Stand Up for Jesus Part 1

Have you ever heard of a kid saying mommy several times or a kid saying I want a toy several times? For parents, this is something you hear all the time.  Where is God today? He is not some ancient thing or person that no longer is important or dead. Jesus is just alive today as he was back in the days of the Bible. And he saith unto them, Be not amazed: ye seek Jesus, the Nazarene, who hath been crucified: he is risen; he is not here: behold, the place where they laid him! Mark 16:6 ASV. Jesus is alive!!! I will say again Jesus is alive!!!! Again, I say Jesus is alive!!!!  In a nation that no longer wants Jesus but sin. I will stand for and in the midst of Jesus.  I will stand for standing for Jesus no matter what comes. I will glorify the name of Jesus in the midst of it all. 

But what does the bible say on this subject? Let's take a look...

And calling the crowd to him with his disciples, he said to them, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake and the gospel's will save it. For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his soul? For what can a man give in return for his soul? For whoever is ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, of him will the Son of Man also be ashamed when he comes in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.” Mark 8:34-38 ESV.

To stand up for Jesus, we must deny ourselves and pick up our cross. We need to lose our life for Jesus' sake and the gospel's life will be saved.

Therefore, as you received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in him, rooted and built up in him and established in the faith, just as you were taught, abounding in thanksgiving. See to it that no one takes you captive by philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the elemental spirits of the world, and not according to Christ. Colossians 2:6-8 ESV.

To stand up for Jesus we need to walk rooted and built up in Jesus and have faith that is established by teaching. Anything that is not according to Christ we need to not pay attention to.

Yet if anyone suffers as a Christian, let him not be ashamed, but let him glorify God in that name. 1 Peter 4:16 ESV.

We need to not be ashamed of Jesus and the Gospel. For we will all suffer as Christians.

Continued tomorrow...