Acts: 15:36 – 16:40
Thank you for continuing our journey of The Gospel Project®
for Kids. Sunday’s Bible account focuses on Paul’s second missionary
journey that he took to follow up with the churches he had started on
his first journey. Paul wanted to see how the new believers were doing.
Paul and his companion Silas traveled through Syria and Cilicia,
encouraging believers and strengthening churches. The numbers of
believers in the churches increased daily.
One
night, while Paul and Silas were in Troas, the Lord told Paul to go to
Macedonia and preach the gospel to the people. So Paul and Silas obeyed.
They sailed to Macedonia, staying in the city of Philippi for several
days.
Two
major events happened while Paul was in Macedonia. First, a woman named
Lydia became a believer. God opened Lydia’s heart to the good news of
the gospel. She believed and was baptized. Then she invited Paul and
Silas to stay at her house.
Then,
Paul and Silas were thrown into prison after Paul commanded a
fortune-telling spirit to come out of a slave girl. Late at night, an
earthquake rocked the prison, flung open the doors, and shucked off the
shackles. The prisoners could have jumped up and escaped, but they
stayed where they were. The jailer asked Paul and Silas how to be saved.
“Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved,” they said. The man
believed and was baptized.
Lydia,
the jailer, and many others were saved because they believed in Jesus.
Jesus offers us salvation as a gift. He did all the work to save us by
dying on the cross. We cannot earn salvation; we can just receive it by
repenting and trusting in Jesus.
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