ROMANS 1:16 – 1

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It is totally unreasonable to be ashamed of Jesus Christ or of His Gospel message. A “Christian” who is ashamed of Jesus Christ is like a patient who is ashamed of a doctor who has saved his life. He is like a sky diver who is ashamed of the parachute which saved his life by lowering him gently to the ground. A “Christian” who is ashamed of Jesus Christ is like a soldier in combat who is ashamed of his rifle which saved him from the enemy that was trying to kill him. He is like a man ashamed of his best friend who ran into a burning building to save him from certain death.

 

A “Christian” who is ashamed of Christ has very little concept of who Jesus is. Jesus Christ is the Creator of all things, both material and spiritual. As the Bible tells us in Colossians 1:16, “For by Him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by Him and for Him…” That includes the vast expanse of galaxies in outer space that we cannot see the end of, even with the most powerful of telescopes. That includes the tiniest of microbes, too small to be seen without a powerful microscope, yet each one with tiny organic parts and tissues functioning together perfectly. That also includes a much greater and eternal spiritual universe which is invisible to us who dwell in the material universe.

 

A “Christian” who is ashamed of Jesus has very little concept of what Christ has done for him. As the Bible says in Romans 5:6, “For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly.” Every one of us has sinned and rebelled against the God who created us. We all deserve the worst punishment that God could give us. We were being swept helplessly toward the judgment throne of God, who knows all our secrets, there to be condemned, without excuse, to eternal torment in the lake of fire without hope or mercy. But Jesus Christ intervened for us. He was the only one who could do it. He didn’t have to come into the world at all. It’s not as though He owed us anything. When He, being totally innocent, was arrested, he could have called on God His Father for more than twelve legions of angles to destroy the world and free Him. But Jesus did nothing to defend Himself. Jesus hadn’t come into the world to save Himself. He had come to save us. And the only way Christ could save us was by submitting Himself to the cruelest possible torture and death, making Himself a blood sacrifice for our sins. Should we be ashamed of the God who suffered our hell for us?

 

In Mark 8:38 Jesus said, “Whosoever therefore shall be ashamed of Me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation; of him also shall the Son of man be ashamed, when He cometh in glory of His Father with the holy angels.” If a “Christian” is embarrassed about Jesus Christ and His Gospel, it is because he is more concerned about what the people around think of him. But when we stand before the throne of Jesus Christ on judgment day, it won’t matter what anybody else thinks of us. What will matter is whether or not we used the opportunities that God gives us during our lives to share the Gospel of the salvation of Jesus Christ with others.

 
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