The Word says in I Peter 5:8 to, “Be sober, be vigilant, because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour.”
Sober means to be of sound mind, to exercise self-control, to curb one’s passions. To be vigilant means to watch, to keep awake. It seems to me that we are living in a generation where it doesn’t matter what’s going on, just let me alone and let me enjoy life while I can. We want to leave everything up to the pastors, the evangelists and the teachers. Let them do all the praying and fasting; I’ve got to have fun.
But we have people behind the pulpit that aren’t sober or vigilant; they can’t control their own passions. They are fornicating and doing what feels good. That’s the reason we don’t have sin preached and taught from the pulpit anymore. Everybody wants a feel-good sermon.
But what are people gonna do when they have a crisis or sickness unto death and they don’t know how to get a hold of God our Savior? We must first report and ask the Lord to forgive you. But how can you repent if you don’t know that you have been sinning?
We need to go back to the Ten Commandments. But you say that that’s in the Old Testament. When it comes to sin, it doesn’t matter whether it’s Old or New Testament. Sin is still sin and it will take you to hell.
I Peter 4:7 says, “But the end of all things are at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer.”
When Jesus went to the Garden of Gethsemane to pray, he took Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and asked them to sit and watch with him. He went a little farther and fell on his face and prayed. He came back to them and they were asleep and he asked, “What, could ye not watch with me one hour?”
In Matthew 26:41 it says, “Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”
Matthew 13: 24, 25 says, “Another parable put he forth unto them saying, The Kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man which sowed good seed in his field:
“But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way.”
Let me say again, we must be sober and vigilant so the enemy can’t come in and sow tares in our field.
