I‘m not Ashamed Of the GOSPEL

<p>For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.</p> <p>Today I will take the “gospel of God” and our praises of God and go to the streets. I will walk and sing and pray and shout our faith and our love to all who will listen — which will raise for many the question: Am I ashamed to do this? no, I'm not ASHAMED.</p> ‘I Am Not Ashamed of the Gospel of Christ’ <p>The Apostle Paul loved and valued the Gospel. He could truthfully say, ‘I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord’. There was nothing in this life, nothing in this world, nothing in creation, to be compared to the Gospel of Christ. Paul knew this and he preached the Gospel of Christ, not a gospel of man, nor a half gospel, but the whole counsel of God as revealed in the Scriptures.</p> <p>The result was that he was never ashamed of his faith in Christ. He was not ashamed of it when he was among his own countrymen and their religious leaders who were furiously opposed to the crucified Saviour: ‘And straightway he preached Christ in the synagogues, that he is the Son of God’ (<a href='http://bib.ly/Ac9.20'>Acts 9:20</a>). He was not ashamed at Athens where the Greek intellectuals and philosophers mocked the teaching of the Gospel concerning the resurrection. He was not ashamed of the Gospel at Rome where he met the wealthy and the powerful of this world. There were many things in these places which could have made him ashamed of the Gospel. There was the prejudice of the Jews, the pride of the Gentiles, and the contempt of the Greeks. Paul held fast his faith in Christ, before them all. We read in the Scriptures of the Lord saying to His people: ‘Ye are my witnesses’. Every believer is a witness to the work of the Holy Spirit and to the power of the Gospel in their lives.</p>