Not Ashamed of God's Gospel!

There is only one true gospel! That “one faith” that Paul spoke of. This one true gospel is something worth defending, something worth suffering persecution for and something worth separating for if it becomes necessary. In this age of generic religion, universalism, religious correctness and compromise, would to God that He would put it in some hearts to “earnestly contend for the faith once delivered to the saints” [JUDE 1:3]. That God would raise up a people that were more concerned for His glory and the glorious gospel of Christ than they were of offending the law and works mongers of this religious world. 

If we cannot distinguish between the true gospel and the false, then we only know the false. If we can receive without any difficulty as brethren those who undoubtedly neither know nor want to hear the gospel, then we are ourselves like them. Those we refer to as “Christian” show what we really believe is the basis for being a Christian. At Antioch where they were first called Christians, it was because they followed the teachings, the doctrine, of Christ.  They followed, believed, preached, and supported the only true gospel and separated themselves from those who didn’t.

Christ said whoever was ashamed of Him and His words before this wicked generation, He would be ashamed of them at His glorious coming. His words cannot be separated from Him who is the Word! May we be as Paul and "not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek. For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith” [ROMANS 1:16-17].

-copied