Peter Metzger - Making the Best Out of a Bad Situation

“Making theBest out of a Bad Situation”Peter Metzger8/3/2025Sun ValleyChurch MT in Florence, MontanaActs 27:42-4442 -  Andthe soldiers' counsel was to kill the prisoners, lest any of them should swimout, and escape.43 -  Butthe centurion, willing to save Paul, kept them from their purpose; andcommanded that they which could swim should cast themselves first into the sea,and get to land:44 -  Andthe rest, some on boards, and some on broken pieces of the ship. And so it cameto pass, that they escaped all safe to land.Acts 28:1-111 -  Andwhen they were escaped, then they knew that the island was called Melita.2 -  Andthe barbarous people shewed us no little kindness: for they kindled a fire, andreceived us every one, because of the present rain, and because of the cold.3 -  Andwhen Paul had gathered a bundle of sticks, and laid them on the fire, therecame a viper out of the heat, and fastened on his hand.4 -  Andwhen the barbarians saw the venomous beast hang on his hand, they said amongthemselves, No doubt this man is a murderer, whom, though he hath escaped thesea, yet vengeance suffereth not to live.5 -  Andhe shook off the beast into the fire, and felt no harm.6 - Howbeit they looked when he should have swollen, or fallen down dead suddenly:but after they had looked a great while, and saw no harm come to him, theychanged their minds, and said that he was a god.7 -  Inthe same quarters were possessions of the chief man of the island, whose namewas Publius; who received us, and lodged us three days courteously.8 -  Andit came to pass, that the father of Publius lay sick of a fever and of a bloodyflux: to whom Paul entered in, and prayed, and laid his hands on him, andhealed him.9 -  Sowhen this was done, others also, which had diseases in the island, came, andwere healed:10 -  Whoalso honoured us with many honours; and when we departed, they laded us withsuch things as were necessary.11 -  Andafter three months we departed in a ship of Alexandria, which had wintered inthe isle, whose sign was Castor and Pollux.