Wake Up, Get Dressed (Romans 13)

Romans 13:11-14 Fulfilling the Law through Love

The unseen battles call us to wake up, get dressed, and be who we truly are.

Live Like You Are:

1) Wake up, for the time is urgent. (v. 11-12a)

Matthew 24:44 “Therefore you also must be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect.”

James 5:8 “You also, be patient. Establish your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is at hand.”

Questions Where have I become spiritually sleepy? What no longer alarms me?

2) Cast off the works of darkness! (v. 12b-13)

Ephesians 4:22 “to put off your old self, which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful desires,”

2 Corinthians 5:17 “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.”

We are with Jesus; we don’t wear sin anymore.

Question What “garment of darkness” am I still wearing?

3) Put on the Lord Jesus Christ. (v. 14)

The answer to the darkness is a Person, a new affection.

The safest place in the battle is near Jesus.

Hebrews 7:25 “Consequently, he is able to save to the uttermost those who draw near to God through him, since he always lives to make intercession for them.

Matthew 5:30 “And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. For it is better that you lose one of your members than that your whole body go into hell.”

Question Where am I making provision for the flesh in this season?