1 John 2:22-23 – 22 Who is the liar? It is whoever denies that Jesus is the Christ. Such a person is the antichrist—denying the Father and the Son. 23 No one who denies the Son has the Father; whoever acknowledges the Son has the Father also.
Acts 5:42 – Day after day, in the temple courts and from house to house, they never stopped teaching and proclaiming the good news that Jesus is the Messiah.
Acts 17:3 – 3 explaining and proving that the Messiah had to suffer and rise from the dead. “This Jesus I am proclaiming to you is the Messiah,” he said.
Acts 4:12 – Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to mankind by which we must be saved.
We have the great privilege and honor of bearing the name of our Savior and Lord Jesus Christ. We are called to passionately defend His name and the fact that He is the Messiah. It should burn in our hearts to share the Gospel message with all who would listen. The world wants to shut us up, to stop us from sharing that there is only one way to heaven and that is through Jesus (John 14:6). But we who love Jesus have a burning, pulsing desire in our hearts and souls to speak the great thing that God has done. We are like Peter and John who declared “Which is right in God’s eyes: to listen to you, or to him? You be the judges! As for us, we cannot help speaking about what we have seen and heard” Acts 4:19. The threats made against them could not stop them. Nothing that man, or the devil, has done to stop the church has ever worked. They have ridiculed, imprisoned, beaten, tortured and killed countless saints and they could not diminish the fire of their love and passion for Jesus. Take my life on earth if you must, I will never renounce Jesus. If you must take all that I have…take it then, go ahead, but you can never separate me from Jesus. Rightly Missionary Jim Elliot said “He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.” Subsequently, he lived out what he proclaimed. Only a fool or a crazed person would jump from safety into a fire. We have been saved and are being kept by Jesus. Family we will forever be safe in Jesus as we walk in love for him and appreciation of Him.
In the world there are many voices who want to shout us down. They work actively in courts and in every media to push Jesus out from the world. This will never happen. God always has a remnant.
The most heinous lie that could be proclaimed is the one that claims that Jesus is not exactly who He said He was. The name of Jesus is attacked on all sides. Some cults claim they are not Christian, but deny whom Jesus revealed that He is. Atheists deny Him. False religions deny Him. The Word is not weak in describing these people, it says they are liars. Not only are they liars but they are agents of the devil. Family, this is not an exaggeration! Even if it be someone from my family whom I love so much, if that person were to say that Jesus is not exactly who Jesus taught us He is, then that family member of mine is spreading lies and is acting on behalf of the father of all lies (John 8:44), whether they know it or not. Jesus said that one can only be for Him or against him. We either draw people to Him or we work with the enemy to scatter people from Him (Luke 11:33). There are not exceptions. No matter how dear a person may be to us we must agree with the Word of God, the person who denies that Jesus is the Christ is a liar and an agent of the enemy, whether they know it or not. God is not in such a person, they do not know God. Their statement that they are “spiritual” in their own way, or that they know God “in their own way” is a lie. Everyone and anyone who denies that only Jesus is the Messiah is spreading lies that begin in the heart and mind of the devil.
I will not soft pedal the truth. I will not try to make such people feel good and leave them in their lie. How hateful that would be.
Jesus is the Messiah. There is no other! Jesus is Lord. There is no other! We must rise up in defense of the Gospel. We must not shrink back from our duty to the Lord. He did not shrink back in completing His work on our behalf. Let us be firm in our minds and resolute in our will that we will never embrace the lies of the world that oppose who Jesus is. He is our hope and our salvation. Family, we stand with Jesus. We could do nothing else. That is what burns within. If we are not passionate about this, we need to repent on our knees before Jesus (Revelation 2:4-5). We need to get that fire back. Or be in very grave danger.
Praise our Savior and Lord Jesus who has saved us and keeps us. We are called to believe. We are called to embrace the full work that Jesus did for us. Then we are called to go to all the world, stand for Jesus, and to make disciples for Him. If the fire burns, if our calling matters more to us than our fears or other concerns, we will do so. Faith without works is dead (James 2:17). Let us walk and talk as Jesus has called us. It is our reasonable act of love to God. And He who loves us will keep us. Praise God!
Psalm 150:6 – Let everything that has breath praise the Lord. Praise the Lord!
Micah 7:7 – But as for me, I watch in hope for the Lord, I wait for God my Savior; my God will hear me.
Micah 6:8 – He has shown You, O man, what is good; And what does the Lord require of You but to do justly, to love mercy, And to walk humbly with Your God.