False Shame.
Consider:
I. What is there in Christ and His words of which men are ashamed? (1) Their reason is perplexed by the mystery of His Person; (2) their pride is humbled by the nature of His work.
II. How men may show that they are ashamed of Christ. (1) The shame of some is seen in their shrinking from the profession of His Name; (2) we can show our shame of Christ by silence and by compliance.
E. Mellor, In the Footsteps of Heroes,p. 50.
If we consider our Lord's saying on the subject of the last judgment, we shall find that there are three main failures, so to call them, for which Christians will be condemned at the day of account.
I. The first is disobedience conscious, wilful disobedience to the Gospel law.
II. The second is that of false and outward profession.
III. The third is the failure to profess the truth of which they are secretly convinced.
H. P. Liddon, Penny Pulpit,No. 1,151; see also Christian World Pulpit,vol. xxvi., p. 369.
Reference: Luke 9:26. S. A. Tipple, Echoes of Spoken Words,p. 31.