is to actually pursue it. It's to exert every effort to
promote it. Peace. Peace in our homes. Peace between husband and wife.
Peace between parents and children. Between brothers and sisters.
In the church. Between in-laws. He doesn't tell
us just to desire peace or want peace or like it better than
conflict. He said, follow it, pursue it,
seek it, and exert every effort on your part to be a peacemaker. Blessed are the peacemakers.
They're called children of God, peacemakers. It's inconsistent. with the gospel of grace and
the gospel of peace for me to be a contentious person. That's
inconsistent. It's inconsistent with the gospel
of grace for me to be a quarrelsome, unforgiving person. It's not
honoring to God. It's not honoring to the gospel.
So Paul says, follow peace. Seek it. Exert every effort to
promote peace. And then he says, follow holiness,
without which no man will see the Lord. This is a two-fold
holiness. The first, of course, you know,
is to seek the righteousness of Christ, the righteousness
of our Lord Jesus Christ. He came to this earth in human
flesh to obey the law, to obey every precept, every commandment
as a man. in the flesh, honoring God's
law, to give to us a perfect holiness, a perfect righteousness,
sanctify us, make us righteous before God. It's called the righteousness
of Christ. And without that righteousness,
no man's going to see the Lord. But there is also the holiness
of a godly walk. Now know grace, people, and you
and I. We see so much sin in ourselves
and so many things with which we are unhappy that we are reluctant
to use the term holiness in reference to ourselves, in reference to
this flesh. But what he is saying here is
believers are to walk in the spirit of holiness and not in
the flesh. That's what Paul said in Romans. Chapter 8, walk in the Spirit,
not in the flesh. To mind the things of the Spirit
and not the things of the flesh. To adorn the doctrine of God
our Savior in our conduct, in our conversation, in our attitude,
in our behavior. To follow just like we follow
peace. We don't just desire it, want
it. We follow it. We seek it. We
pursue it. We do everything we can to promote
it. What he said, follow holiness and godliness. Don't just desire
it and want it. Seek it. Exert every effort to
walk before God and man in a way honoring to Christ. Let me show
you three scriptures. Paul called it a worthy walk.
A worthy walk. Now listen to these scriptures.
Turn to Ephesians 4. A worthy walk. Ephesians chapter
4, verse 1. He says here in Ephesians 4,
1, I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you, you
believers, that you walk worthy of the vocation wherewith you
are called. Walk worthy of your profession.
This is the only place in the Bible the word vocation is used.
And it means our mission, our profession. And we are to walk
worthy of this high calling, this profession. Sons of God. Walk worthy of that. In Colossians
chapter 1, Colossians chapter 1 verse 10, again he uses this
Walk worthy. He said, walk worthy of the vocation,
the mission, the profession wherewith you are called. Now verse 10,
Colossians 1, walk worthy of the Lord. Walk worthy of the
Lord Jesus Christ who loved us and who gave himself for us.
Walk worthy of him under all pleasing, being fruitful in every
good work and increasing in the knowledge of God. Walk worthy
of the Lord. Now turn to 1 Thessalonians,
chapter 2, and he tells us here in 1 Thessalonians,
chapter 2, verse 12, that you should walk worthy of God, your
Father. Walk worthy of God who called
you unto his kingdom and his glory. peace and holiness without which
no man shall see the Lord. Now verse 15. Before I read verse
15, let me proceed with this comment. I've told you many times
that the book of Hebrews is indeed a book of promises. Promises
in Christ. A book of assurances. But as
I've been going through Hebrews in these messages, I can't tell
you how many times people have come by me at the door and said,
I enjoyed that message, it's so comforting. It gives me so
much confidence of a hope in Christ. And that's what Hebrews
does. It gives us a confidence and
comfort in our hope in Christ. But Hebrews is also a book of
warnings. It's a book of warnings to all
believers to continue in the faith and not depart from the
gospel. Just read two or three. Turn
back to Hebrews 2. Hebrews 2, verse 1. One of our men used to say, Brother
Jeff Thornberry, used to tell us, the book of Hebrews hedges
us about on one side with the promises of God, lest we despair. On the other side were the warnings
of God, lest we presume. I don't want to despair, but
I don't want to presume. And so the book of Hebrews keeps
us in that straight path. Now here in Hebrews 2, verse
1, it says, therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed
to the things which we've heard lest at any time we let them
slip away, slip away. And then in Hebrews 3 verse 12,
here's a warning, take heed brethren, lest there be in any of you an
evil heart of unbelief in departing from the living God. And of course that Hebrews 10,
turn over there to Hebrews 10 verse 38, Now, the just shall live by faith. The just shall live by faith,
but if any man draw back, my soul hath no pleasure in him.
But we are not of them that draw back unto perdition, but of them
that believe to the saving of the soul. Now, here in verse
15, our text, Hebrews 12, is another one of those warnings. It is a threefold warning. It
starts with less each time. Hebrews 12, 15, look at it now. Hebrews 12, 15, looking diligently,
looking diligently. We'll talk about where we're
looking in a moment. The first list, looking diligently,
lest any man fall from the grace of God. What is that? Not from religion. Most men don't
fall from religion. But some people do fall from
the grace of God. Now, what's this mean? Well,
we have to go back to Galatians 5. This is what it is to fall
from grace. Fall from grace. You've heard
it all your life. Fall from grace. It's not to
sin, or you'd have one fall from grace every day. It's not even
to come short of the glory of God, or every one of us fall
every day. is not to break the law of God,
spiritual law of God, or every one of us to fall from grace.
It's what it says it is, to fall from grace and go to works for
salvation. It's to fall from pure grace,
free grace, sovereign grace, God's grace in Christ, to fall
from grace, salvation by grace. It's a gift of God. Not by works,
as any man should boast. And to fall from there is to
fall to one place. There's just one alternative
to grace. That's work. There's just one alternative
to salvation of all of God, and that is salvation of man. And here in Galatians chapter
5, Paul tells us what it is. Verse 1, Galatians 5, Now stand
therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made you free, free
from the law, free from ceremony, free from bondage. Don't be,
be not entangled again with that yoke of bondage, such as Sabbath
keeping, tithing, law in order to gain favor with God, seeking
favor and peace with God by what I do, what I give, what I sacrifice,
what I don't do. Don't do that and I don't fall
back into that bondage. Christ says, free it up. He had
delivered us. Now, behold, I, Paul, say to
you, if you be circumcised, Christ will profit you nothing. Now,
how in the world do you interpret a verse like that? Most of the men and boys that
are born in this world are circumcised. It's why you do it. These Jews
were circumcised because of the law, and they were afraid if
they weren't circumcised, they wouldn't be saved. That's what
some of these people taught in the New Testament. In order to
be saved, you've got to become a Jew. You've got to be circumcised,
you've got to keep the Sabbath day, you've got to pay 10%, you
have to go to the Holy Land, you have to do all these things
or you can't be saved. Now Paul says, if you do anything,
even if it's being circumcised or keeping a day or giving a
gift, you do anything in order to find favor with God. Christ
won't profit you anything. It's all Christ or nothing. Isn't that a serious charge? You say, I've got to go to church
on Sunday. Why have you got to go to church
on Sunday? Because if I didn't, I'd perish, I'd be lost. You're
lost already. If you do anything in order to
find favor with God, Christ doesn't prophet. You're falling from
Christ into this ceremony in works. Look at verse 3. I testify
again to every man that's circumcised, he's a debtor to do the whole
law. Now, if you're going to go back to the law, if this pastor
is going to stand up here and tell you that Sunday is the Sabbath,
and you have to keep the Sabbath like the Jews, Sunday like the
Jews did Sabbath, I put you under an obligation not only to keep
Sunday, Keep every law of the Old Testament, dietary laws, laws for the ladies, men, laws,
the laws for everything you turn and do. You are obligating yourself. You have got to walk the road
of pure grace or pure law. There is no straddling the thing. Verse 4, Christ has become no
effect to you. If you're justified by the law,
you've fallen from grace. Now, there it is. Now, if you
can't understand that, you can't understand 2 and 2 is 4. Isn't
that plain enough? That's exactly what that's saying.
The baddest woman has fallen from grace, who has taken upon
himself to do something up, gain favor with God. Verse 5 says, We, through the
Spirit of God, we wait for the hope of righteousness, not by
deeds, not by works, but by faith in Christ. So, look diligently now, lest
you fall from grace. Our motivation for praying, worship,
godliness, giving, obedience, anything has got to be because
of the love of Christ and not to earn the love of Christ. It's
just got to. Because we love him. Because
he's with him. Because we're walking worthy
of our vocation. We're walking worthy of our Lord.
We're walking worthy of our Father. We're walking the way we want
to walk. That's what we want to do. So don't. Look diligently lest you fall
from grace. Now here's the second list. Look
diligently lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you and
thereby many be defiled. This is written to believers.
In other words, here I am a believer, and I'm in a wonderful family
of believers. But I let some conflict with
a person, with an individual in that family, so disturb me
and disrupt me, that a root of bitterness sprang up in my heart,
and I quit the fellowship. and walk away. I've seen this
happen again, and again, and again, and again. Somebody fall
out with a pastor, or fall out with someone in the congregation,
or something someone does, and the root of bitterness is in
his own soul, in his own spirit, and he quits. And that root of
bitterness, that root of bitterness bringing up troubles, hear them
and listen. And many are touched and devoured. And he's not only now separated
from the fellowship and separated from the Word of God and separated
from worship and separated from the blessings of God, but he's
taken somebody with him. His children. And if he doesn't love the fellowship,
they're not allowed to either. If he doesn't worship God, they
can't go either. Now, look indeligently. I don't
want to fall from the grace of God and try to find acceptance
with God by works. But I don't want to cut my soul
off from God because I can't be peaceful and forgive and love
one another. Don't you do that now. Don't
you do that. And I say that to you men and
women strongly. You've got children you influence
and loved ones, and don't do that. This is a warning from
God. All right, here's the third lest.
Lest you fall from the grace of God, lest a root of bitterness.
And let's just call it what it is. That's what it is. It's bitterness.
Bitterness. It's a bad spirit. It tastes
bad. It feels bad, because it's evil. It's not of God. Division is
not of God. Separation is not of God. Forgiveness
is of God. Now here's the third one. It's to sell out. Compromise
the gospel and sell out. Here's the other list. Lest there
be any fornicator or profane person as Esau, who for one morsel
of meat for this world to satisfy his appetite, He sold his birthright. Now he wasn't a believer anyway.
He wasn't a child of God anyway. It says he was a profane person. He wasn't a child of God. What
is a profane person? Well, turn to 1 Timothy 1. This
will tell you what Esau was. He was a profane person. 1 Timothy 1.9. 1 Timothy 1.9.
It says, Knowing this, the law is not
made for a righteous man. The law is not made for a godly
man. Locks on doors are not there because of godly men, they are
because of ungodly men. I don't lock my car out there
tonight in the church parking lot because if everybody was
like you, I wouldn't even ever lock it. But it's for the unrighteous.
The law is for the unrighteous. Listen, go on. The law is not
for righteous men, it's for lawless people, disobedient, ungodly
people, sinners, unholy, profane, murderers of fathers and murderers
of mothers. That's Esau. And the birthright
he showed, he regarded it so lightly. What
is a birthright? Well, it wasn't the family farm.
It was the favor of God. It was the place of the priest
of the home. And to him, that was regarded so lightly that
he was willing to trade it for a bowl of beans. Trade it for almost nothing,
just something to satisfy this flesh. Swap his birthright for
something that satisfied his appetite. And verse 17 says,
you know, afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing,
when the time came for the blessing to be inherited, he was rejected. And he found no place of repentance.
Not then. Though he sought it carefully
with tears. No place. Well, there's three warnings
that, looking diligent, If you fall from the grace of God and
think that God is impressed with what we do, put what we do beside
Christ and it's a nothingness. And lest we let
a root of bitterness spring up and overwhelm us and overcome
us and separate us from the presence of God. Lest we, as a profane person,
swap this treasure, this riches of Christ for the treasures of
Egypt. Now, back on to in verse 15, it says, look diligently. Where? How about verse 2 of chapter
12, looking unto Jesus. That's a good start. That's a
good start. Looking unto the Lord Jesus Christ. That's where we look. Keep your
eyes on Him. Consider Him. If you look at
Him, you sure won't put your works anywhere around Him. You won't say, see what I've
done. You'll be saying, see what He's done. You sure wouldn't
let a root of bitterness spring up while you're looking at Him
who cried, Father, forgive them. They don't know what they do
after they've driven nails in His hands on the cross. You sure couldn't turn on Me
prayed for you, whoo, look into Jesus. And then you sure couldn't
swap, if you're looking to Him on His throne and the glory of
His presence, would you swap that for something here? Temporary? So there's the key, look into
Christ, look into His Word, and then I think the third place
is look to ourselves. Keep a watch on our own hearts. Keep thy heart. Watch what you
see boiling in there. Keep your heart out of the edge
of the issues of life. Keep your heart out of the edge
of the issues of life. Run a check on it every once
in a while. Keep your heart. All right, let's look at verse
18. You know, when we were talking
a while ago about works, trying to mix works with grace, it says
here in verse 18, We are not colors of the mount, sinai, which
might be touched, but better not be touched, and that burn
with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest, and
the sound of the trumpet, the voice of the words, which voice
they that heard entreated, that the word should not be spoken
to them anymore. We're going to read that in a
minute. They couldn't endure that which was commanded. You
can't, I can't. If so much as a beast touched
the mountain, it shall be stoned or thrust through with a dart.
And so terrible was that sight that Moses said, even Moses trembled
and quaked. Now you don't want to come there,
do you? Let's look over at Exodus 19 And see about this, Exodus
19, this is a frightful scripture. Giving of the law. I think often
of Paul's statement in Galatians, you that would be under the law,
don't you hear the law? Exodus 19, verse 19, And when
the voice of the trumpet sounded long, waxed louder and louder,
Moses spake, and God answered him by voice, The Lord came upon
Mount Sinai on the top of the mount. The Lord called Moses
up to the top of the mount, and Moses went up. The Lord said
unto Moses, Go down and charge the people, lest they break through
unto the Lord, degaze, and many of them perish. Let the priests
also which come near to the Lord sanctify themselves, lest the
Lord break forth upon them. And Moses said to the Lord, The
people cannot come up to Mount Sinai. But thou chargest us,
saying, Set bounds about the mountain, sanctify it. And the
Lord said unto him, Away, get thee down. Thou shalt come up,
thou and Abram with thee, but let not the priest and the people
break through to come up unto the Lord, lest he break forth
upon them. Don't come. So Moses went down
to the people and spake unto them. And God spake all these
words, saying, I am the Lord thy God, which brought thee out
of the land of Egypt. out of the house of bondage,
thou shalt have no other gods before me, not materially, and
not mentally, and not emotionally. Thou shalt not make unto thee
any graven image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven
above, or earth beneath, or in the water under the earth. Thou
shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them. For I,
the Lord thy God, am a jealous visiting the iniquity of the
fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation
of them that hate me, and showing mercy unto thousands of them
that love me and keep my commandments, I shall not take the name of
the Lord thy God in vain. For the Lord will not hold him
guiltless that taketh his name in vain, carelessly, recklessly,
even in thought. Remember this Sabbath day to
keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labour and do all thy work,
but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God. In it thou
shalt not do any work, thou nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor
thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy strangers
within thy gates. In six days the Lord made heaven
and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, the rest of the seventh
day. Wherefore the Lord blessed the
seventh day and hallowed it. Honour thy father and thy mother,
If thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God
giveth thee, thou shalt not kill. You know, the Lord Jesus interpreted
that one, to hate one in your heart is to be guilty of murder.
Thou shalt not commit adultery. He interpreted that one to think
it's to be guilty of it. Thou shalt not steal. He interpreted
that one. Thou shalt not covet. To desire
what you don't have or more than you have is to covet and to steal.
Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor. Don't stretch
the truth. Don't lie. Thou shalt not covet
thy neighbor's house. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's
wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox,
nor his ash, nor anything that is thy neighbor's. Perfection,
that's what God requires. And all the people saw the thundering,
the lightning, and the noise of the trumpet, the mountain
smoking, and when the people saw it, They ran and bowed down
and said, Lord, we'll do thy will. And they removed and stood
afar off. And they said to Moses, speak
thou with us, and we'll hear. But let not God speak with us,
lest we die. And Moses said to the people,
Fear not, God has come to prove you, that his fear may be before
your faces. Do you see or not? And people
stood afar off. That's the best place you stand
where the law is concerned, the far off. The far off. The far off. Well, let's go back to the text.
It says in verse 18, you're not come to Mount Sinai. Verse 22. See, we read, but we're not come
to the law, to Sinai. We're come to Mount Zion. What
is Mount Zion? That's the church. Mount Zion
is the church. Turn to Revelation 14. Revelation
14. Mount Zion in the Old Testament
and the New Testament is the church. It's the kingdom of God.
We're going to see it clearly in just a moment. In Revelation
14, I looked and Loa Leum stood on Mount Zion. We just had a
good look at Mount Sinai. But a lamb, the Lamb of God,
the sacrifice, the blood offering, the atonement, stood on Mount
Zion, and with Him, a hundred forty and four thousand having
His Father's name written on their forehead. That's His people,
the lambs with Him. No thundering and lightning,
no blackness and darkness. No getaway, don't come near,
don't come near God, don't come near the Lord, you're unholy
and unclean. What a lame. Sacrifice for sin. So we come, verse 22. You are
not come to Mount Sinai, but, now let's look at it, Mount Zion,
under the city of the living God. The church of the Lord Jesus
Christ is His habitation. It's God's dwelling place, the
church. We are a living temple built
by Christ against which the gates of hell shall not prevail and
every believer is a living stone in that temple of the living
God. You come secondly to heavenly Jerusalem. The Lord's church
is called in the Old Testament and the New Testament Jerusalem.
The word Jerusalem means a vision of peace. Under the law, they
came to Jerusalem to worship at the temple. Under grace, we
come to the heaven of Jerusalem. To an innumerable company of
angels. We talk about the armies of heaven. God does his will
among the armies of heaven. That's the angels and the inhabitants
of the earth. The angels of God worship Christ
as we do. And in our present state, they
minister to us. They're called our guardian angels.
They're called ministers to the heirs of salvation. That's where
we come. To the city of God, to the heaven
of Jerusalem, not to a place on earth, but in innumerable
company of angels, and then verse 23, to the general assembly and
church of the firstborn. which are written in heaven,
which are enrolled in heaven. Some people have trouble with
this word church. Ekklesia, church. What's the
meaning of the word? Assembly. Well, how can an invisible
church be an assembly? That's the question there. So
you can't have a universal church or Invisible church, invisible
to us. You've got to have a local church
only. But this says to the general assembly, not to the assembly
in Galatia or Ephesus or Antioch, to the general assembly, the
church of the firstborn, the firstborn of all men, Christ,
and us who are firstborn. We are the firstborn too, just
like we're the righteousness of God. and which are enrolled
in heaven. The road's not kept down here
in a local church. How many people you got on your
road? Well, really what difference does it make? Our Lord said,
don't rejoice that the demons are subject to you. Rejoice that
your names are enrolled in heaven. The names written in the Lamb's
Book are lies. The preachers still hadn't handled the word
assembly. Ekklesia is an assembly. a church and assembly. This is
written to a general assembly. When is this church ever an assembly? Well, number one, it was assembled
way back yonder before the world began in his purpose. Everyone
chosen in Christ, everyone known, loved, elected, and chosen in
Christ, assembled in his purpose. Names written in the book. They
were assembled in His Son. When our Lord Jesus Christ came
to this earth, He represented every one of them. Every single
one of them. And when He went to the cross,
He went there for every one of them. And when God the Father
looked upon Him and His sacrifice, His obedience, and His sacrifice,
His blood, He saw every one of His sheep redeemed in Him. He bore all our sins in His body.
And thirdly, they assemble right now. We're here. We're here in each other's presence.
But my dear friends, all over this world they're meeting tonight.
I know a little group down there in Thatcheebitchee, Yobain, Zimbabwe,
Africa, Russia. Our Lord's in every place. He
said where two or three are met in my name, I'll be in their
midst. They can't be assembled all of
them in my presence, but they sure can be assembled in His
presence who is everywhere. That's sufficient isn't it? That's
we've come, that's we've come to that, to the City of the Living
God, to the New Jerusalem, Heavenly Jerusalem, to the Numerable Company
of Angels, and to the General Assembly, the Church of the Firstborn. whose names are enrolled in heaven.
And look at this next line, and we come to God, the Judge of
all. But I don't want to come before
God, the Judge. You can come right on with boldness,
because the Judge has judged Christ in your place, and there's
no condemnation, no judgment for you. Come on. Come to God,
the Judge of all. And what's this? We come to the
Spirit. Three things here. The Spirit. This is a spiritual fellowship. Paul said to the church one time,
let me read you this. Paul said to the church one time,
he said, though I'm absent from you in
the flesh, I'm with you in the Spirit. So really, our fellowship
doesn't depend on us Being here every time we meet,
we're here even when we're there. Now what he's saying, it's a
spiritual fellowship. And it's a spiritual fellowship
of what? Just men. Justified men and women. And
justified men and women who are in Christ and they're perfect. I hear people say, well I'm looking
for the perfect church. I found it. This is it right
here. This is it. The church of the
firstborn. It's the perfect church. Oh,
there's faults among every member, but not in God's sight. They're
perfect in His sight. And rest in Him. Enter Jesus. We're not come to Mount Sinai. We come to Jesus. The mediator
of a new covenant. That old covenant's taken away.
It's a new covenant. New testament in His blood. The
blood of Spranklin, not the blood of the rivers of blood that flowed
through that old temple, but the Spranklin of the blood of
Christ. It speaks a lot better things than that of Abel. So
verse 25, let me give you this and close. Several things here. I see that you refuse not him
that speaketh. If they escape, not who refuse
him that spake on earth, Moses, Abraham, Samuel, much more shall
not they escape if we turn away from him that speaks from heaven.
God spoke to our fathers by the prophets, he spoke to us by his
Son, whose voice then shook the earth. But now he hath promised,
saying yet once more, I shake not the earth only, but also
heaven." When did he do that? I know you'll want to turn to
Haggai. I know you'll want to see this, because these two verses
have got to have this scripture. Haggai, chapter 2. Haggai, Zechariah,
Malachi. That's the end of the Old Testament.
It's the third book from the end. Haggai, chapter 2. Now here's
what we just read. "...whose voice then shook the
earth, but now he promised." Yet once more I shape not only
the earth, but heaven also. Here it is in Haggai 2, verse
5. It's the coming of Christ to the earth. Haggai 2, verse
5. According to the word that I
covenanted with you when you came out of Egypt, the Passover,
so my spirit remaineth among you, fear ye not. 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 seas, and dry land. I
will shake all nations, and the desire of all nations shall come."
Christ. And I'll fill this house, my
temple, with glory, saith the Lord. The Lord of hosts will come to
his temple. He did. The silver is mine, the
gold is mine, saith the Lord, and the glory of this latter
house, they rebuilt the temple, you remember, will be greater
than the former, because Christ is coming to the temple, saith
the Lord of hosts, and in this place I'll give peace, saith
the Lord of hosts. That's the shaking. That's the
shaking. This temple, this living temple,
living stone, not that He came to the temple in Jerusalem, but
we're talking about his church. Now watch verse 27 now in our
text. And this word, yet once more,
signifying the removing of those things that are shaken, the removing
of all those things that are shaken, as of things that are
made. That's everything associated
with the law, isn't it? The temple, the mercy seat, the
ark, the brazen labor, the candlesticks, the shell bread, the altars,
everything that's made, those things that are shaken. The removing of all those things
that are shaken as of things that are made, that those things
which cannot be shaken. What's that? Christ. His blood. His sacrifice. His church. The gates of hell shall not prevail
against His people, His kingdom, His redemption. That's what can't
be shaken, that that which cannot be shaken may remain. Everything
that's made can be shaken, but that which is of God, eternal,
spiritual, cannot be shaken. Don't look at anything that's
made. We don't wreck crosses, or wear
uniforms, or walk in procession, or do anything that this flesh
can make, or concoct, or bring together. You'd be shaken. Look
to Christ. Believe Him. You cannot be shaken. You cannot
be taken away. Wherefore, we receive in a kingdom
which cannot be moved. Let us have grace. Let us hold
fast to grace. Let us hold the gospel of grace.
Salvation by grace. Worship God and serve God acceptably. How can you worship God acceptably?
In Christ. With reverence and godly fear.
Our gods are consuming fire. He's a consuming fire to his
enemies in that he will devour them. He's a consuming fire to
his church in that he purifies us. He purifies us. And he protects us. All right,
I pray the Lord will bless that to your...