Msg #1428 Work for the Night is Coming

What The Bible Says

Good Samaritan's Penny Pulpit by Pastor Ed Rice 

Work for the night is coming, now it is high time to awake, if any man walk in the day, he stumbleth not. It is curious that this medley of thought comes up when Jesus would head to Lazarus' side. The disciples warned, "Master, the Jews of late sought to stone thee; and goest thou thither again?" John eleven being about Christ, not Lazarus, puts focus on his death, not Lazarus' sleep. The oncoming night was coming in the ninth hour of crucifixion day. His raising Lazarus from the dead empowered his assertion that, "I am the resurrection and the life." The night represents the power of darkness. "Seeing the light of this world",is the daytime manifestation that he was indeed the Christ, the Hebrew Messiah, the Saviour of the world. "And this is the condemnation , that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light." (John 3) John eleven is the surge of light before the coming night. Then Romans 13:12 says, "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." This is the same night, but now we are on the other side of it and walking in the Day of the Lord. Don't let John Calvin's covenant theology cause confusion, there is a Day of the Lord in a premillennial second advent when he will be the Judge, but we have been living in the day of the Lord, in a new covenant relationship, for almost 2,000 years now. It is high time to work, to witness, and to watch, for the night is coming. Make no provision for the flesh, see the light of the world, and put on the Lord Jesus Christ. 

An Essay for week #28 07/13/2014

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