Pride - Remedy: confession of sins

Carnality - when we think, act and live as if this world is our home - not living in the consciousness of eternal issues

Decline of human character

Everything is corrupt
God's remedy: make all things new

People who have a form of godliness - from such turn away

Underlying force: the occult (verse 14: evil men, enchanters)

Remedy: 2 Timothy 3:16

Doctrine, reproof, instruction in righteousness
The Scripture
The Word (chapter 4:1)

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Psalm 94:12–13:

“Blessed is the man whom you instruct, O Lord, and teach out of your law, that you may give him relief from the days of adversity until the pit is dug for the wicked.”

If you don’t see the appropriateness of that, I trust you will a little more clearly after this evening is over.

Now I want to begin by reading the passage that was assigned to me. I staggered because I thought, How could I possibly deal with so vast a theme as is contained in these words which are found in Hebrews 12:25–29.

“See that you do not refuse Him who speaks. For as they did not escape when they refused Him who spoke on earth, much more shall we not escape if we turn away from Him who speaks from heaven. Whose voice then shook the earth, but now He has promised, saying, ‘Yet once more I shake not only the earth but also heaven.’ Now this, ‘Yet once more,’ indicates the removal of those things that are being shaken, as of things that are made, that the things which cannot be shaken may remain. Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom which cannot be shaken, let us have grace by which we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear; for our God is a consuming fire.”

And then we need to turn briefly to the passage from which those words were quoted, which was in Haggai 2:6. And I read them for a special reason. That’s Haggai 2:6, and the beginning of verse 7:

“For thus says the Lord of hosts, ‘Once more it is a little while, I will shake heaven and earth, the sea and dry land.’”

And, he adds what is not stated exactly in Hebrews:

“I will shake all nations.”

So God says, “I will shake heaven and earth, the sea, the dry land and I will shake all nations.”

That’s a tremendous theme to contemplate. Our imagination can scarcely take in what is involved in the outworking of that statement, that heaven and earth, the sea, the dry land and all nations are to be shaken by the power of God.

I Will Shake All Things

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