Act 27:24, 31 | Family | STEP | God hath given thee all ; for thy sake, and in answer to thy prayers, they shall be preserved.

Acts 27:24

God hath given thee all; for thy sake, and in answer to thy prayers, they shall be preserved.

Acts 27:31

Paul; who saw what they intended.

These; the sailors.

Ye cannot be saved; their agency was necessary to manage the vessel. Though God had given Paul the lives of all in the ship, they were yet to be saved by the use of the appropriate means. A future event may be certain because God has determined and revealed it, and it may also be true that unless men use the proper means it will never take place. It was certain that all the two hundred and seventy-five who were with Paul in the ship would get to land, and it was also certain that unless the sailors should stay and manage the ship they would not get to land. So that the use of proper means is just as necessary to accomplish an event which is beforehand certain, as it would be if it were not certain, and its accomplishment depended solely on those means.