2 For you yourselves are fully aware that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night. 3 While people are saying, “There is peace and security,” then sudden destruction will come upon them as labor pains come upon a pregnant woman, and they will not escape. 4 But you are not in darkness, brothers, for that day to surprise you like a thief.
Additional Verses:
Amos 5:18, Isaiah 13:6, Zephaniah 1:14-15, John 11:10, 1 John 1:6, 2:9, Galatians 5:19-21
ARE YOU A CHILD OF
1 Now concerning the times and the seasons, brothers, you have no need to have anything written to you.
5 For you are all children of light, children of the day. We are not of the night or of the darkness.
Additional Verses:
Colossians 1:13, Ephesians 5:8, John 8:12, Galatians 5:22-23
ARE YOU A CHILD OF
6 So then let us not sleep, as others do, but let us keep awake and be sober. 7 For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who get drunk, are drunk at night.
8 But since we belong to the day, let us be sober, having put on the breastplate of faith and love, and for a helmet the hope of salvation. 9 For God has not destined us for wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ, 10 who died for us so that whether we are awake or asleep we might live with him.
Additional Verses:
1 Corinthians 15:57, Romans 8:1
DO YOU HAVE PEACE IN YOUR
11 Therefore encourage one another and build one another up, just as you are doing.
ARE YOU
QUOTES:
Sin is what you do when you are not satisfied in God.
—John Piper
Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.
—Charles Spurgeon
In the New Testament, love is more of a verb than a noun. It has more to do with acting than with feeling. The call to love is not so much a call to a certain state of feeling as it is to a quality of action.
—RC Sproul