The Matthew 28:19 Project

I’ve been thinking a lot about Satan this week. As you know, Charlie Kirk, the founder and CEO of Turning Point USA, was executed last Wednesday. After reading social media comments, I realized that Satan has done an excellent job of deceiving a lot of people. I used to believe social media was ruining people’s minds, but now I understand it has a much more powerful influence. I can’t comprehend why anyone would celebrate the death of another person. How depraved must someone be to rejoice over the death of a man who was a husband, father, son, and friend? Satan has successfully deceived many because they believe everything they see in a meme, social media post, or TikTok video. Much of the information attributed to Charlie Kirk isn’t even accurate. A quick five-minute search on YouTube could have shown people that what they’ve heard, read, or watched was either completely false or taken out of context.

The media often labels Charlie Kirk as a political activist, but that’s only because they dislike what he truly represents. He was a Christian who was unashamed of Jesus, lived his life according to a Biblical viewpoint, and was fully committed to sharing the gospel of Jesus Christ. This man embodied everything the Matthew 28:19 Project stands for. He was spreading the gospel to the ends of the earth, and he was executed because someone disagreed with what he stood for.

In my Sunday school class, we’ve been studying spiritual warfare, and it could not be clearer that we are entrenched in spiritual warfare, and most people are blissfully unaware. Being a Christian isn’t easy, and we have a big target on our backs. The moment we stand up for Christ, Satan will attack with everything he’s got. I know Satan hates me, and he will do anything to silence me, but I refuse to let him win. I’m putting on the whole armor of God because I’m not backing down, and I will continue to spread the gospel of Jesus Christ. Satan is the prince of darkness, but I will show that Jesus is light.

I may be just one person, but I have God on my side, and my God is way more powerful than Satan. The song, Little is Much When God Is in it has been stuck in my head since Sunday’s sermon. My pastor has been taking us on a tour of the seven churches of Revelation. This week we visited the church in Philadelphia. They may have been small, but they were powerful! Want to know why they were powerful? Because God is powerful!

We serve a mighty God! He can take a small congregation or just a handful of people and do incredible things through them. He can take the death of one man and ignite a revival across the globe. The church in Philadelphia wasn’t large or powerful by the world’s standards, yet Jesus said in Revelation 3:8, “You have a little strength, have kept My word, and have not denied My name.” They may have been weak, but with God, they were strong. They discovered the truth we often forget: little is much when God is in it!

As much as I witnessed darkness this past week, I noticed something even greater. I saw light breaking through. I witnessed many people saying they were returning to church or had returned to God after drifting away. I saw numerous individuals standing up and boldly declaring that Jesus is their King. Even in our darkest moments, God remains present. As Kittie L. Suffield penned, “Does the place you’re called to labor seem too small and little known? It is great if God is in it, and He’ll not forget His own.”

And God has shown us this past week that He is so very much in it.

He can take a tragic event, like Charlie Kirk’s execution, and turn it into something inspiring. A revival has been underway on college campuses for a while, but now it’s spreading to communities nationwide. The hunger to know Jesus, to share about Jesus, and to be a witness for Jesus is alive in our neighborhoods, churches, and hearts.

As Paul reminds us in 2 Corinthians 12:9, God’s grace is sufficient, and His strength is perfected in weakness. That means it doesn’t matter if you’re tall or short, blind or deaf, introverted or outgoing—God can use you. God’s strength surpasses anything the Devil or any human can throw at you. Little is much when God is in it.