Bible Study
January 2, 2026
1 Thessalonians 5:6 – 10 (NKJV)
“Saty Awake”
“Therefore let us not sleep, as others do, but let us watch and be sober. 7 For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who get drunk are drunk at night. 8 But let us who are of the day be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and as a helmet 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, that whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with Him.”
Believers no longer live in darkness but in light (the light of the Gospel of Jesus Christ). We are to be alert to spiritual issues. We must be alert to indifference. We are to live balanced lives, watchful, under the control of the Holy Spirit.
Paul often spoke of the Christian life as one of a comparison to military life always being alert and prepared. The “breastplate” covers the vital organs of the body. “Faith” is the protection against temptation because we trust God’s plan for our lives.
Elsewhere the breastplate has be used to represent righteousness. Faith elsewhere has been used to represent a soldier’s shield. The “helmet” is always associated with salvation in its future aspects.
“Wrath” is the same as is referred in 1:10 it is the wrath of God’s eternal punishment, not the temporal wrath during the Tribulation period. “Those who died” goes back to the reference of sleep. Whether dead or alive we will one day be alive forever and live together, forever with the Savior who died for our sins.
God Bless.
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