The Righteousness of Christ

The Bible has much to say about shame and the Christian; the word is used 217 times. For example…

• In 2 Timothy 1:8, 12 we are commanded not to be ashamed of the testimony of the Lord or of suffering for the Gospel.
• In Hebrews 2:11; 11:16 we are told that God is “not ashamed to be called our God” with the obvious implication that we ought not to be ashamed of Him!
• In Mark 8:38; Luke 9:26 we learn that those who are characteristically ashamed of Christ on earth, Christ will be ashamed of them before the Father.
• That is perhaps why David prayed on several occasions, “O my God, in Thee I trust, do not let me be ashamed…” (Psalm 25:2, 25; 31:1; cf. also Psalm 71:1).

Indeed, as children of God who have received so much from Christ, we do not want to be ashamed of the Lord. We love Him. Yet based on the world in which we live, shame seems to be a ready emotion when it comes to the things of the Lord. So how do we NOT be ashamed of the Lord? Does the Bible give any instruction on the subject?

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