Egiere = used with healing many times

Get up and walk --- healing of the paralytic Mt 9:5 egiere kai peripatei
Get up and stand -----egiere kai stethi make a stand , stand firm Lk 6:8 withered
hand .

Get up ------healing of the dead girl Mk 5:41

Get up He is calling : blind bartimaeus Mk 10:49 Egiere phonei se Mk 8:18- you

have eyes but fail to see

Get up and Measure ----Rev. 11:1 egiere kai metreson

Sleeping can sometimes be dangerous

Who likes to sleep ?

Who likes to wake up ?

Who dont like to wake up ?

Some people love to sleep, and physical sleep is great thing for our bodies. However, in our spiritual life
today, we can be asleep and going through the motions. God wants His people to live awakened. God wants
to awaken us not from rest but from ruin. He wants to awaken us not from sleep but sin. Its not about getting
out of bed; its about going back to God.

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Why do we need to wake up ? What happens when we sleep?

Stop seeing things as eyes closed

A person spiritually sleeping is someone who has stopped doing good.

"Slothfulness casts one into a deep sleep, And an idle person will suffer hunger"
(Proverbs 19:15). There are different kinds of sleep. This "deep sleep" of
slothfulness is not physical sleep. It is a lazy lifestyle in which one does not meet his
responsibilities.
Ancient cities posted watchmen on the walls to warn of
approaching danger. God appointed Ezekiel as a spiritual
watchman: "Son of man, I have made you a watchman for the
house of Israel; therefore hear a word from My mouth, and
give them warning from Me: When I say to the wicked, 'You
shall surely die,' and you give him no warning, nor speak to
warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life, that
same wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood I will
require at your hand. Yet, if you warn the wicked, and he does
not turn from his wickedness, nor from his wicked way, he
shall die in his iniquity; but you have delivered your soul.
Again, when a righteous man turns from his righteousness and
commits iniquity, and I lay a stumbling block before him, he
shall die; because you did not give him warning, he shall die in
his sin, and his righteousness which he has done shall not be
remembered; but his blood I will require at your hand.
Nevertheless if you warn the righteous man that the righteous
should not sin, and he does not sin, he shall surely live
because he took warning; also you will have delivered your
soul" (Ezekiel 3:17-21).

As Christians, we too are watchmen. We must warn the lost of

pending destruction. We must call them to repentance. Do we
run away like Jonah? Do we sleep like lazy watchdogs?

"Awake to righteousness, and do not sin; for

some do not have the knowledge of God. I
speak this to your shame" (1 Corinthians
15:34).
"Awake, you who sleep,
Arise from the dead,
And Christ will give you light."

Ephesians 5:14-18

This says to Christians: Once you let Christ wake you out of sin, you must not
fall back into the slumber of that old way of life. Once you get your wake-up
call, don't hit the snooze button. Christians need to be warned, admonished, and
sometimes awakened from their nap. More specifically . . .

Now sleep is more than darkness. Darkness is included in it. To him who is asleep the
external world is dark. But what is there besides implied in sleep? The man who is asleep
has his senses sealed; not his sight merely, but his other senses. External objects are to him
as though they were not. So to the sleeping soul, all that lies beyond this life and its
interests, is veiled from view. It might as well not be. But while the senses of the sleeper arc
suspended, his imagination is awake and active. The more insensible he is of that which
really surrounds him, the more prolific is his fancy in ideal objects.

This, then, is the meaning of the text, when it describes us as sunk in sleep as well as
wrapped in darkness. Not only are our eyes sealed to the truth, and to our own condition,
but we are the subjects of perpetual illusion. Darkness alone would be a mere negation; but
a darkness full of dreams and visions is a positive infliction

3. How would you describe a person who is not spiritually awake?

3 People who sleep are usually inactive. In contrast, those who sleep spiritually may be very
busybut not with spiritual matters. They may be frantically occupied with the daily anxieties
of life or seeking pleasure, prestige, or wealth. With all this activity, they show little concern for
their spiritual needs. People who are spiritually awake, though, realize that we live in the last
days, so they are as active as possible in doing Gods will.2 Pet. 3:3, 4; Luke 21:34-36.