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Learning from Acts - Salvation of the Philippian Jailer
Posted on July 10th, 2010
Acts 16:25-28 - About midnight, Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the other prisoners were listening to them. Suddenly there was such a violent earthquake that the foundations of the prison were shaken. At once all the prison doors flew open, and everybody’s chains came loose. The jailer woke up, and when he saw the prison doors open, he drew his sword and was about to kill himself because he thought the prisoners had escaped. But Paul shouted, “Don’t harm yourself! We are all here!”Paul was on his second extended missionary journey. Originally, he planned to revisit the churches in planted on his first tour and assess their progress (Acts 15:36-41). The churches back then had no means of communicating with each other regularly, and there was no centralized management or control. Each church had to learn to follow the Holy Spirit’s direction, receiving only occasional visits or letters from Apostles or other leaders.
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Joseph’s brothers: “We are honest men” - Tuesday evening 6.9.2009
Posted on June 9th, 2009
Genesis 42:10 - “No, my lord,” they answered. “Your servants have come to buy food. We are all the sons of one man. Your servants are honest men, not spies.” Joseph’s brothers come to Egypt to buy food during the famine. They claim to be honest, righteous men, despite their long history of committing murders, immorality, deception, and acts of cruelty. They show the position of sinners when they come before Christ trying to justify themselves, not recognizing their own sin and need for salvation. Joseph’s brothers were indebted to him, but they want others to treat them as honorable men - just as unbelievers want God to treat them.
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