“Then he called for a light, and sprang in, and came trembling, and fell down before Paul and Silas, and brought them out, and said, Sirs, what must I do to be saved?” (Acts 16:29-30)
In the sixth Biblical question in this series, we find a jailer in the city of Philippi confronting two of his prisoners. The two prisoners, Paul and Silas, were Christians and had been arrested and put in jail for casting a demon out of a young woman. In jail at midnight the two men were singing and praying. God sent an earthquake which opened the prison doors and loosed everyone’s bands. That’s when the jailer came in and asked, “What must I do to be saved?”
This is the greatest question anyone could ask, for its answer will determine one’s eternal destiny. There is only one correct answer. The answer these two Christians gave the jailer is the answer the world needs. The answer they told him is the answer I pass on to you. Their answer was, “believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved.” (Acts 16:31) To believe is more than just retaining a head full of facts about Jesus. To believe is to rest one’s eternal destiny on the Lord Jesus. It is similar to what you do when you make a deposit at the bank, committing a sum of money to the care of the bank and resting in the assurance that the bank will take care of all you have committed to it. Believing on Him is to trust the sacrifice He made for you at Calvary.
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