The Lord Opened the Prison Doors

Today's reading: 2 Chronicles 11-13; Acts 5:17-42


Acts 5:19 But at night an angel of the Lord opened the prison doors and brought them out, and said...

The apostles where put in jail because the continued to preach in the name of Jesus and it really made the religious leaders mad. They thought they had put an end to this Jesus and His movement but He,and they, just wouldn't go away. Even though all of their attempts to silence them had failed they still tried to shut them up by putting them in jail. But the word and people of God can't be silenced.

The world system is in active rebellion against that gospel of Jesus and it shouldn't come as a surprise to us that it will attempt to silence it. Of course in the United States we don't have to worry about going to jail for our testimony, but that still doesn't prevent Satan from shutting us down with bondage of another type. For many people that bondage can take the form of emotional distress, for others it's financial difficulty, and others are held captive by fear or disease. All of these conspire to silence us and keep us from proclaiming the Good News, the exciting this is that the God who opened the prison doors and brought the apostles out of bondage is able to deliver us from the bondage we face.