Question 395: Should All Believers Confess Moshiach?

Answer:

Yes. There are very many good godly people who never realize the true joy that belongs to the followers of Yeshua, because they do not live in the sunlight. Some are so exceedingly sensitive about personal religion that they shrink to talk of it, even to their intimate friends. Even though they believe, they yet stand "afar off"; they have not been sufficiently drawn by love for the Master or by zeal for His service, to come near enough to the Cross to feel the glow that stimulates the ardent believer. When once these timid souls can shake off their reticence and come boldly forward and confess Moshiach before the world, a transformation takes place. There is a very real blessing which follows the confession of our faith before men. Yeshua Himself said "Everyone who shall confess Me before men, him will I also confess before My Father, which is in heaven." (Matthew 10:32.) The knowledge of such recognition, following our open acknowledgment of Yeshua as Saviour, gives courage to the believer and, like a loyal soldier who sees the flag of his country waving above him and who salutes it, his whole being thrills with zeal for service for the Great King of Salvation. Thus, at every fitting opportunity the believer should run up the flag and let the world see whom he is serving.