

Paul never stops at doctrine, doctrine and practice to him inexplicably mixed up together.

And so, having laid down his grid doctrine, in the first 11 chapters of this epistle, he now

comes to his practical application.

And here is the final argument.

He's told us how we are to live, and now he gives us reasons for doing so.

Now, we've been seeing that he starts by saying knowing. He assumes we know certain things,

and the things we've already considered that he reminds us of are these. We know the time,

and that knowing the time, how tremendously important

it is, that we should have a right view of the time in which we are living. I don't mean

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