Wake up! Are You a Sleeping Christian, Not Doing Much for Christ and His Kingdom?

"So then, let us not be like others, who are asleep, but let us be alert and self-controlled." (1 Thessalonians 5:6).
-The "sleep" of the text is an evil to be avoided.
-The words "so then" are employed to show that there are specific reasons for avoiding this sleep.
-Since the apostle speaks of this sleep with sorrow, it is to teach us that there are some, whom he calls "others," over whom it is our business to grieve because they sleep, are not alert, and are not self-controlled, and thus are condemned to Hell.
(www.biblebb.com - The speaker of this sermon is Tony Capoccia of Midlothian, Texas)