I wonder how many people would continue asking for boldness to preach the gospel if they understood the cost that comes with it: being falsely accused, misunderstood, kicked out of churches, mocked, called crazy, watching family and friends back away and quit trusting you because they think you are dangerous, that you have been led astray, that you have gone completely off the deep end, are listening to the voice of Satan, that you are just in a passing phase. That’s just to name a few things; and those are only the small things.

The Apostles had boldness with this message, look what happened to them. Jesus had boldness with this message, look what happened to Him.

In theory, we Americans are all more than ready to get our heads chopped off for Jesus when the Left Behind movies are fulfilled. In reality, most of us refuse to even open our mouths and be the ONE person who will stand up in the midst of a hundred people and proclaim the absolute Truth about the uncompromisable goodness of our Father. Even when it goes against every single popular sermon, catch phrase, and bumper sticker that people have bought into for the last hundred years.

‘Like’ us on Facebook!Are you sure you want boldness to preach this message? Do you even know what boldness is? Are you convinced like I was for so many years that boldness is some miraculous event that happens one day when God magically decides to show up in your room and begin to move your legs and arms and mouth for you?

‘Like’ us on Facebook!THIS is boldness: I am not ashamed of this gospel because it is the power of salvation for every single person on this planet who believes. It is the absolute Truth about the goodness of my Father and all of His creation. Nothing and nobody in this entire world has the power, authority, or ability to shut me up. Not pastors, not policemen, not supreme courts, not devils.

I have boldness because I know the Truth about my Father and myself, and it set me free. I am bold because I am righteous (Proverbs 28:1). I am bold because I believe. And nobody will ever stand in front of me and try to lead me back the way I came.

I am the ONE who will stand up in the crowd of hundreds, in the midst of every blatant lie about my Father, my brothers and sisters, and myself, and I will proclaim the Truth that He is good, and we are made perfectly in His image. If that makes me your enemy then so be it. But I exist to love you not to be loved by you.

Follow us on Twitter!Somebody gave me a word of knowledge when I first became a Christian that I was like a roaring lion. It was nice, and it turned out to be true. But for years after I was still an incredibly shy and quiet person that didn’t talk much about anything. I wasn’t confident in my Christianity because there was nothing in my Christianity to be confident about. What do I have to tell the world? “We’re all wretches! But come to Jesus! You’ll still be a sin-filled wretch, but He’ll just ignore it!” Yeah right.

Then somebody happened to come along and tell me the truth about myself. Once I found out the truth about myself I got excited about life. Then once I realized that it was the truth, not just about me, but every other Christian who grew up believing they are a sinful wretch, I got excited, and I got loud.

Follow us on Twitter!I used to sit in my room and ask God for “more boldness”, thinking it was something that just supernaturally happened. He didn’t show up in my room one day and say, “Arise! Now you are full of boldness!” like I expected Him to. He just had somebody tell me the truth about myself, and I couldn’t help but be bold with that truth in the face of every lie I encountered because I became confident that those things were lies and they didn’t belong. There wasn’t a doubt in my mind.

I wouldn’t find somebody trying to break into my house and hesitate, and unconfidently say, “Well ya know, maybe they’re just here to bring some snacks. Maybe they don’t mean any harm!” No way. If I see someone breaking into my house I’m going to BOLDLY do something about it because I am absolutely certain that they are not supposed to be in my house and they are there to cause me and my family harm. So there’s going to be a confrontation one way or the other, because I live here, they are not allowed, and I will do everything in my power to make sure they don’t stay. Is it arrogant to say, “I live here. You don’t belong. Get out.”? No, because it’s absolutely true.

I’m not sure if it’s just our American culture that has been mixed in with our Church mindsets, but you can’t really be bold (100% sure) about anything anymore without people freaking out and thinking you are arrogant and full of pride. It’s ridiculous. If something is Truth, it is Truth. I’m not going to pretend it’s not Truth because I’ll come off like a “know-it-all” to someone if I stand on it and won’t be moved.

Subscribe to us on Youtube!We’re called to preach Truth. How can we boldly preach anything if we won’t let ourselves fully believe it? Church doctrine is so full of this double-minded stuff that people think is spiritual. “It is but it’s not”, “We are but we aren’t”, “The kingdom is here but not yet”. It’s deception. It stops us from fully believing and embracing anything. And if we can’t believe something fully we’re never going to preach it with the kind of boldness that Jesus and the early church preached it, because they never said any of that wishy-washy “It’s fully red but it’s also blue!” stuff. They said, “This is the way that it is. Believe it.”

Paul even went as far as saying, “If anyone preaches any other gospel than the one I preached, I don’t care if it’s an angel from heaven, let him be cursed.” (Gal. 1:8).

Ha. Yeah. Trying saying that today.

Do you think you need more boldness? You don’t. You just need a foundation of absolute truth to stand on, because then nothing will shake you.

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