41. Spiritual Alertness
Mark 14:38; Rom. 13:12-16; 1 Thess. 5:2-6; 1 Tim. 6:11-12
Leader reads the plain lines; the congregation reads the bold lines.
Watch ye and pray, lest ye enter into temptation. The spirit truly is ready, but the flesh is weak.
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.
But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.
For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.
But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.
Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.
Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, whereunto thou art also called, and hast professed a good profession before many witnesses.