Neville tells his audience that this is Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, ending at sundown and marked in every synagogue that day by the singing of a psalm beginning 'Awake, O Sleeper who forgot eternity in the pursuit of the moment.' He builds the evening's teaching around this theme of spiritual awakening from forgetfulness, tying it to Paul's own transformation from expecting an external messiah to discovering that the messiah was within him all along.