Sermon 3 Awake, Thou That Sleepest
“Awake, thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.”
Eph. 5:14.
IN discoursing on these words, I shall, with the help of God, —
First. Describe the sleepers, to whom they are spoken:
Secondly. Enforce the exhortation, “Awake, thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead:” And,
Thirdly. Explain the promise made to such as do awake and arise: “Christ shall give thee light.”
My brethren, it is high time for us to awake out of sleep before the “great trumpet of the Lord be blown,” and our land become a field of blood. O may we speedily see the things that make for our peace, before they are hid from our eyes! “Turn Thou us, O good Lord, and let Thine anger cease from us. O Lord, look down from heaven, behold and visit this vine;” and cause us to know “the time of our visitation.” “Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of Thy name! O deliver us, and be merciful to our sins, for Thy name’s sake! And so we will not go back from Thee. O let us live, and we shall call upon Thy name. Turn us again, O Lord God of Hosts! Show the light of Thy countenance, and we shall be whole.”
“Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we can ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us, unto him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages; world without end. —Amen!”
