Something inevitable happens when the good news liberates people from their bondage

The profits of their masters dry up and the masters cry out.

If God's people are bringing liberation to the lives of people, powers that be and industries of oppressive commerce will declare, "These men … are disturbing our city."

They will hurl insults and ethnic slurs.

They will call the prophetic word and its demonstration unlawful.

And they will be correct …. hopefully.

They may even cast the messengers of good news into prison.

"But when her owners saw that their hope of gain was gone, they seized Paul and Silas and dragged them into the marketplace before the rulers. And when they had brought them to the magistrates, they said, “These men are Jews, and they are disturbing our city."