And if you're in here with me this morning, we're going to be in Genesis chapter 2. Genesis chapter 2. Genesis chapter 2 and Romans, let me get it open here. Romans chapter 10, Genesis chapter 2 and Romans chapter 10. And we're gonna look at the fifth most talked about emotion in your Bible this morning. The fifth most, so it's not the most, but it's the fifth, it's in that top 10 list. Romans chapter 10 and Genesis chapter 2. Romans chapter 10 and Genesis chapter 2. Let's go ahead and read Genesis chapter 2 verse 25. And it says, And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed. And then Romans chapter 10 verse 11. It says, for the scripture saith, whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed. Let's go ahead and pray. Heavenly Father, Lord, again I come to you thanking you and praising you for all that you've done, Lord. I thank you that we're able to gather here and learn something from your word and give you honor and praise, Lord. I thank you that we have the freedom and the liberty to do that. I pray now that you would just fill me with your spirit, Lord. I pray that these people would learn something this morning, that they would be able to take it and apply it to their lives where it's needed, and that you would just come in and speak to each and every one of us, Lord. I pray this in Jesus' name. Amen. So it says they were both naked, the man and the wife, and were not ashamed. And then Romans 10 11, for the scripture saith, whosoever believeth on him, shall not be ashamed. Now, the word ashamed appears 122 times in your King James Bible, and shame appears 128 times in the Bible. This means that shame is one of the most repeated emotional themes in all of Scripture. The dictionary definition gives us two definitions. Embarrassed or guilty because of one's actions, characteristics, or associations. The second definition is reluctant to do something through fear, embarrassment, or humiliation. And your biblical definition would probably be something close to this. To feel shame, guilt, or disgrace. To be embarrassed or confounded. That's another word that the Bible uses that goes right along with ashamed. Especially due to sin, failure, or association with something rejected by others. Shame is a powerful emotion. It can sense the strongest voices, stop the boldest efforts, and keep a person stuck in fear. And many of us know what that is to be ashamed. We all have all hung our heads in regret at some point in our life. We all know what it feels like to be ashamed. of either what we have done or what we haven't done. We've all been there. And the Bible teaches us that through Jesus Christ, we can live a life where we are never ashamed, not before God, not before men, and not in eternity. We've, I've said things in a group of people or in public that once it comes out of my mouth and you guys, maybe some of you have been there too. Once that something comes out of your mouth, you feel instant regret, instant shame, almost embarrassment. You know, like I'm just going to remove myself from this area. Cause that was so shameful, so disgusted that it came out of my mouth and it shouldn't have ever came out. We've all been there. We've all been embarrassed and ashamed of something to the point where we want to go and hide and disappear from anyone around us. We've all been in that position or maybe we've tripped or done something embarrassing in front of someone and you feel embarrassment or ashamed because you're not Mr. Perfect, you've messed up. Or maybe worse yet, someone found out about your past. And when they found out about the past things that you did, you felt shame. You felt regret. Shame has always had a way of sticking with us. It makes us hide, cover up, and live in fear of being exposed. But today, God never meant for us to live like that. In Genesis 2, verse 25, which we just read, So Adam and Eve, before sin, before the fallen world, they were not ashamed. There was no shame before sin. They were fully known, fully loved by God and each other, and there was no fear, no guilt, no hiding. But then we see after they sinned in Genesis 3, 7 and 8, We see what happens. It says, and the eyes of them were both opened, and they sewed fig leaves together and hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God. Suddenly, they felt exposed, they felt vulnerable and guilty, so they tried covering themselves. They tried to hide, and that's the result of shame. That's the result of guilt. Shame is a reflex of sin. You could also call it the child of sin. They didn't just sin, they hid because they were ashamed. Shamed entered the world through sin, and ever since then, man has tried to cover himself, run from God, and hide from his failures. The word of shame comes from an old English word called, I believe how you say it, is a scammon. This means to feel guilty or dishonest so that you want to hide. And it's connected to an old root word that means to cover or to hide. And that's exactly what Adam and Eve did. They covered themselves with fig leaves and they hid from God in the trees. So the word ashamed carries out the idea of feeling so wrong, so dirty inside that you don't want anyone, including God, to see you. It's the feeling of not being enough, not being clean, and wanting to disappear. And I have a great example of this. I have two nephews and a niece that live here in Arizona and I'll go over to their house and my nephew, Mark, Uh, just a couple days ago, he was hungry. He wanted something to eat. And I was right there with him. I was hungry too. I'm always hungry. And so he asked his mom, he's like, mommy, can I have a granola bar? And she was like, no, I'm about to make dinner in about an hour. You can wait. And so we're sitting there. Me and my sister are just talking. We're hanging out. And sure enough, he walks into the living room with a granola bar in his hand. And my sister looks at him. And she says, Mark, didn't I tell you you could not have that? And he looked at her with the most guilty face you could ever see on a little kid. Almost made me laugh. It was just so guilty. It was cute. And he looked at her and he's like, I was just hungry, but I didn't mean to. And he ran off to the couch and hid his face in the couch, all curled up, all embarrassed, ashamed, guilty of what he had done. He knew he had done wrong by disobeying his mother. And he was ashamed, so he ran to the couch and hid his face in the couch, curled up, knowing that he was wrong and guilty and embarrassed because she had me and I believe my brother was there and he was ashamed and he wanted to hide and disappear from it. That's what sin causes. It makes us ashamed and therefore we want to hide our sin and we want to disappear when it's called out or when it's exposed. Sin brings shame, but God desires to redeem us from it, not to leave us in it. Mark 8, verse 38, you can turn there if you want. Mark 8, verse 38, this is a very familiar verse for most Christians. Shame is something that we all have to deal with in our life, but it's something that we choose to deal with at some points. You don't have to be ashamed if you're a Christian. If you're living righteously and according to God's word, we shouldn't have to be ashamed of anything. If we're trying our best not to sin, working on those sins in our life, repenting of the sins, we have no reason to be ashamed. Mark 8, verse 38, it says, Whosoever therefore shall be ashamed of me, and of my words, and the adulterous, and the worlds, whosoever be ashamed of me, of my words, and this adulterous and sinful generation, to him also shall the Son of Man be ashamed, when he cometh in glory of his Father, and with the holy angels. And this is a serious warning. If we are ashamed of Jesus now, if we are embarrassed to confess him, afraid to stand for him in this life, he will be ashamed of us at his return. And I think of when I see that verse, because it really applies to those people who've gone to church their entire life. And they may think they're saved because they are raised in a Christian family. They may think they're saved because they go to church every Sunday. but they've never actually gotten saved, and then they go out in the world and they're ashamed of Christ. They're ashamed to tell people about Jesus. They're ashamed to tell people they go to church. They're ashamed to tell people about any of the moral values and the teachings of the Bible when they go out into the world. And they ought not to be ashamed. First off, they might want to check and see if they're saved, if they're actually saved. Because if you're saved and you accept Jesus Christ as your Savior, you should never be ashamed of Christ. And we fall short. There's some times where we don't want to hand that track out to that big burly guy or that scary man, or we don't want to speak up boldly about something that we disagree with and that God disagrees with in that word. And we fall short there. But there's repentance because of that. So this is a serious warning of not to be ashamed of Jesus Christ. And we have a great example in the Bible, if Mark 14, verse 71, we have Peter who denied Jesus three times in one night, in the night of Jesus' arrest. And in Mark 14, 71, it says, but he began to curse and to swear, saying, I know not this man of whom you speak. Peter denied Christ. And his denial was not the end of this story. He feared for his life in the moment. He was ashamed and afraid to be associated with Jesus and feared that they would kill him too. And he denied Christ right then and there. But that's not the end of the story with Peter. The difference between Peter and the person that Mark is talking about here is Peter fell, but he repented of it later. And you'll see that. He repented and was restored. Peter's brokenness and sorrow shows that his denial was not full-hearted rejection of Christ. It was a moment of weakness. And we may have a moment of weakness. We may have that moment where we deny Christ, but there's always repentance there. The Bible says, for a just man falleth seven times and riseth up again, Proverbs 24, 16. Though Peter fell, though he denied Christ, the difference between Peter and the person that rejects Christ and is unrepentant of it, Peter felt ashamed. He ran and the Bible says he wept. and was repentive about it. He was repentive that he denied Jesus Christ. We ought not to be silent when it's time to speak up boldly of Jesus Christ. We ought not to be ashamed of his word. We ought not to be ashamed of the things that the Bible are against when we're in that crowd of people that say fornication is okay, but the Bible says otherwise. We ought not to be ashamed. We ought to be able to speak up boldly and tell them why you disagree and what the Bible says about that. The Bible says, for I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God unto salvation. Romans 1, verse 16. There is shame that the world, flesh, and the devil use to silence us. And this shamelessness that hardens us, many today are ashamed of biblical truth, whether it be creation, whether it be hell, whether it be holiness, and you have Christians that go out into the world and are ashamed to speak up and be bold about those things, because what does the world think about those things? The world disagrees with marriage and how our view on marriage is. The world disagrees with our view on sodomy and all the things that go with sodomy. The world disagrees with our standpoint on that. And yet we ought to be bold and say, hey, that's wrong. That's been wrong. The Bible says it's wrong. And we ought not to shy away and be ashamed of what we believe because there's many people that disagree with the Bible and we're the one that's standing for God in the Bible. Many today are ashamed. Many Christians go out into the world and they work jobs and they have co-workers and they're ashamed to bring up the name of Christ. We shouldn't be. Shame is dangerous when it's misdirected. Some are ashamed of truth while others have no shame about sin. Both are spiritual diseases. Today society tells us to be ashamed if you believe in biblical creation. They tell us to be ashamed if you stand for marriage. They tell us to be ashamed if you preach that Christ is the only way. But those same people are proud of fornication, are proud of greed, rebellion, blasphemy. And this month is pride month. And what do they do? They march in pride over all that. Fornication, all the pride of all the sin that goes along with that. They march over it. And there's a danger of growing callous to that emotion, that feeling of shame. You have a hard heart. You do a sin and you don't feel no shame about it. We don't feel any shame. We don't feel any necessary of repentance. You just do the sin and go on with life. And you're hardened. We see things on TV shows and movies and we hear it so often that it just becomes the normal for us to hear. The norm for us to hear cursing and sexual innuendo and all that. It's all normal and we just go on. We don't even realize it. It's a danger of growing callous to these things. What are we most ashamed of in our life? Is it the sin that we need to take care of? Because being ashamed of your sin is good. It leads to repentance. Or is it a shame that we know who Christ is and what He's done and we're afraid to speak on Christ's behalf, on the Bible's behalf? We shouldn't be ashamed. Better to be ashamed by the world than to be ashamed before Christ. Go ahead and turn to Psalms 119 if you have your Bibles still open. Psalms 119 verse 6. It's better to be ashamed by the world than to be ashamed before Christ. And it's a blessing. We have a blessing when we're Christians, a blessing of not being ashamed before God. Psalms 119, verse 6, it says, See, living in God's Word keeps us from shame. And the person who fears the Lord walks in His ways and obeys His voice has nothing to be ashamed of. Because we're living right, doing right to the best of our ability, following God, growing that relationship with God, and we have nothing to be ashamed of because of it. No matter what the world sees or does, we should never be ashamed of that. And if we're doing right, living right, we shouldn't be ashamed of it. We shouldn't be ashamed of doing right. The world may mock you for doing right, but we should not be ashamed, even when mockery comes. Living for God's Word keeps us from shame. The person who fears the Lord, walks in His ways, and obeys His voice has nothing to be ashamed of. And in the world full of compromise, the Christian should live with clean hands and a clean heart. I will say this at my work, we have so many people, I work at a big airbag factory. I work in the lab and I look at charts all day and it's boring, to be honest with you. But we have people that they hire right off the streets, come in and they start working on the factory lines. They're working, they're working. And we have in the break room, it's a whole Venmar. There's chips, sodas, sandwiches, all you could ever want. and they have cameras set up, and you have to buy it. It is not free. And every couple of months, you'll see someone walking out with the security guard, walking out with the security guard. Why? Because they got caught on camera for stealing from that break room. They got caught on camera for stealing from MRO, stealing tools out of MRO, stealing whatever out of MRO. And so there they go. The walk of shame is what I call it. Every time I see it, oh, there's the walk of shame. And we have people, every couple months, that's the reason why they got fired. Just because they can't keep their hands clean. They need that food for free, they don't want to pay for it, so they take it. They need the tool in MRO to take home, because why? It's a big company, they can afford to lose a tool. That's the way they see it. But stealing is stealing, and now they have to walk that walk of shame, and they have no job because of it. because of their sin, because of their guilt. And they walk that walk of shame. But when we live right, thou shall not steal. When we follow God's word, and we do what's right, and we know what to do, and what God expects us to do, we have no shame if we're following God's word and keeping our hands clean. That same chapter, verse 105, that word is lamp unto my feet and light unto my path. Very common verse. And if we hold to that verse, if we hold to the word of God being the lamp of our feet and the light unto our pathway, you won't have shame because you're following God's word. You're following God's instructions for life. And therefore we shouldn't have shame. Proverbs 13, verse 5, it says, a righteous man hateth lying, but a wicked man is loathsome and cometh to shame. Those who live in rebellion to God eventually find themselves ashamed. Ashamed of their choices, their fruitless paths, and the brokenness that results from sin and disobedience. From those people that walk out that gate with no job, No respect for the people who know them, all because they wanted a free sandwich and couldn't pay $3 for a sandwich. Now they're jobless. Now they have to try and find a job after being fired from their last job and explain to them why they got fired, or they'll just lie, which most people will just lie on the resume. But the walk of shame because They don't follow God's word because in their eyes, it's okay to steal because it's a big company. They can do without. That's the way they see it, but that's not the right way to see it. Stealing is stealing. No one likes a thief. No one would like if someone broke into your vehicle today and stole everything out of it. And now you have to fix a broken window or a broken door because of a thief. and then they get caught and do the walk of shame straight to jail. As Christians, we shouldn't have to be ashamed. We should be able to walk righteously in the path that God has laid out for us, using his word to instruct us through life, unashamed of Christ, unashamed because we have repented of our sins, or once we commit that sin, we repent to God immediately and we try our best not to commit that sin again. So we might walk unashamed. Jeremiah 6 verse 15 it says, Were they shamed when they had committed abomination? Nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush. I just picture all those people out who have been in those pride parades, marching down the street unashamed, some of them half naked. in that parade, unashamed of their sin, unashamed of what they're standing for, fornication, all the diseases that come with it, unashamed. There is a tragic shame that comes too late after the conscience has been hardened, after the warnings have been ignored, after the consequences have come home. It's a tragic shame when someone's conscience is so seared that they don't even see that that sin is wrong. And they don't even feel shame for whatever sin it is. I'm telling you, Christians can be that same way with whatever sin you have in your life. You're so used to committing that sin, whether it be small, whether it be big, it's a sin. And you're so used to committing that one sin that it becomes normal to do. It becomes normal to commit that sin. And we ought not to be that way. We ought to feel ashamed every time we disobey God's law. And we ought to repent of that. Many today chase success, they chase pleasure, they chase approval of men, only to find themselves empty, confused, and ashamed at the end. Without the word of God and the path, that path may seem right, but it leads to ruin. And in Proverbs 14, 12, it says, their way which seemeth right unto a man, but at the end thereof are the ways of death. That's what they have to look for. They think their way is right. They think their way is good. And they may be trying to live the best that they can. But they have no God in their life. They have no instruction to guide them the right way. And they reject God. And they have sin in their life that they're unashamed of. It may seem right to them. But it's the way of death. God's word brings clarity, not confusion to those who follow it. We also have to understand that the world is a world of confusion. We see it in movies, TV shows. They think what we know is wrong, they think is right. They think it's fun to be called evil. They think it's okay to be called a bad guy because you're cool. Oh, that dude's bad over there or whatever it is. And they call it good. They think it's okay. and they ought to be ashamed, but they have no shame. They think stealing's okay because of big corporations do it all the time, so it's okay if I steal from them. They think, you talk to someone, and maybe it's a little kid, and it says, and you tell them, hey, you can't steal, and they say, who says? Who says I can't steal? The government? They corrupt themselves. There's no authority there. until you get to God's Word, until you get to the Bible, then you have authority. God says, Thou shalt not steal. The creator of the world says, Thou shalt not steal. Thou shalt not commit adultery. Then you have authority behind that. So they feel no shame because they think it's okay. But we as Christians know better. We ought to feel shame for our sin. We ought to feel shame and regret We ought not to hide it. We ought to run to Christ and repent of it. Ezra chapter 9 verse 6. Go ahead and turn there. Ezra chapter 9 verse 6. Shame for sin should lead us to repentance. Shame for sin should lead us to repentance. Ezra chapter 9 verse 6. I have a story. When I was in school, I hated algebra. Absolutely hated it. Me and Micah. Micah was better at algebra than I am. We were in the same class. Absolutely hated algebra. I was terrible at it. I tried my best. But I was not doing very well. So I said, well, you know what? Mike is pretty good at it. I'm pretty good at these things. Mike's pretty good at these things. We can just help each other out. So we ended up, we were helping each other out all through the semester, pretty much. And then it came to the final exam, final exam of algebra. We get down and we're doing the final exam and we ended up helping each other on the final exam. I would take his answers here. He would take my answers here. We would put them together and we'd basically cheat off of each other. That's called cheating. And we cheated through algebra. But when it came to the final exam, everything got exposed. Apparently we didn't word it good enough differently or whatever, but they saw that our answers were pretty much identical. And the way that we did our math equations was identical. So sure enough the teacher calls up we get zeros on the exam Teacher calls up my mom and the principal calls and they have a meeting with my mom and says hey look these two are cheating off each other right now and they're gonna have to retake this exam and We're gonna have to put them in separate rooms. They're not gonna be able to be next to each other and she had to answer that phone call and And you know what? The look on my mom's face showed that she was ashamed of what me and Mike had done. And then as far from what I can remember, we had to end up, we ended up going into the school and she had to sit down with our principal and talk about it. And me and Micah were sitting there and our mom's like, they're not going to do it again. They're not going to do it again. I'm so sorry this has happened. And she feels ashamed for what we did. She feels ashamed for what her son has done. Because I had cheated on algebra. She felt the shame of her own son. And we see that in Ezra. We see that right here in Ezra chapter 6. Chapter 9, verse 6, it says, You know why Ezra was ashamed? Ezra returned to Jerusalem after the exile. He discovered that many of the people, including leaders and priests, were intermarried with these pagan nations, breaking God's law. And though Ezra himself hadn't committed the sin, he was overwhelmed with holy shame on behalf of the people. He was ashamed of God's people, and so he felt the need to repent to God because of what they had done. He felt ashamed because they had disobeyed God's law. If there was a word that my mom could have ever said, and she had said it a few times, and I don't know if she ever knew this, but it hit me right to the soul. If she ever looked at me and said, Philip, I am so disappointed in you. That's all she would ever have to say. And my face probably said it all, whenever she said that. And she wouldn't have to spank me. She wouldn't have to scold me. My dad wouldn't even have to scold me. He would just say, I'm just disappointed. You shouldn't have done that. That wasn't good. I'm disappointed in you. I would go to my room and sit on my bed almost in tears because of what I had done and because I had disappointed my mom, my dad, ashamed of what I had done. Would to God we would be like that with God. be ashamed, so ashamed that we would want to repent to God immediately, feel the shame and guilt of our sin, or the shame and guilt of not proclaiming Christ, that we would run to God and repent, run to God and apologize. Ezra felt the shame of these people, and so he prayed to God and repented for them. He said, oh my God, I am ashamed and blushed to lift up my face to thee. Ezra's shame wasn't about wallowing in guilt. It moved to repentance and intercession with God. This teaches us that godly shame should be led to confessing our sins and not covering it, not hiding. Even though when we do feel ashamed, we want to run, we want to disappear. That's not the right action to do. Our action should be to run to God and to repent. Not all shame is bad. Sometimes the Holy Spirit convicts us to awaken our conscience, but the goal is to always restore and not condemnation. The goal of shame is to restore you back to where you were, back to that good relationship with God. We ought to feel ashamed. We ought to feel guilty of our sin. And when we repent, we ought not to be ashamed. We ought to be confident that Christ has taken care of it. Godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation. 2 Corinthians 7 and 10. Godly shame says, I need mercy. That's what we should be. When we're ashamed, we should run to God and say, Lord, have mercy on me. I have committed this sin. And we repent it to God, we confess it to the Lord. We're not hard hearted about it. We're not unrepentant. We're ashamed and we run to the Lord. I think of the prodigal son. He was ashamed, broken, dirty. But when he returned to the father, the father didn't shame him. He ran to him. And that's exactly what God wants to do for us. When he sees that we are backslidden and in sin, and he says, just repent, I'm right here, and come back to me. Not only that, when the prodigal son ran, came up to that house and the father ran down to meet him, the Bible says he put on a new coat. He got a new coat, the best coat probably in the house. With that repentive heart. And yeah, there was consequences to his sin, but he repented. And you deal with the consequences as they come. But he was ashamed. He was sitting there in that pit thinking, why am I here? I'm here because I wanted it all. And I didn't want to live with my father and whatever it was. And so he ran back. He repented. God is right there waiting for us every time we sin, every time we commit something that is against God's law, God's Word. He's waiting for us to repent. Not only that, shame in the Bible, Hebrews chapter 12 verse 2, Jesus considered the shame of the cross as nothing compared to the joy that was set before him. Hebrews chapter 12 verse 2, Jesus bore our shame so that we wouldn't have to be ashamed living down here, living the Christian life. Hebrews chapter 12 verse 2, it says, looking unto Jesus, the author and the finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God." Jesus considered the shame of the cross as nothing compared to the joy that was set before him. Crucifixion was very humiliating. That's why the Romans did it. Not only did you die a horrible death, but you were humiliated. You were a token of shame, saying, if you go against the Roman army, if you go against whatever Caesar has said or whoever was in charge, it's going to be displayed for all to see. It was a humiliating act, public humiliation, physically excruciating and spiritual degrading in the eyes of men. It was intended to bring maximum shame, nakedness, mockery, rejection, but Christ despised that shame He didn't let it stop him. He endured it, looking beyond the joy of it, obeying the Father's will, redeeming his people, and being exalted again at God's right hand. Jesus faced the ultimate shame, but was not ashamed. He was the value of your salvation as greater than humiliation. He saw the value as your salvation greater than the humiliation of the cross. And because of that, we can have confidence. Because of that, we don't have to be ashamed. That's why Romans 10 verse 11 says, Whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed. As Christians, we walk rightly dividing the word of truth, studying that book, knowing what God likes and what God dislikes. so that we can walk a path of not being ashamed of anything that we say, anything that we do, and not being ashamed of what Christ has done, what Christ says, what God has done, not being ashamed of the gospel of Christ. The Bible and the word ashamed The word ashamed in your Bible, in scripture, the word ashamed reveals the heart's response to sin, guilt, and truth. Sometimes it's right and necessary as when shame leads to repentance. Other times it's misplaced and deadly when believers feel ashamed of Christ or his word. We ought not to feel ashamed of God and His Word, and we ought not to be ashamed to proclaim it out there, no matter if there's a group of 100 people staring us in the face, disagreeing with what we're saying. If you've ever preached on the street, I remember my first time preaching on the street, my dad took us out, Las Vegas, Fremont Street, he took us out in the morning, and he would call it the Fremont Devotions, and he would just open the Bible and start reading out of John. And I remember my first time being out there, he was like, Philip, you're gonna open up to John chapter three, and you're just gonna start reading very loudly, very slowly, very loudly. And here I am with my Bible, shaking in my boots, John chapter three, John chapter three, and he would say louder. John, louder, John chapter three, verse one. And then I start reading and you start getting the confidence and the boldness as you start proclaiming the word of God. It comes, the Lord gives it to you. Oh, you're a nervous wreck when you first go out there. but the Lord gives you the boldness that you need. Not to be ashamed to proclaim the gospel of Christ. Not to be ashamed. My dad was a great example of that. Anywhere he went, everywhere he went, he would say something, oh, the Lord is good. Oh, praise the Lord. If a lost person was standing in front of him and they said, yeah, I got my car fixed, it's running good, my dad was like, praise the Lord. And the look on their face, they're like, what? Okay, yeah, yeah. They were put off by it. They weren't used to someone saying, praise the Lord. As a lost person, that's off-putting to them. And we ought not to be ashamed to say something like that. It might just prick their heart and say, what in the world is he talking about? Praise the Lord. What is all that about? And maybe that will lead to a conversation. Why would you praise the Lord? The mechanics fixed it, not God. That's exactly what they would react, and they would go, well, the Bible says that the Lord shall supply all your needs. And I just thought it was great that you got your car fixed, and you know, you got taken care of, and you're not even a Christian. And then that might just spark a conversation, and you can say, the Lord is so good, so good to you and me, that he went, died 2,000 years ago, so that we don't have to die, and go to hell, and we live forever because of what he did. Not being ashamed of the gospel of Christ is something that we ought to all work on. Not being ashamed in front of co-workers, in front of lost family members, which that can be difficult at times. They know your past sins. They know your past. But you still, you are not ashamed. That's the past. God is forgiven. God is forgotten. And you are not ashamed. So the ultimate question whether it's not whether we feel shame but are we what are we ashamed of and what do we do with it the ultimate question is not whether we will ever feel shame but what we are but what are we ashamed of and what will we do with it There's two more points talking about shame in eternity where all the lost souls will go. And that is the great shame that they will face at the judgment seat of Christ. And then there's those that will be honored, those that live the Christian life and are saved and will be entered into heaven. But we don't have time to go through that. Two questions. What are we ashamed of and what are we gonna do with it? Let's go ahead and pray and we'll be back in about 10 minutes. Heavenly Father, Lord, I thank you for the people that showed up this morning. Lord, I pray that none of them would be ashamed in their life to proclaim your name, Lord. I pray that we would be bold, bold as lions, be able to speak your word, whether it's at work or at home or with family members or wherever we're at, the store, The gas station, Lord, I pray that we would just be bold. Lord, I pray that if anyone here has sinned, I pray that they would be ashamed of it and repent of it, Lord. We ought to be ashamed of that, but Lord, you said that we can repent and you'll take care of it, Lord. So I pray now that you would just bless these people, give us a good second service, Lord. Help us to go out of this building with boldness for you, Lord, not being ashamed of anything. I pray this in Jesus' name, amen.