We must not live life as if this is not the situation we find ourselves in. We are surrounded by people who are under the wrath of God. Who are on the precipice of hell. And the reason that they are is because they desperately love their sin and do not want to give it up. It is silly then, or even better, it is blindingly asinine for the believer to be the one who is ashamed. 

Have you ever gone home after a long time out, looked in the mirror and found that you had something in your teeth?

I once came home after a full day out and found something green in my teeth. Immediately I began thinking about all my so-called friends who had to have seen this forest growing in my mouth and said nothing!

I mean the “friend” I had lunch with who was a witness to the catastrophe happening decided that he was more embarrassed to tell me I had a forest growing between my teeth than for me to have the forest in my teeth for the rest of the day!

All jokes aside this is the feeling I get when someone tells me that they’re afraid or embarrassed to share the Gospel!

You’re not the one with the problem! You’re the one with the solution to the problem!

A simple reading of scripture will show you just how “shameful” the condition of the unbeliever is.

Ephesians 2:1-3 describes a group of dead men who are making their way towards hell.

2 Timothy 2:26 describes people who are out of their senses, and like a dog on a leash being carried around by the Devil himself!

And we look at people who are in this terrible condition and we are the ones who act embarrassed! Obviously, Paul doesn’t point this out to us for mocking purposes, rather he does so to elicit compassion in our hearts. But it is remarkable that we can know this is their spiritual condition and yet, look at them and talk to them with shame in our hearts.

I think that 2 Timothy 2:25 and Romans 1:18 are sister verses. Obviously, they are written by the same person. But it is notable to me how they are perfect mirrors of each other. Because they both explain in slightly different terms the reason why people will not believe the Gospel.

2 Timothy 2:25 tells us what people are missing.

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