I Am Not Ashamed of the Gospel

It's no secret that the gospel of Jesus Christ is not a popular one. Following Jesus requires submitting your will to God's will. We also live in a culture where you can believe whatever you want to believe as long as you don't try to put your beliefs on someone else. Jesus brought an offensive truth when he came to Earth. He revealed all the careful crafting we put in to making our lives appear holy, as empty, because our hearts are dark and do not seek Him. He upped the standard to a heart level. Jesus exposed religion as an institution of slavery. Needless to say people don't like the gospel because it points out a simple well known fact. We are sinners. People become Christians, however. Why? Because Jesus is the most real, loving, and worthy person there has ever been. Jesus actually cares about people and wants to love them and heal their hurts, and for some strange reason beyond my comprehension He chose Christians to demonstrate this to all the world. It's our job to bring the gospel to a world that desperately needs Him. As I said before it's not a popular gospel, but it is our job to tell it as Jesus lived it. It's not our job to change it to make it more culturally acceptable because we don't want to offend anyone. We cannot be ashamed of the life Jesus Christ lived. Jesus did not call us to blend in to the culture we live in. We are an alien race that is part of a Heavenly Kingdom, and we have a King whose authority we are under. Jesus said if you deny me before men I will deny you before my Father who is in Heaven. Is that really something that you are willing to risk just because you don't want to offend someone, or you want to fit into a crowd that will never love you or accept you the way Jesus does? This is something that we as Christians have to prepare for everyday that we step outside of our house. We take Jesus' message of love to a sick and dying world that hates Him because that is their nature. They don't know how to love God and even if they did they wouldn't chose to because they have instead chosen to follow in the footsteps of their father Adam in sin. They need Jesus to come into their lives and give them a new heart. They need a heart that seeks and loves Him. How will this happen unless we tell them about Jesus? We are either going to offend man or we are going to offend God. God wins. When it's all over every knee will bow before him and every tongue will confess that he is Lord, but unfortunately for some it will be too late. Let us proudly bear the name of Jesus Christ to the world. He was a homeless carpenter who was thrown out of his hometown, betrayed by one of his closest friends, deserted by all of his followers, rejected by his own Father, and murdered for the sins of the world. Praise be to Him who endured all things. I am not ashamed.