9.30- About police officers and soldiers.

 9.30-

 

About police officers and soldiers.

Those who are sworn into service to our country as soldiers or police officers have a big responsibility. They have the power of life and death in their weapons they carry. How they look at the people they deal with is fairly important.

Try to imagine an attitude change that happened to an officer. He was very hard hearted. He beat up some prisoners because of their work of helping someone.

Then there was an earthquake.

Then the doors to the prison were opened.

He was ready to kill himself because of the consequences that would come to him for the prisoners escape.

Some people who had been beaten up by him told him to do himself no harm.

He was ready to learn a new way of life. How can I change and be a righteous person?

They told to believe in God. He did. He then washed the wounds on their back where he had beaten them.

Soldiers and police officers have turned to God for help many times and each of them is totally changed by the experience. I can think of a couple who are my good friends. I saw the change.

There are soldiers and police officers who know God and they care for the people they must deal with. Many of these people are trying to hurt them. How can they keep a good attitude? Only by the strength of God’s grace in their hearts. We have many great soldiers and policemen in this nation and I am thankful for them. Those who must deal with their job without faith in God could become very brutal because of the kind of work they have to do. Pray for them to know God and for God to protect them.

Acts 16.

²² The crowd rose up together against them, and the chief magistrates tore their ^[j]robes off them and proceeded to order ^[k]them to be beaten with rods. ²³ When they had struck them with many blows, they threw them into prison, commanding the jailer to guard them securely; ^24 [l]and he, having received such a command, threw them into the inner prison and fastened their feet in the ^[m]stocks.

²⁵ But about midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns of praise to God, and the prisoners were listening to them; ²⁶ and suddenly there came a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison house were shaken; and immediately all the doors were opened and everyone’s chains were unfastened. ²⁷ When the jailer awoke and saw the prison doors opened, he drew his sword and was about to kill himself, supposing that the prisoners had escaped. ²⁸ But Paul cried out with a loud voice, saying, “Do not harm yourself, for we are all here!” ²⁹ And he called for lights and rushed in, and trembling with fear he fell down before Paul and Silas, ³⁰ and after he brought them out, he said, “Sirs, what must I do to be saved?”

The Jailer Converted

³¹ They said, “Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved, you and your household.” ³² And they spoke the word of ^[n]the Lord to him together with all who were in his house. ³³ And he took them that very hour of the night and washed their wounds, and immediately he was baptized, he and all his household. ³⁴ And he brought them into his house and set ^[o]food before them, and rejoiced ^[p]greatly, having believed in God with his whole household.