Another Conversion, Acts 16:16-34

This post covers another conversion at Philippi.

Another Conversion discusses again what Paul taught about salvation.

After Lydia’s conversion, the apostle Paul went each day to the Philippian riverside to preach. However, a local slave girl having a spirit of divination, followed, Acts 16:17, crying, “These men are servants of the Most High God, who proclaim to you the way of salvation.”

After several days, this proclamation annoyed Paul. So, he cast the spirit out of the girl.

 However, this angered her owners who saw their income destroyed. So, they seized Paul and Silas and dragged them to the rulers in the marketplace. By accusing Paul and Silas of being Jews, they incited the crowd to provoke a beating and imprisonment in stocks in the inner prison.

At midnight, Paul and Silas sang praises and prayed to God. An earthquake occurred and loosened the bonds of all the prisoners.

The jailer was about to kill himself when Paul interrupted him, Acts 16:28. “Do not harm yourself, for we are all here.”

Then, the Jailer asked Paul and Silas about salvation, Acts 26:30-33. ““Sirs, what must I do to be saved?” …they said, “Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved, you and your household…they spoke the word of the Lord to him and to all who were in his house. And he took them the same hour of the night and washed their wounds; and… baptized at once, he and all his family.

So, once they believed in Jesus, they followed the plan outlined by Peter to believing Jews, Acts 2:38. “… “Repent…baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins,”

The washing of their wounds signified repentance. Baptism followed immediately.

Children could not undergo baptism, because they were required to believe.

Today, let us also follow Peter and the New Testament pattern for salvation.

So, what did we learn?

1.Salvation depends on hearing and believing the gospel, repenting of sins, and proper baptism.

2.Only those who can hear, believe, and repent can undergo correct baptism.

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