TEXT FOR TODAY: Then he brought them out and said, “Sirs, what must I do to be saved?” Acts 16:30 WORD FOR TODAY: What must I do to be saved?” is the question the Philippian jailer asked Paul and Silas. This is a question I ask myself all the time. For oh how I want to be saved. Paul and Silas had been beaten and thrown into prison in Philippi, with their feet fastened in the stocks. In this painful condition they could not sleep, so they sang praises to God. Scripture records that at midnight, as they were praying, there was an earthquake that broke them loose from their bonds and opened the prison doors. The jailor, rushing out and seeing the doors opened, assumed that the prisoners had fled. The law demanded that a jailor who lost prisoners should be put to death, so he was about to commit suicide when Paul called out to him to do himself no harm because they were still all there. The jailor, after calling for some lights, fell down before Paul, trembling and pleading, “Sirs, what must I do to be saved?” (Acts 16:30). Paul and Silas both immediately responded as recorded in Acts 16:31, “Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved you and your house hold.” As a result of the jailor’s conversion, his entire house also believed and was saved, and he took Paul out of the jail, washed his wounds and had fellowship with him. What a story! What a conversion! How can we, today, be saved? In discussing God’s wonderful plan of salvation in Ephesians 2:8-10, the apostle Paul sums it up in three verses, “For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God not by works, so that no one can boast. For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do. ” We are saved by grace through faith. Once we accept God the giver and His gift of grace and pardon, we now become confronted with the task of living as God requires. We don’t want to do wrong, sinful things. The things we use to do, think and say, we want to do them no more. The big question right now is “Am I saved?” Our true condition stares us straight in the face:
Posted on: Thu, 30 Oct 2014 10:16:58 +0000
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