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SHAKEN, YET SAVED (3)

by Donald Cantrell

Scripture: Acts 16:22-34
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Title: Shaken, Yet Saved (3)
Series: "Lifestyle Evangelism Series" Sermon 3 - 3
Theme: "Using moments of shock and sorrow to bring people to Jesus"
Text: Acts 16: 22 - 34


I - The Tortured Men (22 - 24)

II - The Thrilling Maneuver (25)

III - The Terrifying Moment (26)

IV - The Terrified Man (27 - 28)

V - The Triumphant Message (29 - 34)

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Midnight

On January 24th of 2023 the Science and Security Board of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists moved the Doomsday Clock forward to ninety seconds to midnight. This is the closest to midnight the clock has ever been set. The clock is still set at ninety seconds to midnight.

The Doomsday Clock is set every year by the Bulletin's Science and Security Board in consultation with its Board of Sponsors, which includes ten Nobel laureates. The Clock has become a universally recognized indicator of the world's vulnerability to global catastrophe caused by manmade technologies.

We commonly use the concept of "midnight" when speaking of challenges, we are facing as individuals and even as nations. The concept is used especially when speaking of dangerous challenges.

Midnight speaks of the time when there is no further possibility of avoiding whatever challenge may loom before us. At midnight one day passes into the next; whatever is to be done this day must be accomplished shortly or it cannot be done in the allotted time.

In the story before us, we see that it is the midnight hour, as Paul and Silas rather chose to pray and sing praises unto the Lord, rather than wallow in self-pity. Those within the prison are listening, maybe even the keeper of the prison was listening, until he dozed off to sleep.

Then it happened, an earthquake hit, awakening the warden, as he decides to kill himself, but his night of shaking will lead him to a night of salvation!!!

I - The Tortured Men (22 - 24)

Act 16:22 KJV - And the multi ...

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