Sharing Jesus or hiding Jesus?

Sharing Jesus or hiding Jesus?

Are we ashamed of Jesus when we are among other people? Are we afraid to let our love for Jesus to be displayed before other people? Maybe we just want to worship Jesus in the Church House. Maybe we feel that talking about religion is the wrong subject among people. Are we blinded toward the lost souls and the plan of salvation that God gave to humanity? Did we forget that we are to pick up our cross and the sword of His Word and spread the gospel of Jesus Christ? Maybe our love and zeal for Jesus has just faded away.

Have you ever heard a believer say, “Life can be very busy, and it seems that time is swiftly passing by? There are so much to do, from my job, to my house and my family. There just not enough hours within a day. I don’t have time to share Jesus with anyone and even going to Church is a task. Life is just too busy”. The sad part about this excuse is that one day we will take time to die and then the judgment. When we allow the things of this world to replace our desire to serve the Lord Jesus Christ and share and spread the Gospel of Jesus Christ, then Satan has won a victory over the believers.

We should be sharing Jesus with the lost and not hiding Jesus. Are we so neglectful in bearing the good fruits of the Gospel of Jesus? Can we tell others what Jesus has done for us, can we? In Luke 8:38-40, there was a man who was held by the power of demons and Jesus cast them out of him. He wanted to go with Jesus, but Jesus said, “Return to thine own house, and shew how great things God hath done unto thee. And he went his way and published throughout the whole city how great things Jesus had done unto him”. Gadarenes or Gadara is part of a league of "ten cities called Decapolis. Jesus was rejected on his first visit but after this man went forth and began to testify about what Jesus has done for him then the results were displayed on the next visit of Jesus, “And it came to pass, that, when Jesus was returned, the people gladly received him: for they were all waiting for him”.

Let us remember what Jesus did because Jesus went forth and preached the Kingdom of God. Matthew 4:23, “And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all manner of sickness and all manner of disease among the people”. Let the believers proclaim Jesus to the lost souls and let the believers have compassion on the sinners and lead them to Jesus. The time is getting closer to the day that the Antichrist or the Beast from the sea will appear. Where are the believers who are warning this world of the Wrath of God that is to come? In Matthew 9:36-38, “But when he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion on them, because they fainted, and were scattered abroad, as sheep having no shepherd. Then saith he unto his disciples, The harvest truly is plenteous, but the labourers are few; Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he will send forth labourers into his harvest”. Are we working in the harvest? Are we leading the lost souls into the pathway of salvation? If not, then why?

Have we replaced the love of Jesus with the things in this world? Are we allowing our social life, friends, and family to come between us and the Lord Jesus Christ? Remember what is written in Matthew 7:6, “Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you”. Hold fast to the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Turn from the pleasures of this world and be renewed in the Spirit of God. Be not ashamed of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Tell the lost souls about Jesus. Tell the sinner what Jesus has done for you.

Become a worker in the harvest for lost souls.

Stand in front of the Cross of Calvary and proclaim what Jesus can do for the lost souls. Stand and hold the Sword of His Word high and proclaim the power that is in the name of Jesus Christ. Remember what Paul said in Romans 1:16, “For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to everyone that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek”.

If not, then remember what is written in Mark 8:38, “Whosoever therefore shall be ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation; of him also shall the Son of man be ashamed, when he cometh in the glory of his Father with the holy angels”.