Title: The Waters of Baptism
Series: Building Great Faith (2 of 4)
Scripture: Acts 16:25-33
Author: David Ireland, Ph.D.
1.0 God Says, "Be Baptized!" (Acts 16:25-33)
1.1 Can people change?
A) We're here today because of changed lives.
1. The Bible gives us a record of different kinds of people experiencing a transformed life-a new life-when the gospel intersected their life.
2. Some of the transformed people were morally good and others morally bad. Some were famous and others common. Some people were rich and others were poor.
3. Some were religious while others were irreligious. Yet, they all experienced transformation when the message of the gospel intersected their lives.
Acts 16:25-33 (NIV)-"25 About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the other prisoners were listening to them. 26 Suddenly there was such a violent earthquake that the foundations of the prison were shaken. At once all the prison doors flew open, and everyone's chains came loose. 27 The jailer woke up, and when he saw the prison doors open, he drew his sword and was about to kill himself because he thought the prisoners had escaped. 28 But Paul shouted, "Don't harm yourself! We are all here!"
29 The jailer called for lights, rushed in and fell trembling before Paul and Silas. 30 He then brought them out and asked, "Sirs, what must I do to be saved?" 31 They replied, "Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved-you and your household." 32 Then they spoke the word of the Lord to him and to all the others in his house. 33 At that hour of the night the jailer took them and washed their wounds; then immediately he and all his household were baptized."
Behind the Scenes Culturally
(1) Paul and Silas were thrown into prison because they cast out a demon out of a demonized fortune-teller.
(2) Being a slave and a fortune-teller, the delivered young lady no longer had the demonic power to predict the future. Her ...
Series: Building Great Faith (2 of 4)
Scripture: Acts 16:25-33
Author: David Ireland, Ph.D.
1.0 God Says, "Be Baptized!" (Acts 16:25-33)
1.1 Can people change?
A) We're here today because of changed lives.
1. The Bible gives us a record of different kinds of people experiencing a transformed life-a new life-when the gospel intersected their life.
2. Some of the transformed people were morally good and others morally bad. Some were famous and others common. Some people were rich and others were poor.
3. Some were religious while others were irreligious. Yet, they all experienced transformation when the message of the gospel intersected their lives.
Acts 16:25-33 (NIV)-"25 About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the other prisoners were listening to them. 26 Suddenly there was such a violent earthquake that the foundations of the prison were shaken. At once all the prison doors flew open, and everyone's chains came loose. 27 The jailer woke up, and when he saw the prison doors open, he drew his sword and was about to kill himself because he thought the prisoners had escaped. 28 But Paul shouted, "Don't harm yourself! We are all here!"
29 The jailer called for lights, rushed in and fell trembling before Paul and Silas. 30 He then brought them out and asked, "Sirs, what must I do to be saved?" 31 They replied, "Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved-you and your household." 32 Then they spoke the word of the Lord to him and to all the others in his house. 33 At that hour of the night the jailer took them and washed their wounds; then immediately he and all his household were baptized."
Behind the Scenes Culturally
(1) Paul and Silas were thrown into prison because they cast out a demon out of a demonized fortune-teller.
(2) Being a slave and a fortune-teller, the delivered young lady no longer had the demonic power to predict the future. Her ...
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