Last week by the Curtis preaching and reminded me of, or made me think about this scene in Seinfeld. Can you sign bell bands? I know that I'm getting really old because I have two girls who could care less about Seinfeld. They're like, I don't get it.
I don't get it. He's not even funny. I'm like, you're out of your mind. That's a show about nothing that is pretty.
All right, so there's this character. His name is Kenny Banya. Anybody know who I'm talking about? Kenny Banya is the other comedian who drives Jerry.
Right? Crazy. Kenny one time got Jerry in Armani suit. Remember this?
He got him in Armani suits. You don't owe me anything. And he's the way you could just take me out to eat. And then he got a bowl of soup.
And one time he was like, that doesn't count. Soup's not a meal. And then he had to take him out for a real meal. And along the way, Kenny was wanting to know how does Jerry do his comedy?
Like, hey, Jerry, you're killing it at the comedy club. And he's kind of struggling. And so Jerry wrote him a joke. Classic Jerry Seinfeld joke about oval teen.
Remember this? Right? The oval teen. Kenny's like, no, he's got this oval teen.
So Jerry writes this joke. He says, what's up with oval teen? The mug is round. The jar is round.
They all call it round teen. And Kenny Vanja goes, Jerry, that's gold. That's gold, Jerry. And he put it into his act.
Last week, Brother Curtis said, you can't have a win without a fight. Curtis, that's gold, man. I'm telling you, that is gold. You can't have a win without a fight.
And here's what I want to know, that if we, listen, if we'll get into the fight, if we'll face down the giant, if we'll face down our fears, if we'll heed the mission giver, I'm telling you, the world can be changed. And when I say that, I mean, it can be changed for God's glory and for the eternal good of others. The last message that I preached in our journey to the cross series, which I said was our last, and it wasn't, this will be the last, I promise you. But in that message, I shared with you that I had a light bulb moment from Mark chapter 16.
I've read Mark many times. I have looked at all of the renditions of the Great Commission many times. And yet, when I got to the end of the message and we were looking at Mark 16 and verse 20, after he had commissioned his church, after he had ascended into heaven, the Bible then says that they went forth and preached everywhere, the Lord working with them. And that was the light bulb moment.
Right there, who was doing the work? The Lord was doing the work. Why were they successful? The Lord was working with them.
And I went on in that message and shared how that first century church went on to carry the gospel into all of the known world. And when you read all of the Great Commission examples and then you get into the book of Acts, you read through it and you find the church does indeed go from Jerusalem to Judea, Samaria, to the uttermost parts of the known world. And they are carrying the gospel in Acts 17, Paul and Silas on the second missionary journey, show up in Thessalonica where they reason in a synagogue for three weeks and people are getting saved. Their lives are being changed and they are accused of turning the world upside down.
But it wasn't them, it was Jesus, right? It wasn't, it wasn't Paul and Silas who turned the world upside down. It was Jesus who turned the world upside down. And all they did was proclaim Christ, crucified, buried and risen again.
And here's what I want you to see and why I want to continue the series. We're going to wrap it up today. Is it the same Jesus who journey to the cross still changing lives today? The same Jesus who walk to the cross is still changing lives today.
He is the world changer. If you have your Bibles, we are in Acts 17. If you would, stay with me on the reading of God's word. I want to appreciate this morning, a message entitled, The World changer, Acts 17, beginning in verse one, it says, now when they, that's Paul and Silas, they passed through empopolis and abalone.
They came to Thessalonica where it was, the synagogue of the Jews. And Paul, as his manner was, went in unto them and three Sabbath days, he reasoned with them out of the scriptures, opening and alleging that Christ must needs have suffered and risen again from the dead and that Jesus, this Jesus whom I preach unto you is the Christ. And some of them believed and consorted with Paul and Silas and of the devout Greeks, the great multitude and of the chief women, not a few, but the Jews which believed not, moved with envy, took unto the uncertain loot fellows of the Baser Sort and gathered a company and set all the city on it up roar and assaulted the house of Jason and sought to bring Paul and Silas out to the people. But when they found them not, they drew Jason and certain brethren under the rulers of the city crying, these that have turned the world upside down are come hither also.
Father, as we come to you today, I pray, God, would you help us to get it? God, would you help us to get it? Jesus came into this world that he died was buried and that he was raised from the grave, that Jesus saves souls and that he will work through us to turn this world upside down? Jesus, we're afraid.
Or would you use us to turn our communities right side up or for your glory? God, I'm praying today that souls will be saved, lives will be changed, or that you would use us for the glory and the fame of your name. I pray this in Jesus name, amen. And amen, so in Acts 17, Paul and Silas, they come into this town at Thessalonica.
And they're doing what the mission giver had said to do. The mission giver had commissioned his charge to go and to preach the gospel to every creature. He had said in Acts 1, verse 8, but you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria, to the uttermost parts of the world, the Apostle Paul and Silas on their second missionary journey. They are doing the mission that the mission giver had given.
And in three weeks, something incredible happens. Lives are changed, hearts are stirred, false gods are abandoned, religious people find freedom, sinners are saved, and entire city is impacted. And there's these unbelieving Jews who make this accusation. They drag out Jason and others from his house, they drag them down to the city rulers, and they say, these men who have turned the world upside down, have come to our town also.
What a statement. They were giving Paul and Silas all the credit, though, right? Paul and Silas have turned the world upside down. They're on to Raj who's been preaching this message.
They've turned the world upside down, and now they've come to our town also, but it wasn't Paul and Silas. It was Jesus. He's the one who turned the world upside down. Or actually, I think you could say this way, he was turning the world right side up.
Imagine if our community said that about us. What would it be like if some people say, you know those guys over there in South Union, those folks who are turning the world upside down, but they're turning our community upside down too. I want to compliment. Right, but I can't tell you this, it wouldn't be us though.
It would be Jesus, right? And here's my question, is can that happen? I mean, we look through the book of Acts, we're like, hey, here's some people who went and preached for three weeks, and they're accused of turning the world upside down. Could we do that?
Could it happen through us? Could it be said that Jesus through South Union turned the world upside down? And I would tell you yes, it could. And not only that it could happen, but it should happen.
It needs to happen. It can, but will it? I will say this, that if it's going to happen, if Jesus is going to use us to turn the world upside down, you know, if we're going to experience the wind, then we got to get into the fight. If we're going to experience the wind, we got to get into the fight.
I think Curtis also alluded to this, right? You got to get out of the Holy Huddle. How you got to get into the play of the game? I don't think sometimes we show up here, and let me tell you what this is, right?
This is like the huddle. Right, this is what we call the Holy Huddle. And we show up and you don't, you do it a huddle, you call the play, you don't win the game in the huddle. You don't even play the game in the huddle.
You play the game once you break the huddle and you come up to the line. You stay in the huddle too long, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, you don't win the game in the huddle. You win the game playing on the field. This is not the field, that's the field.
We need to carry out the play. You don't get me wrong, inviting people to church is a good thing. Matter of fact, I want you to do that. Matter of fact, I would even encourage you to look into your life right now and say, when's the last time I invited someone to church?
When's the last time I actually put out a legitimate invitation to just come and see? And I say this because that's how Jesus started. The very first invitation that Christ made to anyone was, come and see, just come and see. And then he upped it, right?
Follow me. Then in Matthew 4, hey, follow me. And I'll make you become fishers of men. And then we get to the commission and it's go and tell.
You see, it's a good thing to invite people to come and see. But ultimately, we've got to get to the go and tell. If we're going to fulfill the mission, that the mission give or game, if we're going to allow him to use us to turn the world upside down, we have to go and tell. Watch what happens when Paul and Silas get out of the huddle and run the play.
Number one, the world changer is revealed. Verse two says, and Paul, as his manner was, went in unto them and on three Sabbath days, he reasoned with them out of the scriptures, opening and alleging that Christ must needs have suffered and risen from the dead. The country is that Paul didn't go to the Thessalonica with his opinions or with philosophy or with entertainment. It says that he reasoned with them out of what?
The scriptures. That's what he used, right? He just took the word of God and he opened it up and he showed them Jesus in the scriptures. He showed them how Jesus is the world changer.
And he is. Paul and that's just let me talk to you about someone who can change your life. I can't get any Wilson's song. Let me tell you about my Jesus and let my Jesus change your life.
Paul opened, he alleged, he reasoned, he showed that Jesus was the promised Messiah and that Messiah had to suffer and die and be raised from the dead and that Messiah is none other than Jesus Christ, who was crucified and risen from the dead. You know what Paul preached? The message of the cross. Everybody said, he didn't come to improve people's lives.
He didn't come to change behavior. No, he came to change us. He came to save us. Jesus is the Christ.
He is the Savior, not just a teacher, not just an example to be followed. He is the Savior who changes the world. Christ is the world changer. And how does he do it?
By the power of the gospel. The Apostle Paul said in Romans 16, he said, I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God on salvation. I'll tell you this, the gospel's not helpful advice. It's not self-help psychology.
It's not a religious philosophy. The gospel is power. It's the power to forgive sin. It's the power to break bondage.
It is the power to give new life. It's powerful. The gospel's not weak. It doesn't fail.
It doesn't partially save. It doesn't like 50% save. No, no, no, no. The gospel saves from sin.
And it turns our life right side up and puts us in a right standing with God. It's powerful. Paul writing to the church at Thessalonica in his first epistle back to the people that he had walked into spent three weeks with and was accused of turning the world upside down. He writes back to that church.
First, that's only his one verse five. And listen to what he says, as he references his entrance into the city. He says, for our gospel came not unto you in word only, but also in power and in the Holy Ghost. He said, man, we didn't just show up and share some words with you.
It wasn't just something came out of our mouths. It was words that were powerful because of the Holy Spirit, because of the truth of the gospel. And those words that were powerful, the gospel literally had them accused of turning the world upside down. I'm gonna tell you some, those words, the gospel that are powerful can steal from the world upside down.
Certainly can turn people's worlds right side up. And you guys know this, you've heard my testimony. I shared with you how I surrendered to preach the gospel. And I remember preaching the very first message that I ever preached from the Pilipia of County Avenue Baptist Church.
And hey, listen, I was just a young kid. I went like I only have a whole lot of opportunities to preach in that pulpia. And matter of fact, of all the years that I continue to be a member of County Avenue, I only got to preach in my pastor's pulpia one more time, just twice. But you know where I got invited to preach in the jails.
That guy named Mike Crane, who was working in the jails. And he came alongside a guy named Frank Garrett. I mean, a man who had a heart for the jails and the nursing homes. And Mike came alongside me and said, hey, I only invite you to come down to By State Criminal Justice Center on Friday night at nine o'clock.
Okay. And he not only invited me, he invited brother Randy, he invited brother Chris, my cousin. And so these young boys who had surrendered to the ministry got involved in some jail ministry. And I can remember going there on Friday nights and you'd get in the elevator and you'd go up.
I don't know what floor it was on. You'd get off that elevator and all you could see was a mirror. There's someone behind the mirror. You didn't know what they were there, not there.
You could see you and you'd walk up, hit this buzzer, talk to somebody, go through a steel door, empty out your pockets. They take us into this big room. And then they leave. I'm talking about the guards, they're gone.
And then here come a pod, what I call jail birds. They'd come in. And then there'd be another pod. Maybe random every week.
It could be pod A, pod C, pod E, pod J, whatever the pods's were. They'd come in, shut the door. There ain't no guard in there. Range every get uncomfortable.
I'll tell you what, you'd be in there. We'd sing songs, share hymns, pray, preach. And right on the front row would be a guy who was just accused of killing someone the night before. Next to someone who had, you know, they were in there for selling dope.
Next to someone who for whatever reason they were in jail. They were just all kind of people in there, man. And it was like, wow, this is, I don't know, man. There ain't no guard in here.
What if something goes wrong? But we'd sing, we'd pray, we'd preach. I'm gonna tell you men who've been discarded by the world. Men who, for whatever reason, trapped in sin and violence and turmoil and crime, lives would get changed.
I'm telling you that they get saved and their lives would be changing. It wasn't because the preaching was polished, man. Listen, I can't believe that he even gave me a shot at preaching the gospel. I'm like, I mean, this is like, this is big, man.
This is important. I wanna mess it up. Mike's like, oh, you ain't gonna mess it up. Why?
Because they ain't got nothing to do about you. It's the gospel and it's the power of the gospel. And in weakness, I got to preach. In weakness, Randy, I got to share.
I mean, we're all of it. Listen, people got changed, but again, it wasn't the polished preaching. It wasn't the program. It wasn't, hey, it was the jail minister, county avenue Baptist Church.
It wasn't the program. It was the power of the gospel. It was changing lives. Listen, that same power continues to change lives today.
And it can. Why? Because Jesus still saves. You see, that's true today.
And because that's true today, the world can still be turned upside down because the power is not of us. The power is of Christ. And that power has not changed. God has the power not changed, but God hasn't changed.
Hebrews 13 verse 8 says, Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forevermore. Jesus hasn't changed. God doesn't change. Malachi 3 verse 6 says, for I am the Lord.
Jehovah, I changed, no, God hasn't changed. You know what that means? That if God hasn't changed and the power of the gospel hasn't changed, then this idea that the world can be turned upside down, it hasn't changed either. The world can be turned upside down because God's love hasn't changed.
His mercy hasn't changed. His desire to save hasn't changed. Can I tell you that when Jesus uttered these words to Nicodemus for God so loved the world, dot, dot, almost 2,000 years ago, it wasn't like, well, 2,000 years ago God loved the world. 2,000 years later, he does.
No, he still loves the world. He hasn't changed. His love hasn't changed. His desire for people to come to repentance hasn't changed.
But he did make this clear to Nicodemus. He said in chapter 3 verse 7, he said, Marvel, not Nicodemus, that I say unto you, you must be born again. Hey, Nicodemus isn't just a good idea. It's not something you should consider or think about.
Or you should reason in your heart. Maybe one day you might consider that that's a good idea. No, I'm telling you, it's a must. You must be born again.
Why? Because God is not changed. The world can still be turned upside down. That is the mission of Jesus Christ.
As a matter of fact, he came on a mission to seek and to save the lost. The cross was not an accident. It's the plan of God. Listen, Jesus came to take our sin on the cross.
He came to bear our punishment. He came to die in our place. You see, the gospel's power hasn't changed. God hasn't changed.
And to tell you this, the need of men and women has not changed. The need is still the same. It's not the same. It's the same.
It's the same. It's the same. It's the same. It's the same.
It's the same. It's the same. It's the same. It's the same.
All right, I'll tell you this. The need of men and women has not changed. The need is still the same. We need those who are lost need to be saved.
That's why the world can be turned upside down. And that's why the world must be turned upside down. Because the need hasn't changed. People are still dying.
Lost in sin while in need of a savior. I'll tell you this, the Bible teaches us that you leave this world without Christ. You are headed for judgment. Every person who's walking in this world, lost in their sin, is like a man on death row.
You know what it says about a man on death row? What people say, he's a dead man walking. He is as good as dead. He's guilty of his crime.
He's on death row. He's just a matter of time. He's a dead man walking. You know what every person on death row needs?
A pardon. Right, they don't deserve it. They can't earn it. They're not worthy of it.
They're guilty of it. But if someone with authority would have mercy on them, they would surely receive it. Can I tell you this, that Jesus Christ is the one who has authority. He stepped into this world.
He took our place. He died for our sin, was buried and raised again. And that pardon is freely available to every last person on planet earth. We cannot earn the pardon.
We do not deserve the pardon. But we can have the pardon because Jesus died for us. And unlock an earthly pardon. This pardon is offered freely to anyone who will believe.
God has not changed. His love has not changed. His desire to save the lost has not changed. And the tragedy that we face today is not that the pardon is unavailable.
It is available. The tragedy is that there are so many people who have not clearly heard that the pardon is available. People need to hear that there is a pardon that is available to them. Because they deserve it, not because they can earn it, not because they are worthy of it, but because Jesus Christ took their place, died for them, and offers to them freely life that comes by the power of His resurrection.
See, they need to hear the message. We have it. It is the message of the world changer. You see, Jesus is continuing His work today.
We saw this in the mission giver. He commissioned His church and He says, going to all the world and do what? Preach the gospel to every creature. And it is through the proclamation of the gospel that people can hear about the pardon that they can freely receive by faith.
Acts 17 shows us both the method and the message. Note here that Paul and Silas go into town and look what happens. They reasoned from the scriptures. They just took the word of God.
Now all they had at that time was the Old Testament. They go among these Jews in the synagogue and they open up the scroll and they're like, let me show you what Isaiah says. Let me show you what Jeremiah says. Let me tell you what Moses said.
Let me show you Christ in the scriptures, the one who had to suffer die and be raised from the grave and how that Jesus is the very Christ that the scriptures point to. They opened and they alleged and they explained and they proclaimed and they simply preached the word of God and in doing so they showed people their sinful condition, their need for a Savior. The fact that Jesus' death is payment for sin and that his resurrection is the proof that we can have victory over death. Can I tell you this?
They called it in the realm of any gimmicks. He didn't use any entertainment. He simply proclaimed that Jesus died for sin and he rose again. That's the message.
It is Christ and Him crucified. Paul preached the gospel and when he did, see what happened in the scriptures? It says that there were some of those Jews who believed. They're in the synagogue.
They're in there following what they believe God wants them to do in terms of the temple and the Old Testament economy. But he's in there preaching the gospel and says, and some of them believed. And then it says this, and of the devout Greeks, that is proselytes, Greeks who had become Jewish. They're in there too.
They're like, how do we serve God? And they put their faith in Jesus. And then it says, and among the chief women, not a few. There was a lot of people whose lives were being changed as they understood that there was a pardon that they could receive.
There was light that was free to them. If they simply put their faith in their trust in the finished work of Jesus Christ and came to this understanding that he is the Son of God who robed himself in flesh died in their place, was buried and raised again. And they began believing. That's what I want you to see.
That he simply preached the word and people believed. Romans 10 says, how shall they believe without a preacher? And how shall they hear? How shall they believe?
If they have not heard, and how shall they hear without a preacher? Now that word, when you hear that, you think about this dude who's standing up in this pulpit. No matter fact, that's the title that we've given for years and years and years for the guy who is the pastor of a church that says, hey, he's my preacher. He's the preacher down there at that church.
He's the preacher. We're all the preacher. How shall they hear without a proclaimer? How shall they hear without somebody who's willing to open up and speak from their mouth the glorious gospel of Jesus Christ?
It's not the pastor, solely. It's all of us. We are called to tell the story of Jesus Christ. We're called to tell his story of death, burial and resurrection.
And we can tell our story of what he's done in our life and we can tell what their story can be. We are not responsible for saving anyone. But we are responsible for sharing the message. And when we do, Jesus does what only he can do and that is turn the world upside down.
And he listens, even if it's only one person that you share the gospel with who gets saved, Jesus will turn their world right side up. That's good. If the power hasn't changed, if the need hasn't changed, if the method and the message of preaching hasn't changed, then guess what? The responsibility hasn't changed either.
That responsibility belongs to us. We need to pray. We need to pray. We need to pray for revival in our own hearts.
We need to pray for God's power in His guidance. We need to pray that God would open up doors. We need to pray that hearts that are lost would be receptive to the gospel message. But can I tell you this at some point?
I'm telling you, we got to really pray. Why not pay lip service to it? We're going to pray about that. No, no, no.
I mean, we really do need to pray. But at some point we got to stop the praying. We got to start the doing. Look at Joshua, Joshua's down on his knees and he's praying and praying and praying and the angel Lord showed up to do it.
Stop praying. I heard you man. Chest up praying. You got to put some feet to your prayers.
You pray. Now it's time to get on it. We have to do pray. But at some point it's time to stop praying and start doing.
We got to act. There's a time to kneel and there's a time to go. We got to tell his story. We got to share our story and we can share what another story can be.
I'm saying we got to be intentional. I fully understand this that we're not going to reach everyone. But we can reach someone. And I want to challenge you today.
Start with someone. Right now, in your mind, who's someone? Just one. This week one person, one conversation, one opportunity.
You can pray about and you can put feet to your prayers and you can share the gospel this week because the same gospel that changed you can save them too. It's important. We've got to be intentional. Here's the bottom line of the message.
By sharing the gospel message we can still see Jesus turn the world upside down. From time when we preach the gospel, when we share the gospel, we can see Jesus turn the world upside down. So if we believe, if we believe the gospel, if we believe that Jesus is the world changer, the question is this, will we be his witness? I'm asking you, who are you praying for?
I just want me to go identify one person, one, just one. I'm asking you, who's the one? Who are you praying for? Who will you reach out to?
Who will you seek to reach this week? Who is the one that you will share his story with, your story, and what their story can be? This week will you make a simple commitment to do two things. One, pray for that one person for whom you can share the gospel this week.
Right now, maybe generic. I don't know. I can't see a face, but I can answer an opportunity. Or you may have a face, a name, a situation.
You're praying for that person and opportunity to share the gospel. Now, you may think right now, I don't know if I can do that. I'm going to tell you again. If you're saved, you know his story.
If you are saved, you know your story. If you are saved, you know what another story can be. However, on your phone, if you've got our app, if you will pull it out, if you will click on South Union's app, if you will pull it up, if you will go to the bottom of the page, to the far right hand corner, there is a tab that says more. If you will click on the more tab, it'll bring up five tabs.
I think right now one of those tabs says, share Jesus. If you will click on the share Jesus tab, you will find the entire presentation of shared Jesus without fear. You don't have to say anything. You simply read a question.
When you get down to question number five, you're going to ask the question, if what you believe were not true, would you want to know? And if the person says, no, Holy Spirit's not working, move along. But if you know that what they shared with you about eternity is wrong, and you ask them the question, if what you believe was wrong, would you want to know? And they're like, yeah, like if I'm wrong, I want to know where I'm going to spend eternity.
Awesome. Scroll up. First verse, Romans 3, 23. Scroll up.
Romans 6, 23. Scroll up. There's seven verses. You simply have them read the verse.
You don't have to say a word. You simply have them read the verse and ask the question, what does that say to you? If you read Romans 3, 23, and it says, we're all saying it comes short of the glory of God. If I'm reading it, you ask me what does that say, brother Chad.
I say, it says, everyone's saying it comes short of the glory of God. I guess that means I've sinned and come short of the glory of God. You got it. Next verse, Romans 6, 23.
The wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ. What does that say to you? And you just keep asking the question, what does that say to you until you understand that they fully understand what that verse says? There are seven verses that you work through.
There are five follow up questions. The last follow up question is, having heard all that you've heard today, are you willing to surrender your life to Jesus Christ today? Are you willing to receive him as your personal Savior? And if they say, yes, give him an opportunity to call on his name.
Because the Bible says that whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. The Bible says that if we confess with our mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in our heart, they God raised him from the dead, we will be saved. Now, it could be, should be, ought to be, might be, hoped so one day. No, you confess Christ, you believe in your heart that Jesus raised him from the dead.
That moment you will be saved. Born again, a saved. You don't have to have all the answers, but you have to be willing. The same Jesus who changed your life can change theirs too.
You can turn the world upside down. Ah, you can better turn the right side up. Now, if you're here today though, you've never put your faith, you're trusting Christ. I'm going to say it again, listen to me.
I just went through the gospel. I've talked about Jesus. I've talked about who he is, that he's the Son of God. He roped himself in place.
He came into this world. He lived the perfect life. He went through the cross. He died for your sin.
He died for mine. He was buried and raised again. But listen to me. Hearing the gospel is not enough.
And hearing about Jesus is not enough. You've got to be born again. Jesus said, Marvel not, that I say unto you, you must be born again. Nickodemus is not enough to hear that except a man be born again.
He cannot enter the kingdom of God. He's not going to be born again. He cannot see the kingdom of God. He cannot do more than hear.
You've got to receive the gift of Jesus Christ. You can't earn salvation. You can't work for it. You cannot deserve it.
But you can receive the gift of salvation. Beaches two, eight, nine, six, four, by grace are you saved through faith. And that not of yourselves is the gift of God, not of works, unless any man should boast. How do we get saved?
By grace. We're not good. We're not good enough. We don't deserve it.
We cannot earn it. We cannot merit it. We cannot do enough. For God to say, let me just grant salvation to you because you're so swell.
It doesn't work that way. We're not. That's why Jesus came into this world and took on our sin. He did for us what we cannot do for ourselves.
He was buried and raised again. So we're more than sure who Jesus is. And because he lives, we can live to John 1 verse 12 says, but as many as received him to them, gave the power to become the sons of God. Friends today, you can receive it.
By faith, you can receive salvation. One hundred percent, by grace. And if you will, he would change. He would change who you are.
He would change your eternal destiny. In Acts 17 they said these that have turned the world upside down. They've come here too. But the truth of the matter is that Jesus wasn't turning the world upside down.
that Jesus wasn't turning the world upside down. He was turning it right side up, and he still does it today. And the question, quite honestly, is not, can the world still be changed? The question is this, if you don't know Christ as your savior, then will you trust him today?
If you don't know Christ as your savior, will you allow him to change you today? Second question though, is to every person in this room who has saved, will you point someone this week to the world changer? This week, we could very well be accused of turning the world upside down. The question is, if you need to be saved, if you need to put your faith, your trust in the finished work of Christ, do it today.
As brother Randy comes, as we stand, we have a hymn of invitation, you're invited to this altar. Maybe you already have someone in mind, you've got the one. You've got the someone. You're gonna pray for them, you're gonna pray for an opportunity and you're gonna pray, God, give me the courage that I need to overcome every fear that I have.
I understand this, I can't have a win without a fight. I'm gonna face down my fears, I'm gonna trust you, and I'm gonna share Jesus this week. Maybe today though, you've already come to this understanding that you are the one who stands in need of a savior, that everything that Paul went into the Thessalonica, opening the scriptures alleging and showing that Jesus is the Christ who came and died was buried and risen again. You're like, you know what, he did that for me and I want to receive the free gift.
You can receive it right now. By putting your trust in Christ, call on him today. Prayers don't save us, but we demonstrate our faith when we call on Jesus, for whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord, shall be saved. Be safe today.
As we sing, this God's Holy Spirit speaks to your heart, you follow him today.