SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 4/29/2018
8:46 PM
My Worship Time Focus: “Provision”
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Acts
16:33-34
Message of the
verses: “33 And he took them that
very hour of the night and washed their wounds, and immediately he was
baptized, he and all his household. 34 And he brought them into his house and
set food before them, and rejoiced greatly, having believed in God with his
whole household.”
The first thing that I want to do is to compare what
Lydia did right after she became a believer with what the jailer did right
after he became a believer. “15 And when
she and her household had been baptized, she urged us, saying, "If you
have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my house and stay."
And she prevailed upon us (Acts 16:15).”
“and immediately he was baptized, he and all his household. 34 And he
brought them into his house and set food before them, and rejoiced greatly,
having believed in God with his whole household (Acts 1633b-34).”
Now we will look at four evidences of the genuineness of
the jailer’s salvation along with his household. Now the first one is the washing of the
wounds that the jailer did to Paul and Silas.
Next was to agree to be baptized by Paul or Silas after the wounds were
washed, and this showed that he understood what he had done to be saved. Next we see what I first wrote about as the
jailer feed both Paul and Silas. “14 What
use is it, my brethren, if someone says he has faith but he has no works? Can
that faith save him? 15 If a brother or sister is without clothing and in need
of daily food, 16 and one of you says to them, "Go in peace, be warmed and
be filled," and yet you do not give them what is necessary for their body,
what use is that? 17 Even so faith, if it has no works, is dead, being by
itself (James 2:14-17).” The last
evidence showing the jailer and his household were saved is that he “rejoiced
greatly, having believed in God with his whole household.” It was long before this that the jailer was
ready to commit suicide, and now he becomes a believer, is baptized, feeds the
missionaries, and is rejoicing in the Lord because of what He had done for him
and his household. John MacArthur writes
“Only the grace of God could effect such an instantaneous transformation.”
Answer to yesterday’s Bible
question: “Emmaus” (Luke 24:13-15).
Today’s Bible
question: “Who was Isaac’s wife?”
Answer in our next SD.
4/29/2018 9:00 PM
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