Paul and Silas Delivered from Prison

Reading Portion

Acts 15:40; 16:12,16-40

Lesson Content

1. Paul and Silas at Philippi during their missionary journey (Acts 15:40; 16:12).

2. A damsel possessed with the spirit of divination, who brought her masters much gain by soothsaying — Paul cast out the spirit from her (Acts 16:16-18).

3. Paul and Silas were caught by her masters and were taken to the magistrates — The magistrates commanded them to be beaten — After having beaten them, they thrust them into the inner prison and made their feet fast in the stocks (Acts 16:19-24).

4. At midnight, Paul and Silas prayed and sang praises to God (Acts 16:25).

5. The sudden earthquake and the incidents that followed (Acts 16:26).

6. The prison keeper’s attempt to kill himself and Paul’s intervention (Acts 16:27,28).

7. The keeper of the prison and his household were saved and baptized (Acts 16:29- 34).

8. Paul and Silas were delivered (Acts 16:35-40).

Moral

If we joyfully endure suffering for the name of Christ, God will devise His own means to deliver us and to use us for the salvation of others.