The Sleep of Death  –  Please Don’t Go to Sleep

Ps 13:3

3          Consider and hear me, O LORD my God: lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death;

(KJV)

1Thes 5:5-7

5          Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.

6          Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.

7          For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night.

(KJV)

Rom 13:11-12

11       And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed.

12       The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light.

High Time  –  A time past a convenient Time….but a time before it is too late.

Four Stages of –  Spiritual Sleepiness (Spiritual Encephalitus )

Drowsy     –  Apathy  –  Lethargy  –  Paralysis

1.  Drowsy  –  Heavy with sleep  half awake.  In that state – one becomes dull   –  slow of thinking  – no desire to be involved.

2.  Apathy  –  Deep state of indifference  – A lack of feeling  –  A lack of emotion  –  A lack of interest  – A listless condition.

3.  Lethargy  –  State of total indifference  – A prolonged unnatural sleep   –  abnormal drowsiness.

4.  Paralysis  –  Final state comes after  – Lethargy.  It is a helpless condition of inactivity.  A loss of power and a loss of emotion.

The Lord departed Samson while he was asleep.

Judges 4:21  –  Sisera got a nail in his head, while he was asleep.

Jonah …….got on a boat going to Joppa…….went to sleep……when God said…..Go to Nineveh.

JESUS ASKED THE QUESTION?  Why Sleep YE?

Luke 22:45-47

45       And when he rose up from prayer, and was come to his disciples, he found them sleeping for sorrow,

46       And said unto them, Why sleep ye? rise and pray, lest ye enter into temptation.

47       And while he yet spake, behold a multitude, and he that was called Judas, one of the twelve, went before them, and drew near unto Jesus to kiss him.

Song 5:2

2          I sleep, but my heart waketh: it is the voice of my beloved that knocketh, saying, Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled: for my head is filled with dew, and my locks with the drops of the night.

Song 5:5-8

5          I rose up to open to my beloved; and my hands dropped with myrrh, and my fingers with sweet smelling myrrh, upon the handles of the lock.

6          I opened to my beloved; but my beloved had withdrawn himself, and was gone: my soul failed when he spake: I sought him, but I could not find him; I called him, but he gave me no answer.

7          The watchmen that went about the city found me, they smote me, they wounded me; the keepers of the walls took away my veil from me.

8          I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if ye find my beloved, that ye tell him, that I am sick of love.

Solomon was saying…..that in the time of visitation I went to sleep…..but …..yet ….I was ….not really asleep

I was just drowsy……or I was just dozing…..taking a little nap…….

I heard a ….KNOCK…..it was ….My lover……

I finally shook myself……I came to my senses…..I got

up…….I opened the Door…..My hands dripped with

myrrh…..I know……that I heard his voice…..

BUT>>>>>Now …..He is gone…….I …..overslept

Now all…….I have……is…….Just a Smell…..Just

a Fragrance of ……What  Once was……

It cost me………My relationship with my Master

IF YOU FIND HIM……TELL HIM…….I’M SICK

TELL HIM…..I’M SORRY…..I REFUSED HIS CALL

WHAT A PRICE TO  PAY ……..ASLEEP

THE SLEEP OF DEATH

LIGHTEN MY EYES……LEST I SLEEP ….THE SLEEP OF DEATH.