Stay Awake, and Pray
Type of Event: Worship Service: Children & Adult
Date Recorded: October 03, 2010
Location: Ivyland New Church, PA
Topics: Worship / Prayer / Meditation, Charity / Life of Use / Service, Regeneration / Spiritual Growth
The Lord warns us about falling asleep spiritually
(Matt. 26: 41; Arcana Coelestia 5210; Apocalypse Revealed 158)
And He came to the disciples, and found them asleep, and said to Peter, What, could you not watch with Me one hour? Watch [or stay awake] and pray, that you enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak. (Matthew 26:40, 41)
"And he fell asleep" means a state of obscurity. This is clear from the meaning of "sleeping" as a state of obscurity. 'Sleep' has no other meaning than this in the spiritual sense, even as "wakefulness" means nothing else than a state of brightness; for spiritual sleep is a time when truths remain in obscurity, spiritual wakefulness when truths exist in brightness. And to the extent that truths are in the one state or else the other, spirits are awake or asleep. From this it is evident that 'falling asleep' is a state of obscurity. (Heavenly Secrets #5210)
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Lessons and text
(Matt. 26: 41; Arcana Coelestia 5210; Apocalypse Revealed 158) (AR)
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