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For I am Not Ashamed of the Gospel

Posted by appolus on May 7, 2026

For I Am Not Ashamed Of The Gospel Of Jesus Christ.

When Peter the Apostle stood before the crowd after being filled with the Holy Spirit, how did he preach? Did he not declare that they had crucified the Christ? And were they not cut to the heart when they heard it?

And what of Stephen? When he addressed the religious leaders, did he soften his words, or did he call them stiff-necked, resisting the Holy Spirit? We know how it ended for him and for Paul the Apostle as well.

Paul himself said he was not ashamed of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, because it is the power of God unto salvation. So the real question is this: what is the Gospel? The whole Gospel, not just the parts that carry no offense.

The cross is an offense to those who are perishing. The Gospel confronts those who remain in their sins. When truth is spoken, it pierces the heart. If it does not, then perhaps what is being preached has been stripped of the weight and guilt of Calvary.

It may be that part of the weakness we see in the church today, particularly in places like Britain, comes from generations raised to avoid offense at all costs. A faith that fears offending anyone, even when truth is at stake, becomes hollow.

At the very center of the Gospel are the words of Jesus:
“I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.”

There is no way to present that truth without it offending a world set against it.

Now, if a man speaks simply to offend, his heart is wrong. But if there is a fire within him, lit by God Himself, then he must speak. And if that truth unsettles, if it troubles the comfortable, then so be it.

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The voice of one crying in the wilderness

Posted by appolus on September 16, 2013

IN Matthew 3 the Scriptures identifies John the Baptist as the one crying in the wilderness from Isa 40:3 The voice of him who cries in the wilderness, Prepare the way of Jehovah, make straight a highway in the desert for our God.

I this passage Isaiah is first of all speaking to those who dwelt in exile in Babylon. The message was to them and more specifically to those who would return to the heart of God and leave the world behind. The vast majority of exiles did not return to Jerusalem when they were free to but chose instead to continue to live in exile in a place where they had grown comfortable.

Decades before they had been taken captive by the Babylonians at the hand of God in judgement. Now, when their opportunity came to leave, by staying they were proving that their hearts had been taken captive by the Babylonian system and way of life. God’s judgment always brings to light the true state of the heart. The very fact that they chose to stay, highlighted why they had been allowed to be taken captive in the first place. Men so often praise the Lord with their lips but their hearts belong to another.

Now Isaiah is speaking prophetically i this passage not only of the exiles but also of John the Baptist. Mat 3:3 For this is he who was spoken of by the prophet Isaiah, saying, “The voice of one crying in the wilderness: Prepare the way of the Lord, make His paths straight.” Now John has also been called to speak to a people in exile. A people who have been cut off from God despite the fact that they were not in physical exile from Jerusalem and the temple but were in exile from the presence of God. The very system and temple that had been designed to worship God and be a dwelling place, a place for God to inhabit, had become devoid of His presence. This was a judgement to bring to light the true state of the heart.

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