Romans chapter 1. Romans chapter 1. We'll be looking
at two verses this morning. Verse 16 and verse 17. And I've entitled this message
in the form of a question. It is a question of vital importance
to everyone who professes to believe in Christ. To every one
of us who claim to be in Christ, this is an important question.
Are you ashamed of the gospel? Are you ashamed of the gospel? Paul said this, I am not ashamed. I am not ashamed of what? 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. Four, therein is the righteousness
of God. What? In the gospel of Christ. In the gospel of Christ is a
revelation. It is a revelation of what? The righteousness of God. How is it received? From faith
to faith as it is written. The just shall live by faith. Now the Apostle Paul, consider
him for a minute. The Apostle Paul, after having
suffered great persecution in every place, being half beaten
to death, brought before the Sanhedrin, accused, falsely accused,
brought before Felix and Festus and Agrippa, falsely accused,
jailed, imprisoned. with no evidence of wrongdoing. He was put under Roman guard
and now he was sent to Caesar to be tried in the court of Caesar
and eventually to lose his life. For what purpose was all this
persecution? Why did he suffer such hatred
of men and persecution? One reason. He preached the gospel
of Jesus Christ. This was the reason for his persecution. So now, he had been brought to
Rome. He had been brought to Rome and
tried, going to be tried under Caesar's court. And you know
why he was so willingly to come to Rome is because Christ told
him, you must preach the gospel before Caesar. And so Paul writes now to these
saints being under guard, being in prison, waiting for his trial. What is his desire? What is his
longing? What is his hope? What is his
heart's desire? He said this to these Romans.
He said, I am ready. I desire. Look at verse 15. He
says, as much as is in me. He said, as much as is in me,
with all my soul, with all my heart, I have this desire. I
am ready to preach the gospel to you. Although I've suffered,
although I'm persecuted, although I will die and go to my death,
this is still my longing desire to preach the gospel. None of
those sufferings, persecutions, not even the looming court of
Caesar would move his heart from preaching the gospel. So what
does Paul say? I am not ashamed. I'm not ashamed
to be in jail for this. I'm not ashamed to be persecuted
for this. I'm not ashamed. You remember when Paul was leaving
Ephesus. Go back to Acts chapter 20. Hold
your place here. Paul was leaving Ephesus. Go
to Acts chapter 20 and verse 18. Last time Paul was going
to see these elders and they gathered together. In verse 18 he said, when they
were come to him, he said to them, you know this. You know. from the first day that I came
into Asia after what manner I have been with you at all seasons."
Now what did they know? Serving the Lord with humility
of mind and with many tears and temptations which befell me by
the lying in wait of the Jews, you know how I kept back nothing
from you that was profitable. but have showed you and have
taught you." How? How did he do it? Privately?
Secretly? Under cover of night? No. Publicly. From house to house. What was he doing publicly? Testifying
both to the Jews and also to the Greeks' repentance toward
God and faith toward Christ Jesus, our Lord Jesus Christ. And now,
behold, I go bound in the Spirit into Jerusalem, not knowing the
things that shall befall me there, save this, that the Holy Ghost
witnesses in every city, saying this, that bonds and afflictions
abide me." Now listen, if you were able,
like Paul, to hear such things, consider this, if you come to
church this morning, they'll haul you away. You heard that
this morning. Somehow God prophesied and you
were able to hear. If you worship this morning,
they will haul you away in chains. What's the first thing we would
do? The first thing we would do is consider, how in the world
am I going to escape this? Surely we would say, well, I'm
just going to stay home today. I won't go. What did Paul say? But none of these things move
me. Neither count I my life dear
unto myself, that I may finish my course with joy. And the ministry
which I have received of the Lord Jesus to do what? To testify. of the gospel of the grace of
God. Paul said, nothing is going to
move me from my mission. Nothing is going to stop me.
I count not my own life dear unto me. I must preach the gospel. Nothing matters but to testify
of the gospel of God's grace. Friends, this is what it is not
to be ashamed of the gospel. You want to know in a nutshell,
that's what it is, that we do not count our own lives dear
to ourselves. We have one purpose, and that
is to hear, to preach, to further the gospel of Jesus Christ in
this world. That's what we're here for. May this be the longing heart,
then, of every man called to preach the gospel and every believer
called to witness it." This should be everyone's heart, not just
the apostle's heart, not just the preacher's heart. This should
be everyone who is not ashamed of the gospel of Jesus Christ. Now, there are some in Paul's
day who were ashamed. of the gospel of Christ. They
saw Paul going away in chains. They saw how he was being treated.
They saw the affliction that abided everyone who preached
the gospel. And what did they do? They hid
themselves. They hid themselves. Some feared
that if they preached the gospel, they would suffer the same things
as Paul. So this is why Paul wrote this
to Timothy. I'm going to read it to you.
You can go back to your text. But Paul said this to Timothy. He said,
Be not therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me, his prisoner. But be thou a partaker of the
afflictions of the gospel." Don't you know what it costs
to preach and hear and believe this gospel? Afflictions. We were in the messages this
weekend. One of the pastors was preaching
from, I think it was Don, was preaching from the disciples
in the storm. And Christ was in that hindered
part of the ship and they were afraid. He made this point, it
was very clear. Do you realize who led them into
that storm? Christ said, let us go over.
It was Christ who led them in that storm. It was Christ who
made the storm. And so it is with us when we
preach the gospel. Friend, he's leading us into
a storm. There's afflictions about us in every place when
we preach this gospel. We should be aware of that. So
that when they come, we should be willing partakers. That's
my lot. That's your lot. We should be
willing partakers in this. We should preach the Word and
not be ashamed of the Gospel, but be willing partakers of the
suffering and afflictions that will come from preaching it.
Now there are some who privately confess to believe the Gospel
of Christ. Now listen, I've met some men,
and you've probably known some men, who will sit there and privately,
as you converse with them, agree with the gospel you preach. Privately. They believe, they privately
confess that in the sovereign election of God. You talk about
God's election, God's sovereign election, and they say, yes,
I believe that. Privately, you talk about the
absolute depravity of man. And they say, well, yeah, I understand
that. Yeah, I believe that. I believe man's dead in sin.
Man has no ability. You talk about the perfect work
of Christ and how He effectually wrought redemption for all His
people. And they may agree to that. They
may privately confess to that. You speak of the effectual call
of the Spirit, how none could be saved except the Spirit God. Give them life and breath and
faith. They say, yeah, I believe that.
Preach the perseverance of the saints, how that all that God
chose, all that Christ redeemed, all that the Spirit called, none
of them shall be lost. And they say, yes, that's good.
That's good. I like that. But as soon as they confess that
privately, listen to them publicly, and as soon as they stand in
the pulpit or be confronted by men, they cower like Peter before
the maiden. They begin to use words, big
fancy words, to express the gospel so as to cover it up. I think
that's what big fancy words do, is they do nothing for anybody
else but the man that's speaking. Puffs him up with pride. It does
nothing for the hearers. We should speak plainly. We should
speak boldly. So as children should understand
what we're saying. So we're not covering up anything.
I want you to know exactly what I'm saying. We don't use big
fancy words. We don't use language so as to hearers to
pass over what we believe. Some confess it in private, but
in public they deny the gospel by their consent to a false gospel. They say, well, I believe in
the gospel of God's free grace, but you know what? These other
guys got a point, too. No, you're ashamed of the gospel. You're ashamed of it. Anyone who confesses or consents
to free will works religion as having any part in the gospel
of Christ and the kingdom of God. You do that because you're
weak. Because you're ashamed of the
truth. And you know once you preach the truth, you're going
to offend people. They're going to be angry at
you. Others profess it in private but deny it. By never preaching
it. Well, you get them alone and
they're all over that, the gospel of God's free grace. But put
them in a pulpit and they never say anything at all about it.
Listen, I'll make this plain. They don't preach it because
they don't believe it. They don't preach it because
they are ashamed of it. Ashamed. You remember what Paul said,
and I want you to know, anybody that's ashamed of this gospel,
you're ashamed of Christ. Because Christ and his gospel
are inseparable. That's what Paul said to those
Galatians. He said this when they were preaching another gospel,
that gospel of circumcision plus Christ. He said this, I marvel
that you are so soon removed from what? The gospel? No. He said, I marvel that you're
removed from Him. Unto what? Another gospel. The gospel and Christ are inseparable. To remove from the gospel is
to remove from Him. To remove from Him is to remove
from His gospel. Inseparable. And so anyone and
everyone who professes to believe the gospel of Christ, but stands
and preaches another gospel, which is any gospel, and I want
you to make this clear, it's any gospel that mixes Christ's
work and yours. That's another gospel. Anybody
that stands and confesses the gospel but preaches another gospel,
that man is removed from Christ. He is ashamed of the gospel of
Christ, which is the salvation by the sovereign will and grace
of God. But I tell you this, we're not ashamed. Everyone who has any experience
of grace wrought in their heart cannot be ashamed of this gospel.
I just cannot. I'm not ashamed of this gospel. Anyone and everyone who's been
saved by grace of God, by the experience of the power and effectual
work of grace that are born again of the Holy Spirit, we will boldly
and plainly proclaim the gospel. Why? For we know. We know some things. This isn't
just hypothetical stuff. This isn't stuff that's just
philosophical things. These are real things. We know of our natural condition,
don't we? Is the doctrine of depravity
just that some teaching that you learned? Or is it something
you know of yourself? We know this of ourselves. This
is true when I speak of depravity. I'm speaking of something that
I know. We're not ashamed of the Gospel
because we know that we can never make ourselves perfect, make
ourselves righteous. We couldn't save ourselves. We're
not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ because we were saved
by the effectual power and grace of it. I remember hearing it a thousand
times. How many times have you heard
it over and over and over and there was nothing. All of those
times you heard the gospel and there was nothing. And then one day there was something. The Lord took that gospel that
was being preached and He effectually worked it into your souls so
as you should feel your burden, know your need, and flee to Christ
for grace. And we who have that experience
of grace, we're not ashamed because this is how God saved us. We
know that this is the power of God unto salvation to everyone
that believe it. Why should we be ashamed of it?
Everyone else should be ashamed if they don't believe it. Let
them be ashamed. And I'll tell you this, soon
they will be ashamed. God says He'll make them ashamed in that
day. We heard this gospel of God's
grace, of Christ coming in the flesh, and by His perfect redemption
in blood, obtained salvation. We heard how God was forever
pleased by His obedience in blood, and we fled to Him for refuge.
And in Him, what did we find? We found peace. We found joy. We found contentment. We found
salvation. We found everything that the
world promised and couldn't give. We found everything religion
promised and couldn't give. We found it in Christ. And I'm
not ashamed to tell you where I found it. Are you? I'm not
ashamed to tell you where I found this. I found this in Christ. Therefore, we have been given
the grace of God in Jesus Christ. We have found Him. Or rather,
He found us. Isn't that right? He found us. I'm not ashamed to tell you that.
He found me. He saved me. Why did He save
you? Because He would. Nothing in
me. Nothing in me. So we're not ashamed
to declare these things. And so then this gospel of Christ,
what is it that we're not ashamed of? We're not ashamed to declare
the depravity of man because that's the Word of God, isn't
it? Man is so dead he cannot come to God, he cannot come to
Christ. Jesus said, no man can come to me, except the Father
which has sent me draw him. Now that tells you a lot about
our nature, that we're ruined and dead, full of sin. That's the gospel, that's the
gospel. You miss that, you miss the gospel. You're ashamed of
that, you're ashamed of the gospel. Secondly, the gospel, we're not
ashamed of God's election. Why? Because if there were no
election, there wouldn't be any salvation. You know that, you see those
instructions sometimes, step one, do this. Step two, see step
one. You see election, step two. Why
is there an election? See step one. Depravity. If man wasn't depraved, there
wouldn't need be election. But because of depravity, there's
a need of election. Without election, then there
is no salvation. I'm not ashamed to say that. I'm not ashamed because God said
it. According as He had chosen us in Christ Jesus before the
foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without
blame before Him in love, having predestinated us. Predestinated
us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ unto Himself.
I'm not ashamed of that. If you're ashamed of that, listen,
you're ashamed of Christ. Because election was where? In
Christ, wasn't it? God put us in Christ in election.
Thirdly, we're not ashamed of the success of Christ. I'm not
ashamed to tell you that He's done it. I'm not ashamed to tell
you it's finished. I'm not ashamed to tell you that
all is ready and nothing required of you. That's a good message,
isn't it? It's a message religion can't
stomach. Again, I like going to conferences. I get things
every once in a while. Larry Criss said Jonah was in
the whale. He said it must have been an
Arminian whale. Because when he said, salvations of the Lord,
it spit him up. That's right. They don't want
any part of this. Salvation is a successful gospel. And they can't stomach that.
They can't. I don't know why you can't stomach it. That's
the best news ever. I'm not ashamed to tell you that.
That's the gospel of Christ. He said, it is finished. You
know what that means? It means this. He's finished
it. It's done. Salvation, redemption,
righteousness is done. I'm not ashamed to say that.
Paul said it. He said, but this man, after
he had offered himself once, once, Paul said, he hath perfected
forever them that are sanctified. By that one offering, one offering,
he's perfect. I'm not ashamed to tell you the
irresistible effectual call of the Holy Spirit. I'm not ashamed
of that. No man can come to me. See step one again. Go back to
step one. Why do we need the effectual
call of the Spirit? See step one, total depravity. You need
the Spirit of God to come and effectually work in you a new
heart. A new nature so that you might
believe. You cannot believe except He
give you faith. It has to be of the power of
God. And fifthly, I'm not ashamed
of this, all the Father chose. This is just perfect. It just
sums up the whole thing, doesn't it? All the Father chose. All
those depraved, rebellious people, He chose His people from that
lump. Took them. Gave them to Christ.
Christ perfectly redeemed them. Christ accomplished their salvation.
In time, the Spirit of God will effectually come to every one
of them, and they will be saved, and you get this, none of them
will be lost. What kind of God would prepare
a heaven and then not fill it? My God doesn't do that. There's
specifically a number. I don't know what that number
is. It's a lot. And everyone God chose, they're
going to have faith. And guess what? The just shall
live by faith. They're going to continue to
believe. I'm not ashamed of this. I'm not ashamed of this. There's a song I like to sing,
In Christ Alone. And this was said on the internet,
I was looking up that song, and it says one of the most controversial
songs. And this is the line of controversy. That God the just, talking about
the death of Christ, that God the just is satisfied. By the death of Christ, that
God the just is satisfied. That's controversial, isn't it,
in this world? Not to me, it isn't. In Christ,
He died. He actually satisfied the justice
of God. Now listen, let me ask you very
simply, are you ashamed of this? Any part of this at all, are
you ashamed of it? Not if you know it. I'm not ashamed of this. I'm not ashamed of this, and
no matter what it costs, no matter the opinion of men, no matter
if I am alone, God help me if I am. I imagine that I might
succumb like Elijah thought I'd be the only one. He said, just
kill me. God says, you're not alone. I've
got plenty others who ain't ashamed of this. I am not ashamed of
the gospel of Christ. Now, let us look at the reason
Paul gives for his boldness. Now, go back to your text. He's
not ashamed of the gospel of Christ. Look at the reason. Four,
here's the reason why we shouldn't be ashamed of this gospel. Four,
it is the power of God unto salvation to everyone that
believes. The power, what does that mean?
The power of God. Power of God. Now every man who
preaches the gospel of God knows this, there is no power in us.
Now listen, I'm not ashamed of it, but my not being ashamed
of it is there's no power in it. I can boldly, plainly declare
this gospel as clearly as possible. If I had the gift of Apollos,
so as to make angels weep, You know how much power that
has? Zero. I could not make you come to
Christ. I could not convince you, though
I could cry a million tears, it would not convince you to
come to Christ. There's no power in the preacher
nor his ability. Every preacher longs for everyone
that hears him to believe. This morning, I want everyone
here to believe. With all my heart, I want you
to believe on Christ. I do. With all my soul, I want
you to believe. I want you to not be ashamed
of this gospel of Christ. I really do. But there's no power
in me. The plain teaching of Holy Scripture,
and even by the experience in the salvation of a soul, we confess
It is only by the power of God that any will hear. Why? See step one. Nobody's going to hear. By our
power, except God do it. For man is not wounded by the
fall, but dead. Man doesn't need assistance in
salvation. He needs life. Man doesn't need
to be reformed. He needs a new heart. Listen, you don't need to give
your heart to Jesus. What does He want that thing
for? He needs to give you a heart. You need a new heart, and He
must give it to you. Once He does, you want to throw
away that old heart. You want him to get rid of it.
You don't want to give it to him. You want him to crush it. Kill it. It's worthless. But how does God give us these
things? The preaching of the gospel. And that's exactly what Paul
means by the power of God. The power of God. The preaching
of the gospel is the means of the power of God to give life
and salvation to sinners. Go over to James chapter 1. Look
at James chapter 1 quickly. James chapter 1 and verse 17. Paul, James here is talking about
salvation in verse 17. He said, every good and perfect
gift. What is that? That's salvation.
He's not talking about you having good health. That comes from
God too. He's not talking about you getting
a new car, a new home, a good job. That's not what he's talking
about. He's talking about salvation. That's the perfect gift, isn't
it? Everything else is temporal. This is perfect. That good and
perfect gift cometh down from the Father of lights, in whom
there is no variableness nor shadow of turning. Now why does
this thing come to us? Of His own will begat He us. How? How did He do it? How did
that power come and give you life? By the will of God with
the Word of Truth. The Word of Truth. Peter says,
we are born again not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible by
the Word of God, which liveth and abideth forever. And so what is the evidence of
this power of God, this good and perfect gift that cometh
down from the Father of lights? What is the evidence that the
power of God has come in you? Is it jumping up and down and
hollering? Is it rolling on the floor? Is it laughing so hard
with joy, tears coming down your eyes? Is that evidence of the
power of God? You listen. When Judas threw
the coins before those high priests, you pay attention, he wept. That wasn't the power of God. There's conviction in the power
of God to salvation. No, the only evidence of this
is faith in Christ. That's the power of God. That's
the power of God. To believe on Christ takes the
power of God alone. You know what unbelief takes?
Nothing. No power. Why? You naturally
do not believe. So all God has to do with you
is let you alone. Let you to your free will. Let you do what you want to do.
And you will continue in unbelief. But to believe on Christ, that
is the work of God. Now what he told those people
in John 6, he said, this is the work of God. What is the work
of God? That you believe on Him, whom
He has sent. It's a work of God. It's a power
of God. Man is blind by nature and he
needs sight. And once he has sight, what does
he see? He sees that he's a sinner. He sees he is stripped and exposed,
and all of his righteousness stinks in the nostrils of God.
That's what we see. It's the power of God that gives
us sight. And by what means then does this
sight come? preaching the Gospel. This is
God's chosen means by which the power of God is conveyed. Don't
you understand now why we are not to be ashamed of this Gospel? Because God uses it to save His
people. I'm not ashamed of this. This
is how salvation comes to all God's elect. No man can come
to Christ without the Father, but no man can come to Christ
without a hearing of Christ. Now what John does, he spends
all that time in Romans 10, Paul does, teaching us that. How can
a man be called on Him whom he doesn't believe? But how can
you believe on Him if you've not heard of Him? And how can
you hear without a preacher? And how can they preach except
they be sent? We declare it plainly for this
reason that God may give you sight. Sight to see what? You're
blind. You have to have sight to see
you're blind. That's what Jesus said. He said this, if you are
blind, you should have no sin. Isn't that great? Well, I'm not
blind. He got something to say to you
too. He said, but now you say, we see, therefore your sin remaineth.
Well, if you're not blind, your sin remaineth. But those who
know they're blind, by the power of God, our sins are no more. Our sins are no more. And so, what do we do who are
not ashamed of this gospel, have the power of God come to us and
give us? We gladly embrace this gospel. We freely support this work. What a joy! that God has given
us a place where His gospel is plainly preached. And this is only done by the
power of God and the Holy Spirit, yet He will never give life apart
from the preaching of the gospel. Paul says this, it pleased God
by the foolishness of preaching to save them that belief. Now
listen, everyone who's ashamed of this method, ashamed of this
means of preaching the gospel, ashamed of the gospel itself,
I want you to know you are perishing. Now you see the length then of
someone who is ashamed of this gospel, who has no interest in
this gospel, and being lost. If you're ashamed of this gospel,
if you have no interest in this gospel, it's because you're perishing. But Paul said, that's not us.
But to us, what is it? What is it to you? What is this
gospel to you? It is the power of God unto salvation. That's what we know by our experience.
We know this. We're not ashamed of it. So then,
those who are ashamed and try to make this gospel entertaining,
they try to mold it so as to not offend men, these are fools.
Fools. I heard some church a while back
put a zip line in their church. Zip lining for Jesus. Fools. all of them. Why? They're ashamed of the gospel
of Christ. They've got to cover it up with
entertainment. Fools. But I tell you this, blessed
is the place where the gospel is preached without apology.
You know what? I don't apologize for this gospel. I don't ever
apologize and I won't apologize for this gospel. If it offends
you, Not going to apologize. Not going to do it. It's just
so. Would to God you would believe
it and bow to it, but I won't apologize for it. I won't try
to make it palatable to you. I will not. Why? I'm not ashamed of it. Only those
who are ashamed of it need to make it or change it. I don't
need to change it. Well, I don't understand it.
I can't help you there either. I can try to explain it as good
as I can, but I can't make it effectual. I can't do it. But
I won't change it for anybody. And notice this. Paul gives another
reason. I'll get this one quickly. For therein is the righteousness
of God revealed. From faith to faith. When this
gospel is preached, it shows man that he has no righteousness. It clearly, plainly says so. As it is written. There are none... What? What do you mean by none? No,
not one. That's what I mean. Just in case
you misunderstood. None righteous. Yet God demands
righteousness from every man. And if God ever makes that effectual,
you'll begin to see it's impossible for you to save yourself. Where do you go to find righteousness?
For therein is the righteousness of God revealed. Only in the
gospel of Christ is the righteousness of God revealed. Where? In the person of Jesus Christ. There's the righteousness. You
want to know where righteousness is? It's in Him. He did it. He came from heaven and obtained
righteousness. righteousness. What it says in Hebrews 9, verse
12, "...neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by His
own blood He entered in once into the holy place, having obtained..."
What? "...eternal righteousness." That's
what I need. See? That's what I need. That's
what you need. You need eternal righteousness.
Where is it found? It's found in Christ, which is
the center, sum, and subject of this Gospel. Christ. Christ. Christ. All about Christ. I'm not ashamed I don't spend
a lot of time talking about you. I'm not ashamed of that. I want
to talk about Him. He's wherein the righteousness
of God is revealed. That He did obtain what God required. He obtained what God required. By His death and by His own Obedience. Look at Romans 3 and verse 21. Romans 3, 21, but now what? The
righteousness of God. And now what you need? I don't
need just any righteousness. I need the righteousness of God.
I need one that God is going to be satisfied with. He said,
but now the righteousness of God. Notice this, without the
law, without your obedience, is manifest. When? When Christ
came into the world, it was manifest. It was made known, the righteousness
of God, by His own obedience. Being witnessed by the Law and
the Prophets, now even the righteousness of God, which is by faith. What's that little word there? Faith of Jesus. Not faith in Jesus Christ. That
did not obtain righteousness. That's what the world thinks
obtains righteousness, isn't it? Isn't it? They think that faith
obtains righteousness. That by your believing, you get
the righteousness. You have somehow merited it.
You got it. No, you didn't get it. He did. He obtained it by His own faith.
And then, by grace, it is unto all and upon all them that, what? Believe in Christ. Believe Him. Oh, friends, this is a revelation
of God. It's revealed by revelation.
You're not going to know that. You're not going to understand
that. You're not going to want that until God gives it to you. And
when God gives it to you, friends, you ain't gonna be ashamed. For
this righteousness which is revealed of God is from faith to faith. What does that mean? The faith
of God. That's what it means. It's from
the faith of God, isn't it? God trusted in who? Christ. Ephesians chapter 1,
Paul said, who first trusted in Christ. That's God the Father
trusting in the Son. He trusted the Son with all of
His elect. Then the Son came in faith, and in faith He obtained
righteousness. And then, here comes that lower
one. That's where faith is given to
you. From faith, His faith, to the
faith that He gives you. And now then, how are we living?
The just shall live by faith. Faith in what? Faith in who?
Faith in Christ. Trusting the gospel of Jesus
Christ, and we are not ashamed of this gospel. I'm not. It's
the power of God and salvation to everyone that believe it.
You believe, you understand that, you know that to be true, and
therefore you're not ashamed. For therein is the righteousness
of God revealed in Christ from faith to faith, and we live by
faith. Oh, I'm not ashamed. May God
give us boldness in this day of everyone beating around the
bush. Stop beating around the bush.
Tell people in love how it really is. Otherwise, what are you doing? You're just ashamed. Just ashamed. I'm not ashamed. I'm not ashamed of that. I'm
not ashamed of this. I love it. May God keep us. Give us strength. not be ashamed.