Each of us has faith. However, we don’t all have faith in the same object. Some trust the “almighty dollar” as the solution to life’s problems. We trust the dollar to provide security, joy, and hope. Some trust their priest to answer life’s complex questions. People look to this religious man to offer forgiveness for their sins against God. They are hoping this priest can help remove feelings of guilt and shame. Some people trust health and nutrition. Some people trust pleasure displayed in a host of different forms. The fact remains that every human has faith.

The Bible gives us the definition of faith. Faith is taking God at His Word. Faith believes that God will fulfill His promises. Hebrews 11 gives an awe-inspiring list of men and women who believed God. Hebrews 12 goes on to encourage us to live a life of faith as well. We are called to endure, laying aside anything that would hinder our faith in the promises of God. We are told to continue believing God during the hard times of discipline. God tells us He disciplines us because we are His children. Believe Him.

God spoke to the people on Mount Sinai, and it was a fearful and terrifying event! God’s people rejected Him at Sinai and paid a great price. God explains that now He has spoken to us from Mount Zion and Jesus Christ is the mediator of this New Covenant by His shed blood (vs 21-24). So, if there was judgment at Sinia, how much more will there be judgment for those who reject the message from Mount Zion? Hebrews 12:25 “See that you do not refuse Him who is speaking. For if they did not escape when they refused him who warned them on earth, much less will we escape if we reject him who warns from heaven.”

Hear what God says. Hebrews 12:26-27 “At that time, his voice shook the earth, but now he has promised ‘Yet once more I will shake not only the earth but also the heavens.’ This phrase ‘Yet once more,’ indicates the removal of things that are shaken– that is things that have been made- in order that the things that cannot be shaken may remain.”

God shook the earth, and He is promising to shake it one more time. This second shaking of the earth will be much greater than the first!

Believers, you have no need to fear this second shaking of the earth! God says in 12:28-29 “Therefore let us be grateful for receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, and let us offer to God acceptable worship with reverence and awe for our God is a consuming fire”

If you are part of God’s Kingdom, He promises that it can not be shaken! Because we are part of a Kingdom that cannot be shaken, God tells us we need to respond with thankfulness and worship! I’m so thankful that my faith is in a God who cannot lie, and that I’m apart of a Kingdom that cannot be shaken!

When God shakes this earth in the final judgment, your finances, religion, health, abilities, power, popularity, and pleasures will crumble. Those kingdoms will not stand under the mighty consuming power of God.

God in His mercy gives our idolatrous kingdom mild tremors. These tremors are warnings to us that we are not as secure as we think. God is being gracious in allowing you time to leave your feeble kingdom of self, and enter His Kingdom of righteousness by faith in His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ.

I believe a key theme here is worship. We worship the object of our faith. If you refuse to worship God and live a life of thankfulness to Him, then remember “He is a consuming fire.”

Citizens of the Kingdom of God who have entered by the narrow way of Jesus Christ, rejoice today. Your King rules and His unshakeable Kingdom will have no end!

Citizens of the small, worthless, powerless kingdom of self, mourn over your condition. Plead with the King of grace for mercy before it’s too late.