Two weeks on the Life and Teachings of Paul: Day 5 - Shipwreck on the way to Rome (Acts 27)

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).
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