A Heart Ablaze (3)

UnAshamedly Yours.

Matthew 6:33 & 2 Samuel 22:30-50

A Heart Ablaxe - UnAshamedly Your

We unashamedly standly and declare allegiance and association with many causes. The will cme and go perhaps no or little benefit to us.

It is important friends that we stand and be counted for the one who matters.

Be unashamedly His means: Putting His Kingdom First –

Matthew 6:33 - 33 But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.

· Having Faith

· Trusing Him completely

· Obeying Him with all your heart

· Defending the Truth and Preaching crucified for the world to hear. The Gosple was never meant for private consumption. It was and is for the whole world to hear.

Jesus Christ is the crucified and risen Lord and Savior, then this is what we must now do: repent, put our faith in him, trust His Spirit for the power to live in a new way with a new community of Christians.

Preach the gospel of the crucified Christ and when challenged let the Spirit of Revelation speak through.

2 Timothy 3:12 ESV

Indeed, all who desire to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted,

Says that Christians who take a stand for Christ WILL BE persecuted. Anytime you raise a flag for God, you will be targeted by the wicked.

We must do and preach. We must embody Christ.

Our culture today hates the Name of Jesus. They don’t want it mentioned in public prayer (the same individual who sued me when I gave the invocation for President Bush in 2001 sued again to try and stop the inaugural prayer this January).

In our pluralistic, tolerant age, the mere mention of Jesus Christ as “the way, the truth and the life” (John 14:6) is an affront. In an era of inclusiveness, where all faiths must be equally acceptable, the exclusive claims of the Gospel are considered intellectually and morally offensive. What can we do?

We begin with prayer and repentance. We first examine ourselves and come to the Lord in true humility. “If My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land” (2 Chronicles 7:14, NKJV). We are God’s people, and since He is holy, we are to be holy as well.

Matthew 25:1-13

We often use the parable of the we of the 10 virgins too indicates the readiness of the heart of the believer as we await the coming of our Lord but I also read on something through this passage the virgins were unashamed to wait outside in the dirt for Jesus.

They were willing to be dirty they were willing to be unashamedly seen as desperately waiting for him unfortunately of course we also come to the point when we realised that five of them did not have enough oil in their lamps.

Brothers and sisters it is not enough that we go out for Jesus and we declare Jesus I'm wearing ashamedly his in fact and word and insult. We must stand out for Christ in everyway.

Our hearts also have to be continually ready. We must not take the grace of God for granted.

Matthew 22-3-9

3 He sent his servants to those who had been invited to the banquet to tell them to come, but they refused to come.

4 “Then he sent some more servants and said, ‘Tell those who have been invited that I have prepared my dinner: My oxen and fattened cattle have been butchered, and everything is ready. Come to the wedding banquet.’

5 “But they paid no attention and went off—one to his field, another to his business. 6 The rest seized his servants, mistreated them and killed them. 7 The king was enraged. He sent his army and destroyed those murderers and burned their city.

8 “Then he said to his servants, ‘The wedding banquet is ready, but those I invited did not deserve to come. 9 So go to the street corners and invite to the banquet anyone you find.’

The Lord in also continue to bless, defend and deliver us.

2 Samuel 22:30-50