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Dear Friends of "Dial Daily Bread":

It was “at midnight” in a city called Philippi, in a jail. Two servants of God, of whom He had once said, “Touch not My anointed ones, and do My prophets no harm” (Psalm 105:15), had been rudely thrust into a prison cell by the city fathers who did not understand the message of God’s grace. Paul and Silas were proclaiming that good news. You might wonder why the Lord even permitted them to be locked up with chains when He has said “Don’t touch them!” The reason: He wanted His servants to win the hearts of the jailer and his family and this was the only way to get through to them (learn the lesson: what you think are calamities, by God’s grace become avenues of special blessing!).

 

A severe earthquake (common in that land) had shaken the prison walls, sprung the doors wide open, and loosed the chains. In setting His two servants free God also set all the prisoners free (another little lesson: when God delivered His people from slavery in Egypt He also delivered the world from the slavery of sin). The jailer thought he would have to pay with his life next morning for the prisoners being freed, for what God had done for his prisoners; so he decided to kill himself. Paul said, no; the gospel hymns that he and Silas had been singing had solemnized the prisoners and now they were ready voluntarily to stay in prison until their cases could be decided, so, don’t kill yourself, says Paul (all this is in Acts 16:22-28).

 

It was pitch dark, of course. In the confusion, the jailer had someone bring in a torch, and “trembling,” asked the apostles, “What must I do to be saved?”

 

Now here’s the critical point. The two did not mislead the poor man: they told him the truth, “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved, you and your household” (vs. 31; another little point, if papa is truly converted, he will win his family!).

 

But was mental “believing” all the man had to do? If you want to be saved, is your part simply, raise your hand in the evangelist’s meeting, walk down the aisle, get baptized, and presto, you’re eternally saved? What does it mean to “believe”? If the Lord gives us a tomorrow, we’ll dig a little deeper.

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