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When the jailer awoke and noticed the jail doorways opened, he drew his sword and was about to kill himself, supposing that the prisoners had escaped. However Paul cried out with a loud voice, saying, “Don’t hurt your self, for we’re all right here!” And he known as for lights and rushed in, and trembling with worry he fell down earlier than Paul and Silas, and after he introduced them out, he stated, “Sirs, what should I do to be saved?”
Acts 16:27-30 (NASB)
In a e-book I used to be studying not too long ago, I used to be struck by the need of souls to “actually break by” with God. The creator, Oswald J. Smith, wrote of people who hear the Good Information and are challenged of their thoughts, however their coronary heart remains to be elsewhere. Typically they’ll have a Holy Spirit break by at a later stage, which makes a profound change of their life. Sadly, there are some in church buildings for years on the premise of their logical religion of types, and plenty of of them do fall away.
At present’s scripture tells us the story of a full breakthrough of the Holy Spirit within the lifetime of a Jailer; right here was a person who had an pressing want met by God, and he accepted it with each palms on his knees. All of us want saving as this man was; that is the life completely surrendered to God. Somebody who’s dying wants a physician, a drowning soul wants a lifeguard; these are life and dying conditions that demand heartfelt urgency. The identical is true of looking for the Saviour; it’s the most heartfelt urgency of all of them. A thoughts “accepting Jesus” or “changing into a Christian” doesn’t change the depths of a soul’s situation.
Expensive Reader, I pray that your religious welfare relies upon greater than the logic of your thoughts – realizing that His medication is nice and consuming His medication are two very various things.
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