“Fear not, therefore…”

What is the cost of proclaiming God’s Word to a fallen world?

In the Old Testament, the cost was often being ridiculed, ostracized, or even arrested.  Elijah was chased out of the Northern Kingdom of Israel, because he dared to challenge the false prophets and their idols.  Jeremiah was arrested for sedition, because he had called the people to repentance and foretold the capture of Jerusalem by the empire of Babylon.  John the Baptist, who straddled the era of the prophetic promises of the O...