Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that.
1 Thessalonians 5:4 (KJV) But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.
“But ye,” then we are told who the ye are “brethren” brethren born of the same womb. The Apostle Paul is saying brothers you are not living in darkness or in other words you have a relationship with Christ Jesus. Brethren you know what is coming because you know who Christ is. You and I live in a different time and you and I have a the guide book of life the Bible to read and learn, so you and I should know more than these in Thessalonica. Therefore we too should not be walking in “darkness” that the day of the Lord should overtake us like a thief in the night. We have got the Book and it’s plain to what’s a head. I would be the first to say I don’t know it all, I can’t comprehend it all, it is way too big for my tin cup thinking mind. Now that being written I believe what I read. The Lord Jesus Christ is coming back. We can read about that in I Thessalonians 4 starting in verse 13 and how it will take place. It really doesn’t matter where I believe it or not although I do but either way believe it or not it is going to happen. Today I’m not walking around in darkness, I know because my Bible tells what’s ahead of me. It’s great to know what is ahead. I was stationed for a time in Fairbanks Alaska and back in those days with sports you saw the games on TV a day late. In other words if the Giants played the Rams we wouldn’t see the game until the next day, but you could listen to it on the radio the same day they played. One day as we were watching a football game that had already been played, one guy spoke up and said the Giants are going to win, they are playing great. Another guy spoke up and said no the Rams are going to win. The other guy said do you want to place some money on that? The other guys who already knew the Rams had won the game yesterday said sure how much. That’s the confidence we have so therefore we are not in darkness to this future advent. No matter what you see going on today we KNOW there is a better day coming. Therefore we are not in the dark.
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