Don't be ashamed of the gospel

Although it is difficult at this time to speak the Truth, to confess the Name and the Word of Jesus Christ before men, it is essential to do so. Jesus tells us that we will be hated by all because of his Name, but whoever endures to the end will be saved (Matthew 10:22). This is why we must be armed with the thought of being rejected, hated, insulted and possibly even abused because of the Word of God. But we must love, bless, pray for our enemies; and if we are not established by prayer and by the Word of God we will not stand, for we must be ready to forgive directly and to truly love even our enemies (Matthew 5: 43-48).

This world will reject us more and more because of the Name of Jesus that we bear as a witness, but as Paul says, if we want to please men we cannot be servants of Christ. Whoever wants to save his life by protecting it by himself, by refusing to proclaim the Gospel and to share in the sufferings of Christ, will lose his life; but whoever loses his life for the Love of Christ and the Gospel will save it. What if you protect your life by refusing to tell the Truth and win everyone over, but lose your soul, what's the point? If God makes it easy for you to speak up, although you know you will be despised, hate, rejected, DO IT. For whoever is ashamed of Jesus Christ, ashamed of his God, will not be saved:

"For whoever wants to save his life, will lose it; but whoever loses his life for the sake of me and the Gospel, that one will save it. For what good is it for a man to gain everyone, s' What would man give in exchange for his life? For whosoever shall be ashamed of me and of my words in the midst of this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of man shall also be ashamed of him, when he cometh surrounded by the glory of his Father with the holy angels. " (Mark 8: 35-38)

"Whosoever therefore shall confess me before men, him also will I confess before my Father who is in heaven. But whosoever shall deny me before men, him also will I deny before my Father who is in heaven. Do not believe that I have come. to bring peace on earth; I am not come to bring peace, but the sword. " (Matthew 10: 32-34)

Many called perish for fear of confessing Christ, out of shame in speaking the Truth, out of love for their own lives (John 12: 42-43). But if you love your own life more than God you cannot follow Jesus and be his disciple. The law of Christ which is beneficial to all men is to love God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and your neighbor as himself (Matthew 22: 37-40). If you love God you do his will and if you love your neighbor you are not in human feelings, but you tell him the hard truth to hear in order to hope for his salvation. If you love your child, you accept that he suffers when you deny him something bad for him, because you think about the consequences; well it's the same thing, you know that if you tell the Truth to a man it can hurt him, but if he then questions himself, it can save his soul (2 Corinthians 7: 8-12).

"For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, seeing that it is the power of God for the salvation of all who believe" (Romans 1:16)

You must always accompany your preaching with a life of prayer, in order to have a relationship with God, to be filled with his Spirit, with his Love, and to intercede for souls. Because you can preach the same thing, but if you don't have an intimate relationship with God, you will be like a sounding cup.
But if you have this life of prayer and you pray to God every day to sanctify you, to make you an instrument of his glory, to make you a vessel of honor, sanctified and useful to his Master, may he fill you with his Spirit, his virtues, his gifts, not for your glory but only for his, not to captivate souls but to bring them back before God; if you surrender your life to him as a temple so that he can inhabit it fully and as many souls as possible be saved through you, then you will see results.
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