Acts, Chapter 27, verse 22-25
22 I urge you now to keep up your courage; not one of
you will be lost, only the ship. 23 For last night
an angel of the God to whom (I) belong and whom I serve stood by me 24
and
said, ‘Do not be afraid, Paul. You are destined to stand before Caesar;
and behold, for your sake, God has granted safety to all who are sailing with
you.’ 25
Therefore,
keep up your courage, men; I trust in God that it will turn out as I have been
told.
God
calls all peoples to the one covenant whether they be Jew, Muslim, and Catholic
or in this case roman pagans. Courage only the ship will be lost. As men
we make ourselves ships; ships which are the symbol of our values and our
idealism. If our values and idealism is not in compliance with the covenant our
ship will break up.
Jeremiah 31:31-34: "Behold, the days are coming,
says the LORD, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the
house of Judah, not like the covenant which I made with their fathers when I
took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, my covenant which
they broke, though I was their husband, says the LORD. But this is the covenant
which I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the LORD: I
will put my law within them, and I will write it upon their hearts; and I will
be their God, and they shall be my people. And no longer shall each man teach
his neighbor and each his brother, saying, `Know the LORD,' for they shall all
know me, from the least of them to the greatest, says the LORD; for I will
forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more."
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