Continual Burnt Offering: Daily Meditations, August 27 (2:39)
“The promise is unto you and to your children” —Acts 2:39.
IT is a recognized principle, running through all dispensations, that God desires to save the households of His people. Noah prepared an ark for the saving of his house (Heb. 11:7), and God said to him, “Come thou and all thy house into the ark: for thee have I seen righteous before Me in this generation” (Gen. 7:1). Of Abraham the Lord declared, “I know him, that he will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of the Lord, to do justice and judgment” (Gen. 18:19). David said, “Thou hast spoken also of thy servant’s house for a great while to come” (2 Sam. 7:19). The promise to the Philippian jailer was, “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house” (Acts 16:31).