2005 - Touchet Baptist Church, Touchet, Washington - Pastor Mike Paulson - 2005 Expounding the way of God more perfectly - Acts 18:26 - with the Scriptures Rightly Divided - II Timothy 2:15 |
Let's Learn from How Paul Presented His Own Gospel Witness... and How His Listeners Handled Him... and How He Handled Them! part VII |
25: And at
midnight Paul and Silas prayed, and sang praises unto God: and the
prisoners heard them.
26: And suddenly
there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the
prison were shaken: and immediately
all the doors were opened,
and every one's bands were loosed.
27: And the
keeper of the prison awaking out of his sleep, and seeing the prison doors
open, he drew out his sword, and would have killed himself, supposing that
the prisoners had been fled.
28: But Paul
cried with a loud voice, saying, Do thyself no harm: for we are all here.
29: Then he
called for a light, and sprang in, and came trembling, and fell
down before Paul and Silas,
30: And brought
them out, and said, Sirs, what must I do to be saved?
31: And they
said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved,
and thy house.
32: And they
spake unto him the word of the Lord, and to all that were
in his house.
33: And he
took them the same hour of the night, and washed their stripes; and was
baptized, he and all his, straightway.
34: And when
he had brought them into his house, he set meat before them, and
rejoiced, believing in God with all his house.
35: And when
it was day, the magistrates sent the serjeants, saying, Let those men
go.
36: And the
keeper of the prison told this saying to Paul, The magistrates have sent
to let you go: now therefore depart, and go in peace.
37: But Paul
said unto them, They have beaten us openly uncondemned, being Romans,
and have cast us into prison; and now do they thrust us out privily? nay
verily; but let them come themselves and fetch us out.
38: And the
serjeants told these words unto the magistrates: and they feared,
when they heard that they were Romans.
39: And they
came and besought them, and brought them out, and desired
them to depart out of the city.
40: And they
went out of the prison, and
entered into the house of Lydia: and
when they had seen the brethren, they comforted them, and departed.