Pastor Martin Childs Jr. Dr. Min.

TEXT: ROMANS 13:11-14

TITLE: LIVING FOR GOD: WAKE UP

INTRODUCTION

A. 51ST Anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King’s assassination

B. A call for us to be, and a call for us to do…

C. Discern what God’s will is

D. Do what God’s will is

WHY?

A. Now is the time

B. Time is shorter than it was

WHAT?

A. Wake up

1. Out of sleep

2. Ephesians 5:14, “Awake, you who sleep, Arise from the dead, And Christ will give you light”

3. 1 Thessalonians 5:5, 6, “5 for you are all children of light and children of the day; we are not of the night or of darkness. 6 So then let us not fall asleep as others do, but let us keep awake and be sober”

B. Dress right

1. Take off the dirty clothes

2. Put on the clean clothes

C. Walk right

1. Walk like it is day

a. Day physically

b. Day spiritually

2. Not like it is night (wild parties and drunkenness, or in sexual promiscuity and immoral living, or in quarreling and jealousy)

a. Dark physically

b. Dark spiritually

D. Live right

1. Live like a Spiritual person

2. Not like a fleshly person