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How to Have Hope in the Dark // Acts 16:24-34 Sermon

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Being His witness is worth it.

In the movie 1917, a company of soldiers rests in a forest the night before a doomed assault, and one of them starts singing an old hymn about a world with no more sickness, toil, or danger. It's not a scene the filmmakers invented, men facing death have done this in real trenches. Centuries earlier, two men did the same thing in a Roman prison cell, with no idea if they'd survive the night.

This message walks through Acts 16:24-34, the story of Paul and Silas singing hymns at midnight in a Philippian jail, the earthquake that shakes the foundations and breaks their chains, and the jailer who goes from a sword at his own throat to jumping for joy in his own dining room by sunrise.

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