Justin Peters Open-Air Preaching at Mars Hill

About this sermon

In 2017 on a trip to Greece I had an opportunity to open-air preach at Mars Hill. I took my Bible and opened up to Acts 17, the record of the Apostle Paul preaching at that very spot, and began to preach. At around the 6 minute mark you will begin to hear a creepy whisper. No one could tell where it was coming from. At about the 7:25 mark you'll see a young woman walk behind me. We found out later that she was whispering the names of Greeks gods into a speaker that she had pointed at me. We were later told by some police officers at the scene that what she was doing was quite deliberate. She did not like the fact that I was preaching and she tried to stop it. Everyone in our group agreed that it was quite demonic in nature. The officers said they had seen her before but it had been two years since they last saw her and yet she just happened to show up again on the exact day and exact time I began to preach. By God's grace alone I was able to stay on task despite efforts to stop the proclamation of God's word. I have no way of knowing if anyone's heart was opened to the Gospel that day but I rest in knowing that His word never returns to him void (Isaiah 55:11).