“For whoever is ashamed of Me and My words in this adulterous and sinful generation, of him the Son of Man also will be ashamed when He comes in the glory of His Father with the holy angels.”
This is not something that just the liberals do, but sometimes is something that we, as conservative evangelicals, do. We try to hide it by using lofty theological terms and technicalities to extract ourselves from certain commands that came out of the mouth of Jesus. Take for example how we deal with unbelievers, we like to separate ourselves completely from them and avoid them like the Jews avoided Gentiles like the plague. Yet if we look at Jesus, He touched the leper, He lifted the chin of adulteress, He approached that filthy Samaritan woman at the well.
As Jesus ate and ministered to the broken, corrupted, flagrant sinners; we should also likewise welcome the homosexual into our church, minister and talk to the drugged out homeless person, we should love the liberals who have been corrupted by the ways of this world. Some might make the excuse that Jesus was perfect, and so He could be around them, but we shouldn’t since we are not perfect. They may believe that, but they have to deal with 1 John 2:6: “He who says he abides in Him (Christ) ought himself also walk just as He walked.”
Application: Though I’m not ashamed of what Jesus says, I know I don’t always follow Jesus’ example in my walk with the Lord. But just the fact that my heart is contrary to Jesus’ example shows that I’m partly ashamed of Him? Unfortunately I can’t change my heart, but by the power of the cross which ripped the veil of the temple, the veil in my heart may be ripped open so that my heart plays harmoniously with my mind in the adoration and worship of Jesus Christ.
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