Violent Grace – Simple Grace

"Sirs, what must I do to be saved?" asked the Philippian Jailer fresh from a near miss (Acts 16:30). A few moments earlier he had pulled his sword with full intent of ending his miserable life but grace had prevailed. Paul and Silas, who had been mercilessly beaten at the hand of the multitude and magistrates and then turned over to the callous jailer, had prevented a mass escape from the prison following an earthquake that supernaturally opened all prison doors and loosed everyone’s chains. They themselves, prized prisoners, had remained as a testimony to the faithless.