Salvation For
You & Your Family Acts 16:31
By Senior Pastor Prince Guneratnam
“They replied, ‘Believe in the Lord
Jesus, and you will be saved – you and your household’” (Acts
Salvation is a wonderful
blessing. It is more than being saved from death that the Book of Revelation
talks about for those who refuse to accept Jesus Christ as their Lord and Saviour and where Satan and his angels spend eternity. Salvation
can bring healing to sick bodies, deliverance from sinful habits and all the
blessings God has in store for those who put their faith in Him.
The blessings of salvation
are not without responsibility. When you have experience the salvation of the
Lord, it is your responsibility to lead your household to experience it too.
Salvation is for you and your household. Let us look at this beautiful account
from the Book of Acts (Acts
The Jailer’s Conversion
There are many ways to come
to Christ but there is only one way to God and it is through Christ. The jailor
came to know and accept Christ through a crisis. He was in charge of the jail.
There was an earthquake one night and the prison doors flew open. He thought
that the prisoners had seized the opportunity and escaped. Thinking that the
worst would come to him, he was about to take his own life when the Apostle
Paul shouted to him not to do so. The jailor, finding that the prisoners were
still there, fell on his asked Paul, “What must I do to be saved?” (Acts
The jailor obeyed and what a
transformation he experienced after that.
In any experience of genuine
salvation, as in the case on the jailor, there are three essential elements
involved – represented by 3 ‘C’s:
The first is conviction. It was the Apostle’s right attitude and Christ’s
righteousness seen in their lives that brought about conviction of sin in the
jailor’s life, which made him ask, “What must I do to be saved?”
The second is confession. The jailor confessed that Jesus is Lord by his
willingness to be baptized. The jailor recognized a need for Jesus to be Lord
in his life to experience God’s blessings. The self-centred
life of sin must be rejected and the Lordship of Christ accepted.
The third is conversion. The jailor was willing to do what was right. He
became a new man (2 Corinthians
The jailor, believing that his
salvation was not only for him but also for his household as the Apostle had
told him, took them to his house. The wonderful gift of the God’s salvation was
seen in the life of the jailor, and his whole family received Jesus Christ as
Lord (Acts
It is the responsibility of
every believer to bring salvation to his whole family. The best way to do this
is to live out the Christian life. Let your life speak of faith in Jesus. Paul
says, “For we are to God the aroma of Christ among those who are being saved
and those who are perishing” (2 Corinthians
Our families need the
salvation of Jesus Christ. They are seeking answers to life and a hope for
living. You are commanded by the Lord Jesus Christ in Acts 1:8, “But you will receive
the power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in
The first place to begin
your witness is
The most powerful evidence
of your salvation is your changed life. Let your light so shine before men that
they will accept Jesus Christ as Lord. We have no choice as believers but to
obey the Lord Jesus Christ. Therefore, let us all commit ourselves to the Lord
of the Harvest and reach our families and those we know for Jesus.
No. 15, January – March 1992