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1 Thessalonians 5:7-11 - Awake, Armed, and Encouraging
Verse 7 says: “For those who sleep, sleep atnight, and those who get drunk are drunk at night.” Paul is drawing aspiritual contrast. Night is the natural setting for sleep and drunkenness. Butbelievers belong to the day. Therefore verse 8 says: “But let us who are ofthe day be sober.”
ThenPaul uses a picture that he often used in his letters—that of a soldierpreparing for battle. He says we should put on: “The breastplate of faithand love, and as a helmet the hope of salvation.” Those three familiarwords appear again: Faith. Love. Hope. We saw them in the very first chapter ofthis letter: A…
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