VALDEZ, RUDOLF KING D.

HOTEL-1 B.S.CRIMINOLOGY

Activity this week Individual activity Make a confession of Jesus Christ. With bible verse. Two(10) confession
Example: Jesus Christ is the alpha and Omega Revelation 21:6 It serves your attendance and recitation. Deadline
until Friday October 28,2022(5pm) Submit to your secretary.
Jesus is not talking about something easy, but something hard
When you first hear this verse, it sounds like an easy thing to do. Here’s the Lord Jesus Christ and
what does He want me to do? “Whoever acknowledges me…” (Matthew 10:32). So, that’s what I
have to do—I have to acknowledge Jesus, and accept that He’s the Savior and say I believe in Him—
nothing terribly difficult about that.
But look with me at the context:
“I am sending you out as sheep among wolves” (v16).
[What chance do sheep have among wolves?]
“They will hand you over to the local councils and flog you in their synagogues. On my account you
will be brought before governors and kings. When they arrest you…” (v17-19).
[Not “If they arrest you…, When they arrest you…”]
“Brother will betray brother to death… Children will have their parents put to death. All men will hate
you because of me.  When you are persecuted in one place flee to another…”
(v21-23). [“When you are persecuted…,” not “If…”]
“Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the   soul… Whoever acknowledges me
before men, I will  acknowledge him before my Father in heaven” (v28, 32).
Clearly “confessing” Christ will be the most demanding challenge these men will face in their entire
lives. Confessing Christ will be the single greatest challenge in your life as a Christian believer. How
does this apply to us?
Since the time of Christ there has been a long and noble line of Christians who have laid down their
lives for Jesus. Have you ever read Foxe’s Book of Martyrs? Men and women thrown to lions, burned
at the stake, enduring unspeaking suffering because they confessed Christ.
Some of you have been disowned by your own family, cut out of a will because you confess Christ.
Others have suffered in different ways. But the truth is, that for most of us, confessing Christ does not
put us in immanent danger. I have never been beaten up for my faith in Christ. I have never been
imprisoned. I have experienced some hatred, but never more than words.
What does it mean for us to confess Jesus Christ in America? Philip Power was a pastor in England
150 years ago, in a Christianized culture. When he preached on this verse, he said:
“We must at once clear out of our way the idea that we in this land of professing Christians are
confessors, because we call ourselves Christians. It would require far more boldness for us in this
country to confess the devil, and say we were not Christians than to confess Christ and say that we
are.” 
Don’t think you’re doing what Jesus says here because you call yourself a Christian, in a culture
where it’s acceptable and costs you nothing. The hardest moments of our lives will be our greatest
opportunity to confess Jesus.