FELLOWSHIP IN CHRIST

WHAT MUST I DO TO BE SAVED? “And the keeper of the prison..called for a light..and came trembling, and fell down before Paul and Silas..and said, Sirs, what must I do to be saved? ” Acts 16:27- 30. Our scripture above holds, without doubt, the most important question a man or woman could ever ask of God or man! Before we explore Paul’s answer to the terrified jailor it must be noted that the jailor’s question contains many pre- supposed positions which had been held by that seeker of salvation. In order to understand what was transpiring here, and what dilemma had overtaken the man, we need to know that he was not seeking an escape from the earthquake which had just shaken the his jail (for he had already escaped injury) his concern was for his spiritual welfare, not his physical wellbeing! His escape from death had highlighted a fact that all human beings must face sooner or later: What happens when I die ? Is it, on the one hand, as the late Kerry

THE RAPTURE: THE FORGOTTEN PROMISE “For the Lord Himself shall descend from Heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air….” 1 Thessalonians 4:16 - 17. It has been said, “What the eye does not see, the heart does not grieve.” In other words, if one knows nothing of a “thing” or a “happening”, then one is not worried about it. This simplistic half- truth is generally nothing more than a sop to those who are happy to wander through life ignorant of those things which can enrich and enlighten. Ignorance of a truth, any truth, can diminish a soul who might otherwise have benefited greatly by the knowing. In a sense, Mark Twain’s nineteenth century classic “the Prince and the Pauper” highlighted this fact very clearly when two boys traded places for a laugh. Their innocent d

    AWAKE, AWAKE!                                       “And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed. The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light. Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying. But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.”          Romans 13:11- 14. This past twelve months has proved to have been something of a “culture shock” to this writer, for not only have I ventured into the company of the unsaved of the world, in order to reach them with the Gospel, and at the same time keep physically active, I have also reeled to and fro in the company of the “questionable” in the Church! One has to be very careful about making judgment about the salvation,