The Unshakable Kingdom

 Those who have entered the Kingdom of God now have their citizenship in heaven. They pledge allegiance to Jesus as King and Lord, but because the Kingdom of God with its age-to-come quality is so different from this world, its citizens will be, in Peter’s words, aliens and strangers in this culture. It’s like they will be from another planet.

But that brings us to our mind-changing, even mind-bending, thought for today and it comes from Hebrews 12:28-29:

Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us be thankful, and so worship God acceptably with reverence and awe, 29for our "God is a consuming fire."

The world may think Kingdom people are on the strange side. But all the little kingdoms they are building for themselves will be shaken. We are in the Kingdom that cannot be shaken.

I may have a bad day, as I did this last week, one where I just felt out of sync, one where my weaknesses were on display, but I could look at another Kingdom man and say, as I did, “You know I still mess, up, by thank God I am in a Kingdom that cannot be shaken.”

The churches we are in will be shaken. Some of us have been through a few earthquakes. Our health can be shaken, our plans can be shaken, but God Almighty reigns. His faithfulness is unmoved, steady, and solid, like a rock and as we keep on receiving his Kingdom, as we pray for it to keep coming to us in new ways, we will survive and we will thrive.

The Kingdom is unshakeable. “Now,  Lord, help us have an unshakable faith in that which cannot be moved."

Scripture

Hebrews 12:22-29

22But you have come to Mount Zion, to the heavenly Jerusalem, the city of the living God. You have come to thousands upon thousands of angels in joyful assembly, 23to the church of the firstborn, whose names are written in heaven. You have come to God, the judge of all men, to the spirits of righteous men made perfect, 24to Jesus the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks a better word than the blood of Abel.

25See to it that you do not refuse him who speaks. If they did not escape when they refused him who warned them on earth, how much less will we, if we turn away from him who warns us from heaven? 26At that time his voice shook the earth, but now he has promised, "Once more I will shake not only the earth but also the heavens." 27The words "once more" indicate the removing of what can be shaken--that is, created things--so that what cannot be shaken may remain.

28Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us be thankful, and so worship God acceptably with reverence and awe, 29for our "God is a consuming fire."