Weekend Sermon -- Confessing Christ Before The World

 We have finished our study in the Psalms, so now it's the time to get back to the weekend sermon. Thank you for taking the time to read this message.

Today, I want us to focus on the words of Jesus found in Matthew 10:32-33 that state, "Everyone therefore who shall confess Me before men, I will also confess him before my Father in heaven. But whoever shall deny Me before men, I will also deny him before my Father in heaven. I would like to focus on what it means to confess Christ before the world.

To confess Jesus as Lord means that we acknowledge Him. We claim Him as our Savior and King. I believe that the first way that we do this is at our baptism. After we have turned to Jesus and received His forgiveness, we are to be baptized. At baptism, we are confessing to the world that we are leaving our past life of sin behind, and we are embracing Christ and His way. We are leaving the way of the world to follow the way of the cross.

We also confess Jesus to the world through our behaviors and actions. One of the signs that we follow Jesus is that we follow the golden rule that He established. We should do unto others as we would have done to us. We also acknowledge our Lord when when we love God with all our heart, mind, soul and strength, and when we love our neighbor as ourself.

One other way that we confess Christ that I would like to point out is that we confess Jesus as our Lord when we obey the Great Commission and tell others about Him. This shows to the world that we are not ashamed of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Amen

Prayer Requests and Other Matters

Please be in prayer in regard to the terrible fires in the western part of the United States. Pray that these fires can be extinguished, and pray for the safety of the firefighters. Pray that those in the path of the fire will be safe.

Continue to pray for an end to the coronavirus pandemic.

Pray for peace in Syria, Yemen and Afghanistan.

For our prayer focus countries this week, let us pray for Thailand and Bosnia.

Please pray that things will go well at my work this week, and pray that the paycheck will come in OK.

Next week, we will have the sermon on Friday. In a couple of weeks, I hope to start a sermon series on Christian characteristics. On Monday, I will post the verses. I hope to have a review for Wednesday. May God bless you all.