Summary
So the angel comes into the cell and there is a bright light with the appearance here of the angel in the cell. If you're in a jail cell and you know tomorrow you're going to be executed, would you be so asleep that a bright light doesn't wake you up and an angel has to come and say, get up, get up. So there's Peter in the jail cell, Shane who is guards to others outside and Peter falls asleep, deep sleep. There was the need for the rescue, but there was the understanding that whatever way this bends, whatever side of heaven God decides to do his rescue on, God will be glorified. Indeed, may we be a people that understand that whatever God's will is, if he wants to rescue this side of heaven or the other side of heaven, God will be glorified and that's all that we want. That the Lord and His graciousness looked upon our miserable plate and rescued us from an eternity destined for hell, transforming it into the beauty of heaven itself, claiming us in the waters of baptism, that our sins have been atone for, that death has been overcome, that we have been rescued and by His grace may He give us the eyes to see whatever situation we face in the here and now through the vision of the ultimate rescue, that He is accomplished for us in Jesus Christ.
Video citations
- "Rescued" May 26, 2019 — Rescues. Rescues. We see them throughout Holy Scripture. I think for example of the rescue of Jonah from the belly of the whale, that was the rescue, wasn't it? Or how about the rescue of Shadrack,…