Convicção
A convicção cristã é firmeza de fé que não se abala diante da oposição. É a certeza interior que compele a proclamar a verdade com ousadia, independentemente das consequências.
Ousadia para falar
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but ye shall take the virtue of the Holy Ghost coming from above into you, and ye shall be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea, and Samaria, and to the utmost [or the uttermost] of the earth.
And they saw the steadfastness of Peter and of John, and when it was found that they were men unlettered [or without letters], and lay men, they wondered, and they knew them that they were with Jesus.
And Peter answered, and the apostles, and said, It behooveth to obey to God, more than to men.
and for me; that word be given to me in opening of my mouth, with trust to make known the mystery of the gospel,
for which I am set in message in a chain; so that in it I be hardy to speak, as it behooveth me [to speak out].
For I shame not the gospel, for it is the virtue of God into health, to each man that believeth, to the Jew first, and to the Greek.
But who that acknowledgeth me and my words, in this generation adulterous and sinful, also man’s Son shall acknowledge him, when he shall come in the glory of his Father, with his angels.
Therefore do not thou shame the witnessing of our Lord Jesus Christ, neither me, his prisoner; but travail thou together in the gospel by the virtue of God;
Speak thou these things, and admonish thou, and reprove thou with all commandment; no man despise thee.
Firmeza e confiança
Não temas diante dos homens. A Palavra de Deus é fogo na boca do profeta e firmeza na vida do crente.
And the Lord said to me, Do not thou say, that I am a child; for thou shalt go to all things, to which I shall send thee, and thou shalt speak all things, whatever things I shall command to thee.
Thou that preachest to Zion, go upon an high hill; thou that preachest to Jerusalem, enhance thy voice in strength; enhance thou, do not thou dread; say thou to the cities of Judah, Lo! your God.
The Lord gave to me a learned tongue, that I know how to sustain him by word that failed; early the father raiseth [up], early he raiseth [up] an ear to me, that I hear as a master.
And I gave thy face as an adamant, and as a flint; dread thou not them, neither dread thou of the face of them, for it is an house stirring me to wrath.
And I spake of thy witnessings in the sight of kings; and I was not shamed.
and have ye your conversation [or your life] good among heathen men, that in that thing that they backbite of you, as of mis-doers, they behold you of good works, and glorify God in the day of visitation.
He that dreadeth a man, shall fall soon; he that hopeth in the Lord, shall be raised [up].
but as we be approved of God, that the gospel of God should be taken to us, so we speak; not as pleasing to men, but to God that proveth our hearts.
Ye be [the] light of the world; a city set on an hill may not be hid;
nor men tendeth a lantern, and putteth it under a bushel, but on a candlestick, that it give light to all that be in the house.
So shine your light before men, that they see your good works, and glorify your Father that is in heavens.