He is the one who tells you the way to salvation

 

He is the one who tells you the way to salvation

 

Acts 16:16-17 "As we were going to the place of prayer, a slave girl with a spirit of divination met us, who brought her owners a great deal of money by fortune-telling. She followed Paul and us, shouting, 'These men are servants of the Most High God, who tell you the way to salvation.'"

"The situation that put Paul and Silas in trouble" begins with a slave girl they met on their way to a place of prayer. "This slave girl who was possessed by a demon and a fortuneteller" lived a pitiful life, being taken advantage of by her evil masters. And that evil master followed them and shouted at them to hinder their ministry.

Paul was so stressed that he turned around and commanded the evil spirit that was tormenting the slave girl in the name of Jesus Christ. The "possessed slave girl speaking about Paul" was to instill in people that she was on the same level as Paul, because the possessed slave girl had the power of fortune telling and made money through it.

The demon comes out immediately and the poor demon-possessed slave girl is cleansed in the name of Jesus. But there is a problem. The masters who profit from the demon-possessed slave girl. The phrase “the masters of the slave girl” shows that there are more than one master who profit from this poor demon-possessed slave girl.

When the owners of this slave girl saw that their hope of profit was gone, they seized Paul and Silas and dragged them into the marketplace to the magistrates, where they accused them before the authorities. Paul, who knew that the situation would become complicated, was greatly distressed, and when he could no longer bear it, he exorcised the demon.

The crowd rose up together and accused Paul and Silas, and the magistrates ordered them to be stripped of their clothes and beaten with rods. After beating them severely, they gave special orders to the jailer to keep them safe. Paul and Silas were not just thrown into prison, but into the inner prison, and their feet were also fastened in the stocks.

That night, in the pitch-black prison, Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening. While they were singing and praying, there was a great earthquake. The foundations of the prison shook, all the doors flew open, and the strong chains that bound Paul and Silas and all the others fell away.

The guards were asleep, but when they saw the prison doors wide open and their chains loosened, they were about to kill themselves, since they were already dead. But Paul cried out with a loud voice, “Here we are!” The guard knelt before Paul and Silas, who were in chains, and cried out,

Acts 16:29-32 “Then the jailer called for lights and rushed in. He fell trembling before Paul and Silas. Then he brought them out and said, ‘Sirs, what must I do to be saved?’ But they said to him, ‘Believe in the Lord Jesus (pistusson epi ton kuirión Jesus), and you will be saved—you and your household.’ And they spoke to him and all who were in his house the word of the Lord (ho logos).’”

The jailer began to fear God. When he saw the prison doors open, he realized that Paul and Silas were men of God. At that time, the jailer did not fear the Roman Empire, but God. He trembled in fear of God who was with Paul. Those who repent fear only God.

So Paul said, "Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved—you and your household." "Pistuson epi (English on) ton kyrión Jesus πίστευσον ἐπὶ τὸν κύριον Ἰησοῦν" means "Believe in the Lord Jesus who is above (the kingdom of God)."

In the Lord Jesus (Ton Curion Jesus τὸν κύριον Ἰησοῦν), Curion (Kurios), translated as Lord, is a translation of the Hebrew Adonai, which is translated as the Lord in the English Bible. And the Hebrew Yahweh, translated as Jehovah, is translated as The LORD.

Ton kurio Yesu (τὸν κύριον Ἰησοῦν) if translated again, is Jehovah Jesus. It means to believe in Jehovah Jesus. God revealed His name to Moses, saying, I AM (haya asher haya), but in later times the Jews called Him Yahweh. That means God's name is Yahweh. In the Acts of the Apostles, Yahweh (Jehovah) is Jesus. Since Jesus' name is Jehovah, and Jehovah is God's name, Jehovah's name is also Jesus. In other words, the name Jesus is Jehovah. Baptizing in the name of Jesus and healing the sick means that this is what Jehovah does.

Matthew 1:21-23 “And she will bring forth a Son, and you are to give Him the name Jesus, for He will save His people from their sins.” Now all this took place to fulfill what the Lord had spoken through the prophet: “Behold, the virgin will conceive and bear a Son, and they will call His name Immanuel,” which means, “God with us.”

Jesus, in the name of Jehovah, was the very embodiment of God, but he wanted to be called the Son of God, because he had to die on the cross for the salvation of the world.

Church members call Jesus the Son of God. God the Father wants Jesus to be the Son. If Jesus becomes God, it means that he is stabbing himself. Jesus' death is God's justice that judges sin. If believers call Jesus God, they are hindering God's justice. God's will is "to save sinners through the Son, not to show that Jesus is God."

God predestined Christ before the creation of the world, and Christ died on the cross according to plan, was resurrected, ascended to heaven, and returned to the hearts of the saints. For the saints, the return of Jesus has already occurred. However, Christ will return to the world at the end to judge the unbelievers. And when the end of the world comes, Jesus will return to the place of Jehovah.

Church members are confusing the definition of God by saying that God is one, but God is a Trinity.