How a jailer found salvation

Aug 28, 2016 by

by Julian Mann, TCW:

Imagine the jailer before he believed in the Lord Jesus.

He looked a bit weedy in the picture story but in real life he would have looked pretty frightening – you had to be tough to be in charge of jail in those days so he would have been a big muscly man with some mean tattoos.

He worshipped the Greek and Roman gods, many gods, made-up gods who were always fighting each other – he didn’t worship the one true God, the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who made the world and us and who is in charge of the world.

The Apostle Paul and his fellow Christian worker Silas had arrived in Philippi in Greece and they had started telling people about the Lord Jesus, the fact that everybody needs to believe in God’s one and only Son, the Lord Jesus, who died and rose again so that sinful people can be forgiven and saved by God for ever.

Because some powerful people in Philippi did not like that message, Paul and Silas were beaten up and thrown in jail, and the jailer was in charge of them. The jailer heard them praying and singing hymns to God while in jail and all the other prisoners were listening to these men who just been beaten up but were now praising God and the Lord Jesus.

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