Is religion a personal thing?

"Keep your religion to yourself!"

"Never discuss religion or politics..."

"Religion is a personal thing."

As believers we MUST speak up for Y'shua. We MUST preach for people to repent and be saved.
Y'shua preached "Repent! For the kingdom of heaven is at hand." {Matthew 4:17 KJV} We too are told "...Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature. He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned." {Mark 16:15,16 KJV}
"...he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him." {John 3:36 KJV}
If we don't preach, others can not be saved from the damnation Christ warns about, and WE will be held guilty for withholding the truth. {Ezekiel 33:8}

The Scriptures warn of who will not be entering the kingdom...
Fornicators (unmarried sex), idolaters (having anything more important than God), adulterers, effeminate (men that wear women's clothing, act feminine), abusers of themselves with mankind (homosexuals), thieves, covetous, drunkards, revilers (talk abusively about someone), extortioners, fearful (faithless), unbelieving, abominable (Scripture mentions many items and activities that God finds abominable), murders (abortion is murder), whore mongers (female prostitute), sorcerers (drug users), liars, dogs (male prostitute). {1 Corinthians 6:9,10; Revelation 21:8; 22:15}

Christians have a responsibility to preach, just as Christ did "Repent, believe and be baptized." {Matthew 4:17, Mark 16:15,16} It will not make us popular {please see Matthew 10:22}nor "politically correct" and it definitely will not be easy, but it is our commission.

We will be held responsible for their continued guilt if we do not share the kingdom message with them. {Ezekiel 33:8}

Trust in YHWH

"The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?" {Jeremiah 17:9 KJV}

God tells us our own heart is DECEITFUL and desperately WICKED. What comes from the heart? Certainly our desires and emotions. Warning to self, with everlasting life in view, my heart can NOT be trusted.


Of my desires the adversary is well aware.
Trusting in, being guided by my emotions is bait for the serpant to bite.

Instead, I need to take a step back; praying and inquiring of YHWH in his Holy Word.

"Trust in YHWH with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding." {Proverbs 3:5 KJV}

"...Thy Word is truth." {John17:17 KVJ}

"And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM:" {Exodus 3:14}
Y'shua identifies himself as God, I AM...
"Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I AM." {John 8:58}

The I AM's of Y'shua help define Y'shua for us.

"The bread of life" {John 6:35}
"The light of the world" {John 8:12}
"The door" {John 10:9}
"The good shepard" {John 10:11}
"The resurrection and the life" {John 11:25}
"The way, the truth and the life" {John 14:6}
"The true vine" {John 15:1}

We must fellowship day in and day out with Christ. He is the only hope for mankind, we cannot buy or earn or own way. He is "the way", the ONLY way!