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Lydia
Lydia
Paul is on his second missionary journey, they are delivering the decrees by the apostles in Jerusalem declaring that non-Jewish believers in Christ didn’t have to be circumcised to become part of the congregations.
He is also sharing the good news of Christ with both Jews and Gentiles.
Lydia and all her household are baptized into the faith.
This slave girl that has the “spirit of divination” POSSESSED. She makes a-lot of money for her masters by fortune-telling.
She if following Paul saying, “These men are bond-servants of the Most High God, who are proclaiming to you the way of salvation.”
Paul gets annoyed and commands the demon out of her.
19 But when her masters saw that their hope of profit was gone, they seized Paul and Silas and dragged them into the market place before the authorities,
20 and when they had brought them to the chief magistrates, they said, “These men are throwing our city into confusion, being Jews,
21 and are proclaiming customs which it is not lawful for us to accept or to observe, being Romans.”
Appealed to the antisemitic feelings of the Romans.
Technically correct.
Paul and Silas jailed.
Paul and Silas jailed.
22 The crowd rose up together against them, and the chief magistrates tore their robes off them and proceeded to order them to be beaten with rods.
23 When they had struck them with many blows, they threw them into prison, commanding the jailer to guard them securely;
24 and he, having received such a command, threw them into the inner prison and fastened their feet in the stocks.
Crowds are easier to manipulate than individuals.
Individuals will override their own conscious to fit into what the crowds wants.
2019 Masters
Woodstock 1999.
Any number of riots we have seen.
25 But about midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns of praise to God, and the prisoners were listening to them;
Why are they praising God?
18 And do not get drunk with wine, for that is dissipation, but be filled with the Spirit,
19 speaking to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody with your heart to the Lord;
20 always giving thanks for all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ to God, even the Father;
26 and suddenly there came a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison house were shaken; and immediately all the doors were opened and everyone’s chains were unfastened.
27 When the jailer awoke and saw the prison doors opened, he drew his sword and was about to kill himself, supposing that the prisoners had escaped.
The jailer though he had failed and was about to kill himself.
28 But Paul cried out with a loud voice, saying, “Do not harm yourself, for we are all here!”
29 And he called for lights and rushed in, and trembling with fear he fell down before Paul and Silas,
30 and after he brought them out, he said, “Sirs, what must I do to be saved?”
The Jailer would have known why they were jailed. Maybe he heard some of the things they said. Maybe they heard what the slave girl had said about them.
At the moment that he was about to die, Paul saved him.
Pauls response to the Jailer
Pauls response to the Jailer
31 They said, “Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved, you and your household.”
32 And they spoke the word of the Lord to him together with all who were in his house.
The Jailers response to the Gospel
33 And he took them that very hour of the night and washed their wounds, and immediately he was baptized, he and all his household.
34 And he brought them into his house and set food before them, and rejoiced greatly, having believed in God with his whole household.
35 Now when day came, the chief magistrates sent their policemen, saying, “Release those men.”
36 And the jailer reported these words to Paul, saying, “The chief magistrates have sent to release you. Therefore come out now and go in peace.”
37 But Paul said to them, “They have beaten us in public without trial, men who are Romans, and have thrown us into prison; and now are they sending us away secretly? No indeed! But let them come themselves and bring us out.”
38 The policemen reported these words to the chief magistrates. They were afraid when they heard that they were Romans,
39 and they came and appealed to them, and when they had brought them out, they kept begging them to leave the city.
40 They went out of the prison and entered the house of Lydia, and when they saw the brethren, they encouraged them and departed.
Why did Paul exercise his privileges as a Roman citizen?
To pave the way for the spread of the Gospel.
To glorify God.
Take home:
Don’t react to your circumstances, respond with thanks and praise.
25 But about midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns of praise to God, and the prisoners were listening to them;
44 “No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him; and I will raise him up on the last day.
Is he using your circumstances (And your faithful response) to draw people to Himself?
Love others as Christ loves them.
Paul stopped the Jailer from killing himself.
9 The Lord is not slow about His promise, as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing for any to perish but for all to come to repentance.
Trust in the Lord.
Hebrews 11 tells us about the great acts of faith of Abel, Enoch, Noah, Abraham, Sarah, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, Moses, Rahab, and on an on.
6 And without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is and that He is a rewarder of those who seek Him.