In Whose Keeping Acts 12: 6

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(And when Herod would have brought him forth, the same night Peter was

sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains: and the keepers

before the door kept the prison.)

1. Certainly not in an evil king’s keeping.

(Herod)

2. Certainly not in false religion’s keeping.

(v. 3 it pleased the Jews)

3. Certainly not in human force’s keeping.

(v.3 he proceeded further to take Peter also.)

4. Certainly not in the keeping of men.

(v.4 …and delivered him to four quarternions of soldiers…)

(v.6 …sleeping between two soldiers, …)

5. Certainly not in the keeping of physical bounds.

(v.5 Peter therefore was kept in prison: …)

6. Certainly not in the keeping of physical bonds.

(v.6 …bound him with chains; …)

Phil. 1: 12-14

v.7- 7. Certainly in the security and power of God’s hand.

(…And his chains fell off from his hands.)