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Nothing should imprison the child of God.
Do you feel like you are in prison today?
Are you not sensing that breakthrough that God has promised?
Background - Second Missionary journey, Macedonian call, Philippi, the slave girl with spirit of divination.
What is true freedom that the Lord Jesus talks about?
Paul and Silas were thrown to jail but they were not the real prisoners in that jail.
True freedom does not depend on circumstances.
It was easy for Paul and Silas to complain and rightfully so:
to people (tell of their negative plight to the prisoners, they were listening, misery loves company)
to authorities (injustice, they were Roman citizens)
to God (we are doing your work Lord!
You redirected us from going to Asia to go to Europe, then this is what we get?)
Paul and Silas were in pain.
When you’re in pain, the midnight hour is not the best time to be doing praise and worship.
“Songs in the night come only from God; they are not in the power of men.” - Charles H. Spurgeon
2. True Freedom is not about self.
One thing about grace, it is about the welfare of others and not ourselves.
We have received grace and we are to give grace.
Grace and forgiveness come together.
They harbored nothing against the jailer.
Paul also cared about the other prisoners - “we are all here, everyone is accounted for!” there may be a few other prisoners..”is everyone ok?” Paul must have asked.
The earthquake:
When the power of God is truly at work, the spiritual breaks through the natural.
(healing, praise and worship sessions)
God is always at work.. we can just suddenly see a breakthrough, things may be so bad around us but in an instant the Lord can orchestrate a great awakening - Damar Hamlin
3. True Freedom is a life wholly given to Christ.
Paul and Silas: they are all about the Gospel of Christ.
They could have responded, get us out of here first!
“What planet are you from”, the jailer must have asked.
Preaching the Gospel is not a duty, it should be a natural response of what the Lord has done in our lives!
The jailer: trembling with fear, he knew something awesome has taken place.. the Spirit of God is already at work.
His first question: What must I do to be saved?
Because Paul and Silas must have been showing the great love of God...
Never quit talking about Jesus to people, they may reject you now but someday, they may have no one to turn to except you..
Their response: “Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved, you and your household.”
Household - this is not automatic salvation for the household, it is not salvation by proxy — explain
Happy ending.
I believe the other prisoners were saved too.
In closing.. true freedom is freedom indeed.. which means freedom in every sense of the word.
The word “indeed”.
- free in every way
You feel you are imprisoned by the circumstances and the people around you.
This person in my life is holding me back..learn from Paul and Silas..
If you have wholly given your life to Jesus — nothing or no one should really hold you back! stop blaming others..
If you have wholly given your life to Jesus — nothing or no one should really hold you back!
Some people feel they are prisoners of their past..
We have heard this before: “I have such a bad memory of that place.”
This should be what Philippi was to Paul - A place and experience he would have consigned to forgetting about forever.
But no, it became not about the authorities there, the people, the physical beating — it became about the spiritual victory.
Later when he was imprisoned in Rome, Paul wrote to the church of Philippi, the most heartfelt and joyful of all his letters:
Just a few examples of what he wrote:
Now brother and sister - This is true freedom!
Let us pray.
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