From Facebook – Word of God
ARE WE BOLD or DO WE HIDE OUR HEAD IN THE SAND?
In the book of Acts, the single word that is used most frequently to speak of the Christian life is “boldness”. Christians are bold. They speak boldly. They act boldly. PARRHESIA is translated in scripture: boldness, forthrightness, frankness, confidence.
The book of Hebre…ws exhorts us, “Let us with confidence (“boldly”) draw near to the throne of grace that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need.”
Luke writes, “When they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were uneducated, common men, they wondered; and then they recognized that these two had been with Jesus.” The boldness of Peter and John isn’t cockiness. Their boldness is conviction plus courage plus transparency. Living in the company of Jesus supplies this.
“Lazarus isn’t sleeping; he is dead.” Our Lord speaks boldly and bluntly not to brutalize his hearers, but rather to keep them from hiding their head in the sand unrealistically. Herein we are to be bold as he was bold before us.
“Bold”= means confident but not cocky in our approaching that throne whose grace rules our life as well as the entire world. It means public, open, manifest as we recall our Lord’s triumph over everything that gives us a false identity and false identifiability.
Let’s WAKE UP church …YOU ARE the hands, feet, ears, mouth of God, SPEAK UP! Let them know JESUS LOVES THEM…Let them know HELL IS REAL…let them know there is HOPE, HEALING, MERCY…WAKE UP and BE BOLD!!
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