Title: Guardian Angel
Contents
title ; Guardian Angel
main text ; Acts 12:1-19
A true story like this was published in 'Reader's Digest'.
Dr. Mitchell, a Philadelphia neurologist, was lying in his bedroom exhausted after a day's work.
But someone knocked on the bedroom door, so I went out and saw a girl in some shabby clothes begging me to go with her, because her mother was very ill. So I went with the girl to a visit, and it was very cold and snowing that day.
When we arrived at the house, we found a certain woman who was very ill with pneumonia. So, while treating her, I said, "Your daughter is so brave and clever! You have such a wonderful daughter." The patient said, "My daughter. Our daughter died a month ago." I'd say
In other words, an angel appeared in the form of the girl to save the woman.
There is also this true story. A missionary named 'John C. Patton' was working in the New Hiburaires Islands area, and the barbarian villagers of the area became hostile to the missionary and laid siege to kill the missionary couple and set their house on fire.
At this time, the missionary couple sat in the room and prayed earnestly to God to protect them. But for some reason those savages all slipped away.
A year later, after believing in Jesus and being saved, the chief of the barbarian village was talking about it and asked, "Why did you go away after besieging us to kill us?" When he saw him coming out of the house with a large sword wearing it, we couldn't stand it, so we just ran away."
In other words, an angel appeared in the form of soldiers and protected the missionary couple.
In the text, we see that King Herod imprisoned Peter to kill him.
Now, just one night later, Peter was beheaded and on the verge of death. So, all the members of the church are vigilant and pray earnestly to God to save Peter.
Then suddenly an angel of the Lord appeared in the prison where Peter was. Then he taps Peter on the side to wake him up and says, "Get up quickly." Then Peter said, "Girl and put on your shoes. Put on your robe and follow me." Peter followed the angel, and the iron gate opened by itself and he was able to come out into the street.
Then Peter came to his senses and said, "Now I know truly that the Lord has sent his angel to deliver me from the hand of Herod and from all expectations of the Jewish people" (Acts 12:11).
In other words, even the Apostle Peter doubted at first whether it was a dream or a real dream that an angel rescued him from prison, but only later realized for sure when he came to his senses.
Ladies and gentlemen, there are many believers who think of 'angels' as only fictional beings from cartoons and do not believe in the existence of angels. However, the Bible mentions angels more than 300 times.
Even if it is recorded once or twice in the Bible, we should believe it, but if we do not believe in angels that are recorded more than 300 times, we cannot say that we fully believe the words of the Bible.
And often speaking of angels, many people do not believe in their existence because they think of angels as having wings and appearing in the form of a child or a woman, as in picture books, or they think of them as a goblin or a witch. , neither female nor male, and there is no gender distinction.
On the contrary, the image of an angel that appears frequently in the Old Testament is closer to a man than a woman. And angels are often invisible spiritual beings, and sometimes they appear in human form.
Ladies and gentlemen, although we cannot see the electricity flowing through the wire with our eyes, we can see that the light turns on and the fan or refrigerator turns with the power of electricity. can know the existence of
I bless you guys in believing that angels are still chasing us from front to back and escorting us. Today, angels help us when we are in trouble and rescue us when we are in danger.
In Daniel 6, this is the case. Daniel was envy and insulted by his enemies and was thrown into the lions' den.
But the next day, when the king went to the lions' den, Daniel said to the king that he was not hurt in the slightest. "Long live the king. My God has sent his angel and has shut the lions' mouths, so that they have not harmed me." (Daniel 6:21-22)
In this way, the Bible testifies that Daniel and Peter were able to be rescued from the danger of their lives through the angel's help, and that the Israelites miraculously escaped from slavery in Egypt and survived many difficulties.
?쏻e cried out to the LORD, and he heard our voice, and sent an angel and brought us out of Egypt??(Numbers 20:16).
In this way, gentlemen, angels play a role in rescuing us from various dangers and tribulations. And the angels of God who rescued the forefathers of faith in this way play a protective role for each of us today.
"No, Pastor, do I really have a guardian angel to protect me? I can't believe it."
According to the Bible, even a man named Jacob did not believe that an angel was protecting him at first. But this happened to him. My brother was about to kill me, so I hurriedly left my hometown and ran away, but as the sun went down, I ended up sleeping in the wilderness.
He was very worried about what was going to happen to him. For the first time in my life, I left my father and mother's arms and ran away to the house of my maternal uncle, whom I had never met. His road ahead was very unstable and very dark.
But in my dream, a ladder stood on the ground, and the top reached the sky, and when I looked up, I saw an angel of God ascending and descending on it. It was then that he realized.
"Aha, the angels of God are ascending and descending in heaven and on earth, reporting my circumstances to God, and receiving God's instructions to protect me!"
In the end, he was able to live in a foreign land for 20 years with the help of an angel, and he was able to become very rich and return to his hometown.
However, even after 20 years have passed, his older brother Esau does not resolve his grudge and mobilizes 400 men to run to kill Jacob. At this time, Jacob is so bewildered that he prays at the Jabbok River all night long.
Then an angel appears and blesses Jacob and changes his name to Israel. And after this angel appeared, miraculously, the brother's heart, who was trying to kill him, melted, and they hugged each other and wept. In other words, a guardian angel appeared to protect Jacob from his perilous moment.
Today, at the end of the last days, Satan's messengers, demons, work in various ways to harass the saints, but I pray that you will firmly believe in the fact that angels, messengers of God, follow us like shadows and protect us.
Pastor Billy Graham says, "If you are a believer, believe that the angels of power will accompany you and protect you in your life."
Everyone, believe strongly that God is protecting us today as his angel, a bodyguard sent from heaven to protect his beloved and precious children.
The Bible says, ?쏧t shall be done according to your faith,??but if we believe that an angel will walk with me and protect me, then God will work according to our faith, right?
In 2 Kings 6, the king of Syria sent a large number of soldiers to capture Elisha and besieged the city of Dothan where Elisha was. However, Elisha was able to be calm because with his spiritual eyes he saw the angel of God encamped around him to protect him (2 Kings 6:14-17).
Also, when Jesus was in the wilderness for 40 days, there were many wild beasts, but the Bible says that angels attended Jesus (Mark 1:13).
Ladies and gentlemen, we do not need to be afraid or anxious for nothing by looking at only the demons that are slandering us in the last days. Do not forget the guardian angel of God who is guarding us today.
God has commissioned angels for us in this evil age. Our mission is to protect us, the children of God. Therefore, through the help of the angels, we can dwell in peace and raise the title of victory.
Sometimes the path of life we will walk may be full of countless enemies. But we must lift up our eyes and look at the angels in heaven, all around us. Even today, angels are protecting us under God's command.
So we pray like this.
"God! Please mobilize the angels of heaven to protect each and every one of us just as you protected Elisha and Peter and Jacob and Daniel in the old days! And our church that is trying to build the kingdom of God in this foreign land. Keep us through your angels, and keep our saints' homes through your angels!"