Bible Study
September 29, 2025 (CSB)
1 Thessalonians 5:6 – 11 (CSB)
“We Will Live With Him If…”
“So then, let us not sleep, like the rest, but let us stay awake and be self-controlled. 7 For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who get drunk, get drunk at night. 8 But since we belong to the day, let us be self-controlled and put on the armor of faith and love, and a helmet of the hope of salvation. 9 For God did not appoint us to wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ, 10 who died for us, so that whether we are awake or asleep, we may live together with him. 11 Therefore encourage one another and build each other up as you are already doing.”
Paul has spoken of the return of Jesus from our previous study and now he is talking to the believers. We have come from the darkness into the light from sleeping in sin and destruction to the light of a new life in Christ. As believers we are awake. Be alive, live a balanced life, living under the control of what God directs.
We are to face life with the armor (some versions ay breastplate) but we are to face the issues of life straight on without reservation knowing God has our backs. When Paul speaks of the whole armor of God in Ephesians six he mentions nothing about covering our back. Why? Because are not to run from battle but stand firm in the battle knowing God is working in the situation for us.
The wrath that Paul is referring to here is the wrath of eternal punishment being separated from God as he is talking about salvation which is eternal for the believer.
When he says “awake or asleep” this goes back tot ha analogy of 4:13 -15. It refers to being physically alive or dead one day we will live together with the One who died for our sin as our substitute.
God Bless.
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