Turn the World Upside Down

     When big things happen in our society, whether it's the birth of a royal baby, or a devestating earthquake, it shakes the world. We hear about it all over the place. It affects people and motivates them toward change. I was recently listening to a lecture and the pastor gave us a challenge - to turn the world upside down with the gospel. Back in Jesus' time, most people probably had heard about Jesus and His miracles, but only a few got to really know Him on a personal and intimate level. But we are so blessed to be living in the Church age, where we can have 24/7 access to God, we can go bodly to His throne. We are endwelt with the Holy Spirit at the time of salvation, and we have the completed Word of God. There has never been and will never be a time where we don't have the presence of God in our lives. There are so many amazing benefits we have today as being children of God. There is a lost and dying world right outside my dorm room, and I have the message of hope that could offer them an eternity with Jesus. WHY ISN'T THE GOSPEL TURNING THE WORLD UPSIDE DOWN?

      It's no secret that the United States is in a downward decline - not only socially and economically but what used to be a moral country founded on Christian pricipal is becoming more corrupted as the days go by. If you have questions on the beliefs of our founding fathers, go ahead and check out http://www.history.org/almanack/life/politics/giveme.cfm. Benjamin Franklin said this, "As to Jesus of Nazareth, my opinion of whom you particularly desire, I think the system of morals and his religion, as he left them to us, is the best the world ever saw, or is likely to see;" It is so clear that the very men who founded this country and made it to be the great nation that it is, accredited their success and their liberty to GOD. Why then, I ask, do we simply sit here and allow our society to intimidate us into believing that our message of salvation isn't worth sharing?

     Things like celebrities getting pregnant or divorced won't matter in eternity. Who cares if that big sports team won whatever big sports event, when there is a lost world out there? People are dying every second with no hope, not knowing where they will spend eternity. People don't like to think about the "afterlife" because the here and now seems so glorious and romantic. It is our job, Christians, to get out there and BODLY share the message of truth. Jesus Christ came as a perfect baby to suffer the cross, be beaten and marred beyond human recognition, for you, and He rose again on the third day. There is nothing we can do to get us into Heaven, and there's nothing we can do to lose the salvation we have. This simple gospel message is true whether someone believes it or not, denying Jesus doesn't make Him any less real. So I ask, what are you afraid of? When people reject the gospel, they are rejecting Jesus, not His messenger. 
     It's time we as Christians get up and turn the world upside down for Christ, before we lose the freedom to do so. Look at men like the Apostle Paul, who truly did go through horrible persecution that we may never face because of the gospel. We are not in jail and we are not being stoned. We may have to suffer a bad look or a rude curse word, but that's nothing in comparison to His struggles as a servant of Jesus. It takes 3 seconds to hand the cashier a tract and give them the message of hope for eternity, and less than a minute to quote to someone Ephesians 2:8-9. So I ask you, are you willing to turn the world upside down for the cause of Christ?

                                                                            Stay excellent!