A STRAIGHT ANSWER ‘Sirs ,what must I do to be saved?’ Acts16:30 We all have at times asked someone, a doctor perhaps, to ‘Give it to me straight.’ This question was asked of Paul and Silas by the Philippian jailor and they gave him a straight answer, the only answer. They gave him God’s answer. They told him to, ‘Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved.’ An All Important Question – The jailor asked that which meant the most to him. He was not seeking health or wealth, but mercy. That was the issue. He was not concerned with lesser things, and that would include everything besides the answer to this question. Here was a lost sinner seeking salvation. He did not ask what he must comprehend to be saved, or how much knowledge was required. No, this man had been taught of God, and what God had taught him was that he was a lost man. He therefore asked what he must do to be saved. That was the issue for him and only that. The Only Answer – Paul did not answer this man by telling him what he could not do, or by making him take a quiz to measure his theological understanding. The jailor had asked what he must do to be saved and Paul told him what he must do to be saved. Paul doesn’t say anything about election or predestination. That’s not what this man then needed to hear. I’ve known some self professing theologians that think Paul’s answer needed correcting, and they were qualified to do so. I pray someone would ask me this question the next time I preach. My answer will be, ‘Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved.’ It Still Is – I recently read two articles on this very subject. One insisted we must know all the great doctrines in God’s word about salvation before we can be saved. We must be brought in intellectually. The other stated that Christ says, ‘Come unto me,’ not to a particular position, but to a Person, ‘and you shall find rest.’ Why sing that our faith has found a resting place, not in device nor creed, then tell sinners about confessions and creeds, instead of about Christ, the sinner’s Savior? We’re told that this jailor and all his house believed in God, rejoicing together. I imagine that if some one had questioned his right to so because he wasn’t an intellectual, he would have gone on rejoicing anyway. And so should we.
Posted on: Sat, 17 Jan 2015 00:07:15 +0000
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