Acts 27:1-44
There is, in this story, a great picture of God’s way of salvation. (a) Our human situation is hopeless: ‘All our hope of being saved was at last abandoned’(20). We are sinners. We cannot save ourselves. (b) There is hope: ‘God has granted you all those who sail with you’(25). God has provided a way of salvation: ‘God so loved the world that He gave His only Son’(John 3:16). (c) Faith believes the Word of God: ‘I have faith in God that it will be exactly as I have been told’(25) - ‘Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved’(16:31). (d) Safety: ‘all escaped to land’(44). God has ‘prepared’ for us ‘a better country’, a ‘heavenly one’, ‘a city’, ‘the city which is to come’. Do you want to ‘escape’, to be saved? Make sure that you don’t ‘neglect such a great salvation’(Hebrews 11:16; 13:14; 2:3).
Acts 28:1-31
Read of Paul’s protection from the ‘snake’. ‘Rejoice’- Christ has won for us a great victory over ‘that ancient serpent, who is called the Devil and Satan’. When God gives us His victory, we must not think too highly of ourselves - ‘he was a god’. We must give all the glory to God: ‘Now the salvation and the power and the kingdom of God and the authority of His Christ have come’(3-6; Genesis 3:14-15; Revelation 12:9-12). ‘So we came to Rome’(14) - These are words of triumph. God had fulfilled His promise: ‘you must bear witness also at Rome’(23:11). Rejoicing that ‘this salvation of God has been sent to the Gentiles’, Paul was ‘preaching the kingdom of God and teaching about the Lord Jesus Christ quite openly and unhindered’(29,31). Don’t miss God’s opportunities to share Christ’s Good News!
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Christ in all the Scriptures
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