The Signs of the Times: Part 1

• Matthew 4:23
  
    23 Jesus went throughout Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the good news of the kingdom, and healing every disease and sickness among the people.
  
  

When the Gospel is preached there will be either a reaction or a response.

A reaction could be like the one when Paul preached and a riot broke out:

• Acts 17:2-9
  
     2 Then Paul, as his custom was, went in to them, and for three Sabbaths reasoned with them from the Scriptures,
  
    3 explaining and demonstrating that the Christ had to suffer and rise again from the dead, and saying, "This Jesus whom I preach to you is the Christ."
  
     4 And some of them were persuaded; and a great multitude of the devout Greeks, and not a few of the leading women, joined Paul and Silas.
  
  5 But the Jews who were not persuaded, becoming envious, took some of the evil men from the marketplace, and gathering a mob, set all the city in an uproar and attacked the house of Jason, and sought to bring them out to the people.
  
     6 But when they did not find them, they dragged Jason and some brethren to the rulers of the city, crying out, "These who have turned the world upside down have come here too.
  
     7 Jason has harbored them, and these are all acting contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying there is another king — Jesus." 8 And they troubled the crowd and the rulers of the city when they heard these things.
  
  

Even the unrighteous declared that the message of Jesus Christ as king of Gods kingdom had turned the world upside down.

That is exactly what this message will do.  But actually, it turns the world right side up.  Man cannot change his state with God on his own.

The message of the kingdom is a message of hope for the hopeless, deliverance for the bound, healing for the sick, joy for the brokenhearted.

• Romans 14:17
  
    17 For the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking, but of righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Spirit
  
  

To be continued.

Be Blessed!

Pastor Dave