Chapter 12, the title of this message, What Can Be Shaken Versus What Cannot Be Shaken. What Can Be Shaken Versus What Cannot Be Shaken. Now the one spoken of in this passage THE ONE SPEAKING FROM HEAVEN IS THE LORD JESUS CHRIST. HE IS THE ONLY MEDIATOR BETWEEN GOD AND MEN. HE IS THE ETERNAL WORD OF GOD. THAT'S WHO HE IS.

From the beginning, when we read in Genesis 1-3, And God said, that person is Jehovah the Son of God speaking, it's Him speaking. He is called the Word of God because He's the REVEALER of God. No man knoweth the Father save the Son, and He to Whomsoever the Son will reveal it. There is no knowing the Father UNLESS THE SON, THE WORD REVEALS THE FATHER TO YOU. So when God speaks, it is Christ we are hearing. I can use the name Christ, I can use the name God interchangeably because He s God, He s God, He s the Son of God.

Now this starts out with a WARNING REFUSE NOT HIM THAT SPEAKETH. See that you refuse not Him that speaketh. If you turn away from the gospel is what He's saying to the Hebrews and what He's saying to us tonight. If you turn away from the gospel, you turn away from your only hope. You are turning away from Christ. WHO SPEAKS FROM HEAVEN! He's speaking from heaven. You know, this message tonight is from heaven. Do you honestly believe that? I do. It's sobering. It's sobering. That's why it's called THE BURDEN OF THE WORD OF THE LORD. But this word, this message tonight is from heaven. The Lord is speaking from heaven. and He's speaking to us, us.

You know, a similar warning is given in Hebrews 2, 1 through 4, remember? Back there, look, turn back to chapter 4. In chapter 4, listen to this, let us, verses 1 through 4, let us therefore fear, Lest a promise be left us of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it. For unto us was the gospel preached as well as unto them, but the word preached did not profit them, did not be mixed with faith. For we which have believed do enter into rest, as he hath... I think I've got the wrong one. Hebrews 2. It's still good reading, wasn't it? I had to have read that for a reason. Let's try this one.

Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest at any time we let them slip or drift away. For if the word spoken by angels was steadfast and every transgression disobedient received a just recompense of reward, how shall we escape if we neglect so great salvation which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord? and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him. But how shall we escape? So we had the warning back in chapter two, but it's a warning of neglecting, neglecting so great of salvation. I thought in my study, I thought, how do I, how have I, I have done that. Every one of us has done that. Every child of God at one time or another has neglected so great a salvation. And I thought, how do I do that? How has that happened at times?

And the best way I can explain it is this, that life went by and I hitched a ride and I ended up on the other side. That's as well as I can explain it. Life goes by and we hitch a ride and the next thing you know, we have been carried away. We've just been carried away.

But listen here, in chapter two, it has to do with neglecting so great a salvation. Well, that's bad enough, but this is worse. This is worse. Here it is refusing. refusing Christ when He speaks. That's worse. It's one thing to neglect, but it's another thing to totally refuse and reject. That's even worse. And that's what He's warning here about. You see, every time the gospel is preached, Christ is speaking. Christ is speaking. There comes a time when God saves a sinner that they go from hearing the preacher to hearing Christ.

THEY SAID CONCERNING THAT WOMAN AT THE WELL, NOW WE BELIEVE, NOT BECAUSE OF WHAT YOU SAID, WE HAVE HEARD HIM OURSELF. IF YOU NEVER HEAR HIM YOURSELF, YOU'LL NEVER BE BORN OF GOD, YOU'LL NEVER BE SAVED. I BELIEVE WHAT MY PASTOR SAYS. WELL THAT'S GOOD IF HE'S PREACHING THE TRUTH, THAT'S GOOD, BUT THAT'S NOT SALVATION.

Now listen to me, salvation is when you hear God's word. Salvation is when God's word speak to you. Faith comes by hearing and hearing comes by the word, not what I say about it. Even though I say things that are true, but it's when the word of God speaks to your heart. Am I clear? when His Word speaks to your heart. I can go to God's Word, I can go to God's Word. And I can go from scripture to different scriptures and say, this is why I believe. Here's where I stand.

Now if you stand on God's Word, nothing's gonna knock you off. But if you're just standing on what the preacher says, you're gonna have a tough time. The trial comes along when you're going to whine and cry, why me, why this? But boy, when you're standing on God's Word, you're standing on His Word, you'll have the strength to go through anything, anything God sends your way.

It has to go from me speaking to the Lord speaking to you. It has to. And every time the Gospel is preached, Christ is speaking. Every time the Word of God is being READ, Christ is speaking, God is speaking. Just reading the Word. We had the reading of the Word back in the study. God was speaking back there a little while ago. God was speaking. Tommy read, but God is speaking.

We need to realize that. It's an awesome thing when Christ speaks in His Word to us. It's an awesome thing. Hebrews begins by telling us that God spoke in times past by the prophets, but hath in these last days spoken to us by His Son. By His Son. Christ Himself said this, As I hear, I speak. The words I speak are not mine, but His that sent me. They are His words.

Turn over to John 12, the Gospel of John chapter 12. In Gospel of John chapter 12, look in verse 44. 44 through 48, and I want to show you the importance of God's Word, hearing God's Word, reading God's Word, seeking the Lord in His Word. In verse 44, Jesus cried and said, He that believes on me, believes not on me, but on him that sent me.

He that seeth me, seeth him that sent me. I AM COME A LIGHT INTO THE WORLD, THAT WHOSOEVER BELIEVETH ON ME SHOULD NOT ABIDE IN DARKNESS. IF ANY MAN HEAR MY WORD AND BELIEVETH NOT, I JUDGE HIM NOT. I CAME NOT TO JUDGE THE WORLD, BUT TO SAVE THE WORLD.

HE THAT REJECTS ME, NOW LISTEN, AND RECEIVES NOT MY WORDS. He's talking about this book right here. HAVE ONE THAT JUDGES HIM, HE HAS ONE THAT JUDGES HIM. THE WORD THAT I HAVE SPOKEN, THE SAME SHALL JUDGE HIM IN THE LAST DAY. THIS WORD IS GOING TO RISE UP IN JUDGEMENT TO THOSE WHO DON'T RECEIVE IT. THAT'S AN AWESOME MATTER.

When Christ's Word is faithfully proclaimed, Christ is speaking, and I know God uses men. He said He spoke in time past to the fathers by the prophets, but it's still Christ speaking through His Word. Now what does it mean to refuse Him that speaks from heaven? To refuse Christ when He speaks from heaven is to refuse TO REFUSE HIS WORD, HIS GOSPEL.

You take the DOCTRINE OF ELECTION, somebody and I've heard this, you know, that's not so, I don't believe that. WELL THAT'S NOT GOING TO CHANGE IT! YOU AND I BELIEVING OR NOT BELIEVING HAS NO EFFECT ON THE WORD OF GOD, IT HAS NO EFFECT ON TRUTH! TRUTH IS TRUTH! GOD'S TRUE IN EVERY MAN IS WHAT?

IS TO NOT TAKE HEED TO HIS WORD. Take heed, the Lord said, how you hear with what measure you meet it with, it shall be measured to you again. NEVER HEAR LIGHTLY. Never take the Word of God lightly. And then to REFUSE CHRIST WHEN HE SPEAKS IS TO NOT BELIEVE HIS WORD. NOT BELIEVE HIS WORD.

Be surprised how many people WHO CLAIM TO BELIEVE THE GOSPEL, WHO DON'T KNOW ANYTHING MORE ABOUT THE GOSPEL THAN WHAT THEY HEAR THE PREACHER SAY. DON'T DO THAT. BE LIKE THE BRAVE, NOW YOU ARE, I KNOW THAT, BUT THERE'S PEOPLE LISTENING HERE ACROSS THE WORLD. BE LIKE THE BRAVE BEREANS, GO HOME AND SEE IF WHAT I'M SAYING IS SO. EVEN NOW, AS LONG AS YOU'VE BEEN HERE, DO IT.

And then to refuse Christ when He speaks is to not receive His Word. It's to refuse His Word, not take heed to His Word, not believe His Word, and not receive His Word. It's like that seed that fell on that stony ground, it didn't receive it. To refuse the Lord Jesus Christ, it's not just being indifferent, it's REJECTION. He that's not for me, our Lord said, is against me. He's against me. Now what's the cause of refusing Him that speaks from heaven? Pride. Two things, pride. and self-righteousness. I think pride comes from intellectualism, self-righteousness comes from religion like the Pharisees, false religion, self-righteousness.

Then here's a consequence for refusing Him. There are consequences. There's a consequence FOR EVERY CHOICE WE MAKE, EVERY CHOICE WE MAKE HAS A CONSEQUENCE, EVERY ONE OF THEM. BUT NOW LISTEN, HE'S GOING TO GIVE AN EXAMPLE HERE, HE'S GOING TO MAKE A CONTRAST HERE.

VERSE 25, FOR IF THEY ESCAPED NOT WHO REFUSED HIM THAT SPAKE ON EARTH, WELL WHAT DID THEY NOT ESCAPE? FIRST OF ALL, WHO'S HE TALKING ABOUT? WELL HE'S TALKING ABOUT THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL AT SINAI, THEY'RE AT SINAI. And what did they not escape? Punishment. Punishment.

Hebrews 2.2 tells us this, For if the word spoken by angels was steadfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompense of reward, every transgression and disobedience, he said, received a just recompense of reward. They didn't escape punishment. They didn't escape. When they REFUSED to hear God, they didn't escape.

Under the Old Covenant, every transgression received due punishment. And He said, HOW MUCH MORE, MUCH MORE SHALL NOT WE ESCAPE. And He's including Himself in it. Oh, this is the way to preach. He's not preaching down to them. We don't preach down to the congregation. He said, we, we, we're in the same boat.

How much more, how much more shall not we escape? You see, much more brings greater light and that equals greater responsibility. WE HAVE GREATER RESPONSIBILITY FOR WHAT WE HEAR when the Lord speaks from Heaven to us. When Christ speaks from Heaven in the Gospel and sinners refuse to hear, how much SORE PUNISHMENT shall they receive? That's what the Scriptures teach us. HOW MUCH SORE PUNISHMENT? WE HAVE GREATER LIGHT! WE HAVE THE COMPLETE WORD OF GOD!

More light brings greater responsibility and greater accountability. It is a profoundly serious thing to hear the gospel, to hear it preached and refuse it, to turn your back on it. Turn over to Mark 6, Mark chapter 6. In Mark chapter 6, look in verse 10. In verse 10, listen here. And he said unto them, In what place soever ye enter into an house, there abide till ye depart from that place. And whosoever shall not receive you, nor hear you when you depart hence, shake off the dust under your feet for a testimony against them.

Verily I say unto you, it shall be more tolerable for Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment than for that city. That's serious, isn't it? That's serious. It's profoundly more serious to hear the Gospel and turn away from it than what they heard in Sinai. Now listen, it says, this word IF, IF we turn away, he says, IF we turn away. The Apostle calls his hearers here, and everyone who hears, like us tonight, TO PAUSE AND CONSIDER THIS IF. THAT IS, IN THE EVENT THAT YOU GO FORWARD IN REJECTING HIM, AND THAT WAS PART OF THE PROBLEM HE'S DEALING WITH HERE IN THE BOOK OF HEBREWS. KNOW THIS, THAT A GREATER AND SURER PUNISHMENT IS WAITING FOR YOU. IT'S WAITING FOR YOU. And now listen here in verse 26.

WHOSE VOICE THEN SHOOK THE EARTH. They knew full well He was talking about Sinai. They knew full well. They were very versed in the Scriptures. And when He said, WHOSE VOICE THEN SHOOK THE EARTH, they understood that mountain shaking and fire and darkness and thunder and lightning was going on. They understood that.

But here's the question I ask, whose voice then shook the earth? Here's the question, whose voice shook the earth? Huh? When I read that, I thought, well, look at it as a question. Whose voice shook the earth? The Lord Jesus Christ, that's who. That's whose voice shook the earth, shook that whole mountain range.

HERE AN IDENTIFICATION IS BEING MADE. THE ONE WHO SHOOK SINAI IS THE SAME ONE WHO NOW SPEAKS FROM HEAVEN, AND THIS SAME ONE IS GOING TO SHAKE HEAVEN AND EARTH. HE'S GOING TO SHAKE IT. I'LL SHOW YOU HERE IN A MINUTE. BUT I WANT US TO KNOW SOMETHING, OR SEE SOMETHING HERE, AND KNOW IT, AND KNOW IT. I want us to know and see and have some understanding of the POWER of His VOICE when He speaks, when God speaks. Look over in Psalm 29. Look in verse 3.

The voice of the Lord, Jehovah, is upon the waters. The God of glory thundereth. The Lord is upon many waters. The voice of the Lord is powerful. The voice of the Lord is full of majesty. The voice of the Lord breaketh the cedars. Yea, the LORD breaketh the cedars of Lebanon, he maketh them also to skip like a calf, Lebanon and Siran like a young unicorn. The voice of the LORD divideth the flames of fire, the voice of the LORD shaketh the wilderness, and the LORD shaketh or the voice of the LORD shaketh the wilderness, the LORD shaketh the THE WILDERNESS OF KADESH. THE VOICE OF THE LORD MAKETH THE HINDS TO CALVE, AND DISCOVERETH THE FOREST, AND IN HIS TEMPLE DOETH EVERYONE SPEAK OF HIS GLORY.

That's the Lord Jesus Christ. I just read you about the Lord Jesus Christ when He speaks. You remember when He walked on this earth? He stood up and He rebuked the wind and the waves, and they lay down at His feet, calm as it could be. You remember when a centurion came to Him and He said that His servant was sick, and the Lord started to go there, and He said, Speak the word only!

And He did, and His servant was healed. It says in John 1, 1-3 that through Him all things were made, He spoke all things into existence, and it is by His WORD, it says in Hebrews 1, 3, that all things are upheld by the WORD of His POWER! Now THAT'S POWER! That's POWER! I tell you what, he could speak tonight and raise a dead sinner from death to life. All he has to do is speak. All he has to do is say LIVE! That's all he has to do. The voice that warns us is not weak. The voice from heaven is Almighty God.

And he tells us here there's going to be a final shaking. in verses 26 and 27 and he says, Yet once more, one more time, this is going to happen one more time, I shake not the earth only like I did at Sinai, that was a small demonstration of my power. That was just a very small demonstration of the power of God. I'm going to speak one more time. And I shake not the earth only, but also heaven. Heaven. Now, let me read this to you. I got it. I think I got it. Yeah, Haggai. Haggai. Is that Haggai? Haggai? Haggai 2 Here's where this is coming from me.

He's quoting from the Old Testament in Haggai 2 6 & 7 for thus saith the Lord of hosts yet once It is a little while and I will shake the heavens and the earth and the sea and the dry land and I will shake all nations and the desire of all nations shall come and I will fill this house with WITH GLORY, saith the LORD. He's quoting Haggai is what he's doing. But now here's what he's saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven. There's two applications of this verse.

First of all, there's a spiritual shaking of the earth. Of all nations there's a spiritual shaking. When the Apostle Paul went preaching the gospel, the disciples, and the Word of God spread. Paul went out into a dark, dark, heathen world. Every place he went they had multiple gods that they worshiped, multiple gods.

They said over in the book of Acts 17-6 that these men have turned the world upside down. That was the charge. THEY'VE TURNED THE WORLD UP SIDE DOWN! GOD TURNED THIS GENTILE WORLD UP SIDE DOWN! If we could see the Gentile world, and this is one of the reasons I like history, I like watching documentaries, and I mean going way back. You really get a view of the paganism, the heathenism, The many gods, Paul goes into town and they got an altar to an unknown god.

This is in every city, he dealt with this in every city. He has shaken this world. There is a spiritual shaking, and it's still going on. This spiritual shaking is still going on. The gospel is still being preached to us Gentiles. It's still being preached in all nations.

I watched two documentaries today or this week on North Korea. It's been some time ago, but we had a person from North Korea listening, someone from North Korea. And one of the documentaries, one of the persons went across the line, they had gotten hold of the gospel and they brought it back and they killed him. That's how dangerous it is. But listen, no iron curtain can hold the gospel out. No wall can keep the gospel out. If God's going to send the gospel, I don't care if it's North Korea. If there's one sheep there, the gospel is going there.

He's going to shake all nations. Here's why. There are God's children in every kindred tongue nation under heaven, in every nation. God has a people. God has a people and God has sent the gospel to all nations and he says also that the desire there's a scripture says that the desire of all nations shall come now you look you and i look at the nations as a nation and we say well they don't desire the gospel there are people in all the nations whom god saves and they desire christ They desire His Presence, just like we desire His Presence tonight. They desire His Presence. He's the DESIRE of the nations, those whom God saves in every nation. He's the DESIRE, He's IT, He's the ONE.

But then there's going to be a FINAL SHAKING THERE IS A SPIRITUAL SHAKING THAT IS HAPPENING RIGHT NOW. GOD, THE LORD JESUS CHRIST IS SPEAKING FROM HEAVEN. THE GOSPEL IS BEING PREACHED THROUGHOUT THE WHOLE WORLD. I MEAN THE INTERNET, THE INTERNET TAKES THE GOSPEL ALL OVER THE WORLD. I KNOW THERE IS A LOT OF GARBAGE ON IT, BUT GOD HAS THE GOSPEL AND I TELL YOU THIS, WHEREVER HIS SHEEP ARE AT, THE GOSPEL IS GOING TO FIND THEM. THE GOSPEL IS GOING TO FIND THEM RIGHT WHERE THEY ARE. right where they are.

He knows exactly where they are but there's going to be a FINAL SHAKING spoken of in 2 Peter chapter 3 verse 10 and 13 but it speaks of the DISSOLUTION of this world when Christ returns. There's going to be a PHYSICAL SHAKING. We're having a SPIRITUAL SHAKING but there's going to come a PHYSICAL SHAKING. There's a spiritual shaking when the gospel is preached. There's going to be a physical shaking when Jesus Christ comes to judge this world. Even the political, listen, even the political shaking of our day are under God's sovereign control. All those political upheaval that we see.

Oh, if we could just see God's hand in it. God's hand. FULFILLING HIS ETERNAL DECREE WHICH HE DECREED AND PURPOSED IN CHRIST BEFORE THE WORLD BEGAN. GOD'S AT WORK! GOD'S AT WORK, NOTHING'S OUT OF CONTROL. NOTHING'S OUT OF GOD'S CONTROL. IT'S GOING EXACTLY, EXACTLY AS HE'S PURPOSED.

NOW WHAT WILL BE REMOVED? He says, it's going to be what can't be shaken. What can be shaken is going to be removed. What cannot be shaken is going to remain. Now what's going to be removed? And what's going to remain? Because he says, yet once more, which signifies the removing of those things that are shaken, shaken. Here's what can be shaken. The same thing that shook a few thousand years ago back at Mount Sinai.

Everything made by hands is going to be shaken and removed. That old tabernacle, that old priesthood, the ceremonies, the sacrifice, ALL OF THESE CAN BE SHAKEN AND REMOVED, AND THEY HAVE BEEN. THEY HAVE BEEN. THEY HAVE BEEN REMOVED. WHY? BECAUSE THEY CAN BE SHAKEN. THEY WERE MADE BY HANDS. THAT TABERNACLE, THOUGH GOD GAVE THE INSTRUCTIONS, WAS MADE BY HANDS. JUST TEMPORARY. JUST TEMPORARY. ALL TEMPORARY THINGS SHALL BE REMOVED.

But what CANNOT BE SHAKEN? Because this is what's going to remain, what CANNOT BE SHAKEN. First and foremost, the ETERNAL PURPOSE OF GOD, THAT CANNOT BE SHAKEN. That can't be removed. The Kingdom of the Lord Jesus Christ, I was reading over in Daniel today, of all these different kings and all these different things happening, but it said that the LORD'S KINGDOM IS AN EVERLASTING KINGDOM. IT CAN'T BE SHAKEN. DON'T WORRY, THE CHURCH IS NEVER GOING TO DISAPPEAR UNTIL GOD TAKES HER OUT.

THIS KINGDOM IS SOLID. THIS KINGDOM SITS ON A SOLID ROCK. THIS KINGDOM OF GOD IS BUILT ON A SOLID ROCK. IT AIN'T GOING NOWHERE. There's going to come a time when the United States is not going to be the United States no more. Russia, China, all of these places, all these kingdoms are going to be GONE! But there's going to be ONE KINGDOM that's NOT GONE!

That's the Kingdom of God! And you and I are in that Kingdom! We are in that Kingdom! My, my, my... Here's something else that cannot be shaken. The offices of Christ. There are no more prophets but one, Christ. He's the prophet, He IS that prophet, and we still hear Him when He speaks from Heaven. He's the High Priest, that's never going to change.

Where's Aaron? Where's Aaron at? That's over with. That priesthood is over with. But Christ our PRIEST is ETERNAL! What about the KING? Where are all the kings of the EARTH? They're GONE! But our KING is in the HEAVENS! He SITS on the THRONE! He RULES HEAVEN and EARTH RIGHT NOW! RIGHT NOW! Here's something else that CANNOT BE SHAKEN! The COVENANT OF GRACE! That old covenant, that covenant that was made back at Sinai, it's gone, it's over with. It's over with, it's gone. This covenant is called over in Hebrews 13, 20, it's called the everlasting covenant. It will never be dissolved.

Here's something else. Our justification. You know, now this is good news. You and I can never be unjustified. We can never be unjustified. I mean, we try. We give it a good run, don't we? But it's not in our hands. It doesn't rest on us. Jesus Christ died for all our sins. They're gone. They're gone. If I live to be a hundred like Doris, all my sins are gone. They're gone. Justified by the blood of Christ. That being so, I can never be unjustified. Redemption.

That's never going to change. That'll never be gone. That can't be shaken. Our inheritance in Christ, that can't be shaken. It can't be taken away. It rests on Him. The Church of the Living God, she cannot be removed. Can't do it. And here's our response, I've got to wind this down. Verse 28, Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved. It can't be shaken. It can't be moved or removed. We've been brought into His unshakable Kingdom. And by faith we have received Christ, the King of kings and Lord of lords. I am His and He is mine.

That being so, let us have grace, he says. Oh, let us have grace whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear. Let us serve him acceptably, not in ceremonies, not in hypocrisy, but REVERENTLY, SINCERELY, and ACCEPTABLY. You know, ACCEPTABLY starts with FAITH, the just shall live by FAITH. You can't serve God apart from FAITH, that's an impossibility. But let us serve Him ACCEPTABLY, REVERENTLY, and come into His presence with GODLY FEAR.

NOT HUMAN FEAR! We know what human fear is, we lock the door and we're scared to death, that's human fear. Human fear is if we don't do it right, God's going to take it out the door in a casket. That's human fear. Godly fear is a spiritual fear that's born of God.

It is a right knowledge of God It is genuine faith in Christ and it's godly. You know why it's godly? It is of God. He is God Almighty and worthy of all praise. And then it closes with this, for our God is a consuming fire. DON'T LOSE THAT REVERENCE OF GOD. Our God is a CONSUMING FIRE.

This is spoken of first in Deuteronomy 4.24 when it speaks of God being JEALOUS. It says that God is a JEALOUS GOD and in that same scripture it says He is a CONSUMING FIRE.

In other words, He must be approached in the way He has appointed, and He must be approached with a heart that's sincere in worship. You can't have two masters, you can't serve two masters. He said you can't serve mammon, money, the world, and God too. Can't do it. TO COME ANY OTHER WAY THAN THE WAY GOD HAS PRESCRIBED IS TO BE CONSUMED. Now, what is the way God prescribed? Christ said it, I am the way, the truth, and the life. No man comes to the Father but by Me.

He is a FIRE OF JUDGEMENT AGAINST HIS ENEMIES. HE'S A WALL OF FIRE PROTECTING HIS PEOPLE LIKE HE DID IN THE WILDERNESS, THAT WALL OF FIRE. And you know, another thing about fire is it's a place where you can stand and be warmed and comforted, it is. That same fire that consumes one preserves the other. So here's the final appeal.

The one who speaks from heaven is Almighty God, the Sovereign Lord, the Lord Jesus Christ. His voice created the world. His voice raises the dead. His voice shakes nations. His voice gives life to sinners. His voice shakes heaven and earth. One more time He's going to do that. one more time now see that you refuse not him that speaks from heaven for those who refuse him will not escape but those who receive him receive receive salvation in the kingdom that cannot be moved all right