27 When the
fourteenth night had come, as we were being driven across the Adriatic Sea,
about midnight the sailors suspected that they were nearing land. 28 So they
took a sounding and found twenty fathoms. [4] A little farther on they took a
sounding again and found fifteen fathoms. [5] 29 And fearing that we might run
on the rocks, they let down four anchors from the stern and prayed for day to
come. 30 And as the sailors were seeking to escape from the ship, and had
lowered the ship's boat into the sea under pretense of laying out anchors from
the bow, 31 Paul said to the centurion and the soldiers, “Unless these men stay
in the ship, you cannot be saved.” 32 Then the soldiers cut away the ropes of the
ship's boat and let it go. (Acts 27:26-32 (ESV)
Paul had said that they would run aground on an island. When
the Island is coming the sailors want to take a boat and let the ship fend for
itself. A heavy ship does not do well coming to shore. Usually runs aground
someway before the shore and tosses people in to the sea, where as a boat can
be taken right up onto land. But Paul won’t have it. He lets the centurion know
that it is all or none. We are all saved or none of us are saved. If these men
don’t stay in the boat, you will be lost. And there went the escape plan. The
boat is cut from the ship.
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