Collierville First Baptist Church

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Our Heavenly Father, I thank you for the opportunity we have tonight to come and to open our Bibles and to study. I pray, father, that you would make the Word of God come alive, because your word is a living book. It's a living and powerful Word of God. And I pray that you would unleash the power and the practicality and the principles of your word to to really minister to our hearts and help us to be the the believers that you've called us to be.

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Father, I pray that there's anyone watching live stream or in this room who is not a believer. I pray the Holy Spirit would drop the, the gospel into their hearts, bring them to conviction, to conversion, and ultimately to, consider creation. Where, please, where we love you and we pray that you would be honored and glorified as we put ourselves under your word and under the ministry of the Holy Spirit tonight, in Jesus name.

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Amen. You know. The book of Hebrews has five warning passages, and these warning passages will curl the hair on the back of your big toes, I promise you. We're gonna. I just want to introduce them tonight. But before I do, I want you to think about the idea of warnings. You know, we live in a society where people are looking for opportunities to sue somebody about something.

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Okay. A hair dryer warning label advised. Do not use while sleeping. Now, that's very silly. In. And then a portable stroller. Warn. Caution. Remove before folding for storage. A package of fireplace logs said caution risk of fire. A snow sled label stated beware sled may develop high speed under certain snow conditions, and a fold up windshield screen to block the sun on your car.

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You know you park and you put this screen on your front windshield. It read, it said this do not drive with screen in windshield.

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Now I've read these warnings and I thought, man, that is absolutely crazy, but I won't tell you the warnings that you find in the book of Hebrews. They're not funny and they're not crazy. They are serious as a heart attack. The first warning in the book of Hebrews is chapter two, verses one through four, and it's a warning to not drift away.

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The next one is in chapter three, verse seven to chapter four, verse two. And it's a warning to not harden your heart. Have you ever been around anybody with a hard heart? Whoa, man, they're hard to deal with. Are they? And then number three, the third warning do not remain immature. Hebrews, Hebrews chapter five, verse 11 to chapter six, verse 12.

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And then don't despise God's grace. Chapter ten, verse 19 to 39. And then the one we're going to look at tonight is a final one. Number five, don't refuse to listen to God. Listen to God. Listen to what God's saying in his word. Look at what God's doing around us. That's the essence. Of the warning that we're going to look at tonight.

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Don't don't you long for someone to speak with authority in the midst of the chaos that we're surrounded by, to speak truth in this kind, a world. Don't you long for someone that is not influenced by political preferences. To speak into the situations that we find ourselves. Let me tell you, God does that in his word. I was talking with an individual, today, and I told him, I said, listen, one of our core values is we are a Bible based church.

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We believe that the Bible is our final source for faith and practice. And it's not just a string of pretty words that we put on a on a web page. It is, in essence, who we are. It's who we are as a church. It's who every church should be and every believer. So paying attention to God's Word is not optional for those who call themselves Christians.

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It is absolutely imperative. Now, I've listed three reasons we should pay close attention to the Word of God. Number one, it is a powerful word. It's a powerful word in Hebrews chapter 12. And we're going to look at Hebrews chapter 12, verse 25 to 29, Hebrews chapter 12, verse 25 says, see to it that you do not refuse him who is speaking.

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For those who did not escape, when they refused him, who warned them on earth? Much less will we escape, who turn away from him? Who warns from heaven. Now this plays right into the text we looked at last Wednesday. Look at, chapter 12 verses. See 18 to 24. Look at it for you've not come to a mountain that can be touched into a blazing fire, into darkness and gloom and whirlwind, and to the blast of a trumpet and the sound of words which sound was such that those who heard begged that no further word be spoken to them, for they could not bear the command.

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If even a beast touches the mountain, it will be stoned. And so terrible was a sight that Moses said, I am full of fear and trembling. Now that's a reference. Those verses are references to Mount Sinai, where the children of Israel were led by Moses to Mount Sinai, and Moses went up on Mount Sinai and received the law.

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Right. And God, listen. God spoke to the nation Israel, audibly, audibly, and it scared them to death. You remember what they said to Moses, Moses. You go up there and you hear from God, and you come back and you tell us what God said, because we're going to die. If we keep hearing the audible voice of God. And Moses did that, and we know what happened while Moses was up on Mount Sinai, I don't mean but look at verse 22, the it changes here.

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We go from Mount Sinai to Mount Zion, Mount Zion. But you have come to Mount Zion, to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to myriads of angels, and to the general assembly and church of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, and to God the judge of all, and to the spirits of the righteous made perfect, and to Jesus the mediator of a new covenant, to the sprinkled blood, which speaks better than the blood of Abel.

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And Mount Zion in this particular situation is referring to the heavenly Jerusalem. It's to have a song about heaven. But now look at verse 25. You see how it plays into it. See to it that you do not refuse him who is speaking for those who did not. If those did not escape, when they refused him, who warned them on earth?

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Much less shall we escape? Who turn away from him? Who warns from where? Heaven, the heavenly Mount Zion. Now that's a powerful word. See to it that you do not refuse him who is speaking. That is a present tense verb. Present tense means it's continuous. In other words, we should continuously be listening and observing the Word of God and applying it to our lives.

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So God is speaking to us today through His Word and his providential workings in the world. Now just think about what's happening in our world today. Let's take the Middle East. Let's take what happened with Israel on October the 7th, 2023. That was a horrendous, move by Hamas to come in and slaughter the Jewish people, the largest slaughter since the Holocaust.

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And you say, well, what's God saying to us? I'll tell you what God's saying to us. You better watch what's happening in Israel. If you want to know the prophetic implications of what's happening in our world. You watch what's happening in Israel. And so God's doing some things, God saying some things to us, not only from the written word of God, but from the activity of God in the world today.

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I mean, look at that election we just went through.

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God speaking to us. He's speaking to the world. I believe God gave us a window of opportunity. Now, what we do with that, what we do with that is dependent upon how we respond to the Word of God. Now, I can tell you, I don't. I don't care if it's Kamala Harris or Donald Trump. No politician is going to solve the problems of our world.

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No politician is going to solve the problems of America. We need God. We need to turn back to God, as there was a time when this nation experienced great spiritual awakenings. You ought to read about that sometime. It's phenomenal. Let let me tell you about Jonathan Edwards. Jonathan Edwards in the first grade awake. He had he couldn't see.

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He had glasses and the the glasses were like coat hands, a Coke bottles, glass Coke bottles. And God gave him a word for the church. And you know what he did? He wrote out a manuscript. He took the manuscript as God is my witness. He held it up and he read it. There was no looking at the audience.

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He just read it. You know what happened? The Spirit of God moved. The Word of God became alive. And people in that church began to hold on to the columns of the church because they felt like they were falling into hell. You know what the title of his sermon was? Sinners in the hand of an Angry God. And I'm telling you, it was a move of God in that move of God to spread across our nation, and thousands upon thousands upon thousands of people were swept into the kingdom of God.

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And this nation had a great awakening. Now, wouldn't you lot love to see that again? Yes. God is the answer to what we need. My prayer for this lecture was that God would put into office the person that he wants in the office. Amen. That was my prayer. And I thank God that he put Donald Trump into office.

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But I'm tell you some my hopes are not hitched to Donald Trump. My hope is hitched to the Lord Jesus Christ and to the word of the living God. Now, if we had better listen to when God speaks, command.

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If God shook things at Mount Sinai and he did. You remember the mount on the mount? Mount Sinai just shook. There was fire and and lightning and and thunder. And if God did that at Mount Sinai, and those who refused to hear him were judged and they were judged. How much more responsible are we today? Think about it.

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We are part of the New Covenant. Jesus has died on the cross. We look back to historical fact when the son of the living God was incarnated, God sent his only begotten son to this world to save sinners just like us. He was resurrected from the dead after he died on the cross. And after 40 days, he ascended back to heaven.

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Eyewitnesses wrote the the New Testament that we study and we love, and we have the Bible. We have a full Old Testament, a full New Testament. Let me tell you the the the guys and ladies and kids who stood around Mount Sinai. They didn't have a Bible. We got a Bible. If you're a born again believer, the Holy Spirit of God indwells you.

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God himself has taken up residence in your life. Your body has become the temple of the Holy Spirit. Our privileges, our spiritual privileges are out in the wazoo. I don't know if that's a term you understand, but we got a bunch up, okay? We got a bunch of spiritual privileges, and we do not need to waste those privileges.

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That's what the writer of Hebrews is saying to to a Jewish audience, many of whom had believed. But what they were considering going back into Judaism. Remember the context. Don't forget the context. So God is speaking. Look in Hebrews chapter one, verses one through two. The Bible says God after he spoke long ago to the fathers in the prophets in many portions, and in many ways.

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Look at these in these last days. Do you know what the last days are right now? Right now. Do you know when the last days began? After Jesus died on the cross, was resurrected from the dead and ascended to heaven? That's one of the last days. Started. We've been in the last days for 2000 years. Now you know what that tells me.

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I'm not the smartest guy in the world, but that tells me that we're 2000 years closer to the return of Christ than when this book was written. Book of Hebrews, written. So God, after he spoke long ago to the fathers in the prophets, in many portions, in many ways in these last days, has spoken to us in his Son.

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Do you remember what, John one one and 14 says, in the beginning was the word. The logos speaking of Jesus. And the word was with God. It is now. And the word was God. Verse 14, and the word became flesh. Jesus was incarnated into the human race and the word became flesh and dwelt among us. And we beheld his glory, glory as of the only begotten of the father, full of grace and truth.

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And the Bible says that the Lord Jesus explained in John's Gospel it says, he explained God to us. He came so that we could understand who God is and what God's attributes are, and how we can have a relationship with the living God through the Son of God. Look at Hebrews chapter, chapter 12, verses 1 to 3. For this reason, we must pay much closer attention to what we've heard.

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Pay close attention to the Word of God so that we do not drift away from it. For the words spoken through angels proved unalterable, and every transgression and disobedience received a just penalty. How will we escape if we neglect so great a salvation? After it was at first spoken through the Lord, and it was confirmed to us by those who heard Hebrews chapter three, verse 15.

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Today if you hear his voice. Do not harden your hearts as when they provoke me. Do not harden your heart. Listen to the Word of God. Pay attention to the Word of God. So God spoke during the days of the Old Testament. And in chapter 12, verse 18 to 21, we talked about how how God spoke to the people of Israel at the base of Mount Sinai.

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Israel heard the voice of God. He gave them the Ten Commandments. And in spite of this amazing revelation, in spite of hearing the Word of God, you know what they did? They rebelled against God. Moses hadn't been up there for 40 days, and they were already worshiping a golden calf.

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As a result, everyone aged 20 and over were doomed to die in the wilderness, and only the younger generation was able to go into the land that God had promised. Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. So God spoke during the days of the Old Testament, but he also spoke during the day to the New Testament. John, who wrote the book of Revelation and repeated the phrase over and over there in the first part of revelation, where he said, he who has an ear, let him hear what the spirit says to the churches.

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So the Holy Spirit speaks to our heart. Now I, I'm a here's a confession. I have never heard God speak audibly, ever, but I've heard him speak very loudly at times in my heart through the Word of God. Have you ever been reading the Word of God and and the Word of God just comes alive? And there's a particular verse or a section of the Bible that you're reading in your studying, and it just comes alive.

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And the Holy Spirit takes that part of the Bible and just uses it in your heart sometimes to reprove you, sometime to rebuke you, sometime to encourage you, sometime to give you a promise that you can claim in a very difficult moment of your life. It's real.

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So the living God speaks through His Spirit and the living God speaks through the words that prophets and apostles recorded in the New Testament.

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And he speaks to the Lord Jesus Christ. God's word is powerful because of who he is. You say, well, how powerful is the Word of God? Well, take your Bible. Glad you asked. Go to chapter four. Verse 12. Look at Hebrews 412. Sometimes I think that people in the church get lax a days ago with the Word of God, and we just sort of, sort of assume that it's just like a, a book, like a novel or something like that.

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It's not. Look what it said. Verse 12 of chapter four, for the word of God is living and active and sharper than any two. Now you tell me, is there a novel in the world? Is there a biography in the world that can match that? No. Absolutely not. I mean, some of the greatest authors in the world can write the greatest novels, the greatest biographies, the greatest fiction that you ever imagined.

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And I'll tell you, their words cannot match these word. For the Word of God is living and active and sharper than any two edged sword. And look at it. And piercing as far as the division of soul and spirit about joints and mirror, and able to judge the thoughts and intentions of the heart. Now, pardon my English, I know better.

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I know better, but there ain't no novel. There ain't no fiction word that can do what that verse says. The Bible can do. That's why I think it's so important to read the Bible. I would challenge everybody in this room, everybody watching live stream. If you're born again. Believer. There is no excuse for you not reading the Bible on a consistent basis.

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You say, I don't have time. Come on. Here's what I've discovered. We always have time for the things that are important to us. Always. And there is nothing more important for a born again believer than reading the Bible and praying on a consistent basis. Nothing. The pastor of Kirby Woods asked me to come and and do a podcast with him yesterday.

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And he asked me a question. It was about an hour long podcast. And, toward the end he said, pastor, how do you finish? Well. How do you finish? Well? And he brought up the point that we see so many pastors who have moral burnouts at the in the fourth quarter of their lives and even first quarter and second quarter and third quarter.

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He said, how do you finish? Well. And I looked and I said, Jared, I believe this with all my heart. I believe the most important thing I can do every single day is to spend time with the Lord. Reading the Bible and praying. It's the greatest protection we have. It's the greatest opportunity that we have to grow spiritually and allow the Spirit of God to conform us to the image of Jesus.

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And I said, I honestly believe that's the key to finishing well. What was the guy's name? Howard Hendricks at, the seminary there. What do you tell me? Dallas Theological seminary. Howard Hendricks is a study, and he did a study, and he he interviewed pastors who had moral failures and an overwhelming percentage of those he interviewed who had moral failures, said that they stopped reading the Bible and praying.

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I mean, do you want to finish? Well, read the Word of God, read it and study it. Apply it to your life. Let it come alive in your heart. I'll tell you. It's the greatest protection you have. It's greatest opportunity to grow. In Hebrews chapter two, verses one through four. For this reason, we must pay much closer attention to what we've heard, so that we do not drift away from it.

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For the word spoken through angels proved unalterable, and every transgression and disobedience received a just penalty. How will we escape if we neglect so great a salvation? After it was at first spoken through the Lord, it was confirmed to us by those who heard God also testifying with them, both by signs and wonders, by various miracles, and by gifts of the Holy Spirit, according to his own will.

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Do not neglect the Word of God. Pay attention. Pay. Let me. Let me add something. Pay attention to God's Word and pay attention to God's activity in the world. One thing I do on a good system almost every day there there's a website called It's by, Joel Rosenberg. It's all israel.com. And I go to that website just about every day, and I look and see what's happening in Israel.

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You say, why? Why are you so concerned about what what's happening in Israel? Because what's happening in Israel informs me about the activity of God in the world today. And one thing I always. Lord, help me to understand prophecy and be able to equip the body of Christ for what's coming down the road.

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And so I go to that website regularly and it is an amazing website. All israel.com. Okay, so why should we pay attention to God's Word? Because number one it's a powerful word. Number two, it's a prophetic word. It's a prophetic word. How many of you know that that God knows what's going to happen before it ever happens? You know, you know, that's that's interesting.

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That thing about the Lord Jesus, he knew what was going to happen before it happened. He knew that Judas was going to betray him. Now, I I'm firmly believe that Judas had free will, and Judas could choose whether he would betray Jesus. Our worship Jesus. I believe that. But I believe that Jesus, being the Son of God, God in the flesh, knew what he was going to do before he did it.

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You say, well, how does Judas have free will? If Jesus knew what he was going to do before he did it. Well, let me let me just give you this illustration. Let's say that we're on top of a skyscraper and we're way up there, and we look over the side and we see two cars coming to the same intersection, and neither one of them look like they're going to stop.

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And they get closer and closer, and maybe you yell at the top of your lungs, stop. But they keep going. I can't hear you. And they have a wreck. Now, you knew they were going to have wreck, but they operated under their own will and they their own driving skills and or lack of driving skills. And they had a wreck.

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I do not believe that God created us to be robots. I do not believe that. I believe what? I love what Spurgeon said. Spurgeon said, when I come to a text that says that we are, a lack from the foundation of the world. He said, I preach it. You know what else he's saying? When I come to a text that says, whosoever will I preacher?

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Now that's a good policy. That's a real good policy. Now think about this. Hundreds of years before the Lord Jesus was incarnated. The prophets in the Old Testament knew that the Messiah was coming. They knew where he was going to be born. They knew he would be born in Bethlehem because he would be the son of David. They knew that the Messiah would have power to do miraculous things.

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To heal the blind. To set the captives free. They knew that the Messiah would be compassionate. They knew that the Messiah would die on the cross to atone for the sins of human beings. They knew that the Messiah would be resurrected from the dead. That's in the Old Testament now. Old Testament prophets, written hundreds of years before Jesus was incarnated into the human race.

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They knew about the Messiah's ascension back to heaven. They knew that the Messiah would come again someday. They knew that the Messiah would rule over all creation. How do they know all this? Because God revealed it to them and told them to write those prophecies in the Bible. Now, if you were to take the the Book of Mormon and you were to look for prophetic material in the Book of Mormon, you would never find it.

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If you were to look in the Koran, you would never find prophetic material in the in the book and the Koran never. This is the only book in the world where God told people was going to happen. What was going to happen? Hundreds of years before it ever occurred. Now, why do you think God did that? God did that so that nobody could walk around on the face of this earth and say, I don't believe in the Bible because there's no explanation other than the supernatural hand of God and the inspiration of God for these prophecies.

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Being in the Bible that came true to a tee and written hundreds of years before it was ever it ever occurred. Listen, if there were no other reason that I believed that the Bible is truth without mixture of error, I could point to fulfilled prophecy and just go to town with that and say, that's the reason I believe the Bible.

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Now notice in Hebrews chapter 12 verse 26 and his voice shook the earth. Then speaking of Mount Sinai. But now he has promised, saying, yet once more I will shake not only the earth, but also the heaven. Now there's a contrast here between God shaking the earth at Mount Sinai with Moses and the children of Israel, and the promise that God was shake both the earth and the heaven.

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In the days leading up to the return of Christ. Look at Luke chapter 21, verses 8 to 11. And he said, see to it that you are not misled. This is Jesus speaking to his disciples. See to it that you are not misled. For many will come in my name, saying, I am he, and the time is near.

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Do not go after them. When you hear of wars and disturbances. Do not be terrified, for these things must take place first. But the end does not follow immediately. Then he continued by saying to them, nation will rise up against nation and kingdom against kingdom, and there will be great earthquakes, and in various places plagues and famines, and there will be terrors and great signs from heaven.

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You know what the Bible teaches. The Bible teaches that prior to the return of Christ, there's going to be a drastic increase in these supernatural things that are happening in the world. Earthquakes, terrors, wars and rumors of wars. And here's what we gotta do. We gotta pay attention to that stuff. Listen, we live in a time when the world is aflame.

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I had a I had a book in my library years ago by Billy Graham. World of Flame, and was about what's going to happen before the return of Christ. And I tell you, we're seeing things happen today that I believe has prophetic significance.

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And Jesus in Matthew chapter 24 called them birth pangs. Now, you ladies who have had babies, you know exactly what Jesus is talking about. There. Those birth pangs start out and and they're rather mild and they're far apart. And then as a baby gets ready to be born, those birth pains get harder. I'm taking Darlene's word for this.

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And those birth pangs not only get harder, but they get closer together. I remember when she gave birth to Heather. She was down scrubbing baseboards. She hadn't done that since Heather was born a short by that darling. But you know what she said. She said, John, I back so her labor pains were in her back. She said we buried.

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We buried. Go to the doctor, to the hospital. And I'm glad we did, because that little sister came quick. I mean, she came quick. And that's what Jesus says about the birth pangs leading up to his coming. They're going to increase in intensity. Earthquakes are going to increase in intensity. I believe that weather phenomena are going to be is going to be a part of that.

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I'm not so sure that God's not speaking to America with all the disasters we've had. I'm serious. You say howdy. Well, he did that with Israel.

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They had famines. They had wars. I believe God's speaking to the world today. Here's a question. Are you listening?

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Are you aware of what God is doing? Do you pay attention to the activity of God in the world one day? This is not my opinion. This is the Word of God. One day, God is going to shake this world like never before. Look at revelation 612 to 14. John said, I looked when he broke the sixth seal and there was a great earthquake, and the sun became black as sackcloth made of hair, and the whole moon became like blood, and the stars of the sky fell to the earth as a fig tree casts its unripe figs, when shaken by a great when the sky was split apart like a scroll, when it is rolled

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up. And every mountain and island were moved out of their places. Ladies and gentlemen, that's not fiction. That is going to take place at some day in the future. Now, can I tell you when? No, I can't tell you when. But I can tell you this. You better pay attention to the word of God. You better keep your eyes peeled at what God's doing in the world, because it gives us very, very clear clues.

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Okay. Look at revelation 1617 and 19. Then the seventh angel poured out his bowl upon the air, and a loud voice came out of the temple from the throne, saying, it is done. And there were flashes of lightning and sounds and peals of thunder. And there was a great earthquake, such as there not been since man came to be upon the earth.

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Do you see that a great earthquake that had never an earthquake like that had never occurred in the history of the world? All that's in the future so great an earthquake was it? And so mighty. The great city was split into three parts, and the cities of the nation fell. Babylon the Great was remembered before God to give her the cup of wine of his fierce wrath.

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Listen here. I'm telling you what what the writer of Hebrews is saying here is. We better get ready for what Jesus is going to do next. He's coming. I don't know when. I can't tell you when, but I know it's coming. Look at Hebrews chapter 12, verse 27. This expression, yet once more denotes the removing of the saints, which can be shaken as of creating things, so that those saints which cannot be shaken may remain.

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You know. I hope and pray that there's nobody in this room, and there's nobody watching live stream that feel safe and secure outside of Christ. I hope and pray that there's nobody in this room or nobody watching live stream who has ignored the gospel of Jesus Christ. I hope and pray that your heart has not gotten hard, and the gospel bounces off your heart like a rock bounces off concrete.

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Oh, how I pray that your hearts tender and that you're open to the gospel of Jesus. I want to say something to you tonight. There's only one way you'll ever be ready for what God is going to do in the future, and that is by repenting of your sin and placing your faith in Jesus. You gotta do that.

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It's more important. It's more important than how much money you make. It's more important than the car you drive. It's more important than your family. It's more important than anything. Nothing can compare with. I visited the hospice house of the day that a dear member of this church in the hospice house.

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And you know what he was doing? He wanted to see me. He wanted to talk about his funeral. He said, pastor, can I have my funeral at the church? I said, absolutely. He said, pastor, will you preach my funeral? I said, absolutely. Pastor, I really don't want you to preach a sermon. I want you to talk about my life.

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Well, I can't do that. I told you, I can't do that. I'm going to preach the gospel at a funeral. Amen. And if you don't want me to do that, don't ask me to preach funeral, okay? Because I'm going to. That is non-negotiable. Now I talk about people's lives. I talk about the memories they share with their families and all that kind of stuff.

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And he wasn't being ugly at all. And then this is Steve Edwards. Pray for Steve Edwards and his family. Steve has a daughter, Stephanie, that's in a wheelchair. And when I was walking back to my truck, Stephanie and Frances, Steve's wife, were coming in and Stephanie. Brought her wheelchair up toward me. And she said, pastor. Can I read from my Bible at my daddy's funeral?

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I said, Stephanie, absolutely. She said, Will you stand behind me? I said, no, I'll stand beside you. I'll hold the microphone for you. It's a tender moment. But you know what Steve were doing, I told them, I said, Steve, it's a noble thing you're doing because you're getting your house in order. And every man and woman in this room ought to get your house in order before you step into eternity.

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But the most important thing to get your house in order is make sure your soul is in order that you've trusted Jesus as your Savior and your Lord. You know, the Bible says in the book of James, our life is like a vapor. It's here one moment ago, and now you say, pastor, I've got planets now. You don't know.

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You got plenty of time. You don't know that. Do you know the best time to get ready? The Bible says today is the day of salvation. You're not guaranteed tomorrow. You're not guaranteed the next hour.

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So.

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We are going to face God one day. Everybody, if you're a believer, it's going to be a wonderful time. You'll face the Lord and he'll give you your rewards and you'll enter into his kingdom. It's going to be a wonderful time. But if you're not a believer and you standing at the White Throne judgment, it's not going to be a wonderful time.

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It's going to be a horrible time.

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And I think what the writer of Hebrews writing under the inspiration of Holy Spirit is saying, we need to get ready. We need to get ready because.

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A time of shaking is coming to this world. In Second Peter chapter three, verses 10 to 12. The Bible said, but the day of the Lord will come like a thief, in which the heavens will pass away with a roar, and the elements will be destroyed with intense heat, and the earth and its works will be burned up.

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Since all these things are to be destroyed in this way. Look at that. What sort of people are you to be in holy conduct and godliness? That's a word for everybody in this room who's a believer. I mean, if you really believe this stuff, if you really believe the Word of God, if you really believe that there's a heaven and hell, then we ought to live in holy conduct and godliness.

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We we ought to live on the edge of our seat. The Bible says in the book of Philippians that we ought to we ought to anticipate the coming of Christ, and we ought to do that every single day that we wake up. Verse 12, looking for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens will be destroyed by burning, and the elements will melt with intense heat and air.

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Listen, the day is coming when everything in this world is going to be vaporized. Your car is going to be vaporized. Your retirement account is going to be vaporized. Your house is going to be. Nothing will be left. You know what's going to be left. God. God.

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Sometimes we have this silly notion that we can take our accumulated things to heaven with us. I read about a a man who was, about to die, and he was a well-to-do man. And and he was not a really good husband. And he said to his wife, listen, before you put the casket in the ground. Take my money and put in a casket with me.

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She said, okay. And sure enough, he died. And there at the funeral, and the wife and her best friend were there, and the wife had told the best friend what the man had said. And so she reached over and she put an envelope into the casket. And when they're walking away after the the burial is over, graveside service is over.

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The friend says, surely you did not put that man's money in that casket with him. She said, I did. I wrote him a check.

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So a lot of people have strange ideas about what happens when we die. I tell you this. There's not a thing you can carry in the glory with you. Not a thing. Not a thing. Everything that is physical and temporal would be vaporized. Look at revelation chapter 21, verses 1 to 4. Man, I share this at funerals a lot.

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If you're a born again believer, what you got in store for you is beyond anything you could dream, think, or imagine. I did a funeral this past Saturday for a lady that was a member of Mullen Station Baptist Church, my first church at the seminary. She was 102 years old. Sweet godly lady man. Her mom was still sharp and about six weeks ago, her grandson rolled her and in her wheelchair rolled her into our church.

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And she worship with us. And after the service, I'm over here greeting people and I say, Kenny, bringing miss Miss Nela up to me to greet me. And a few weeks later. I'm preaching her funeral. But I can tell you this. And sister was ready. She was ready. And I use this scripture right here. Revelation 21 1 to 4 in her funeral.

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Then I saw a new heaven and new earth for the first heaven and the first earth passed away, and there's no longer any sea. And I saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God. May read as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, behold, the tabernacle of God is among men, and he will dwell among them, and they shall be his people, and God himself will be among them.

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Look at the hand. Living with God for all of eternity. And he will wipe every tear from their eyes. Look, look at what's not going to be there. There will no longer be any death.

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There will no longer be any mourning or crying or pain. The first things that passed away. There'll be no disease in heaven. There's no cancer. There's no heart disease. There's no deformity in heaven. The lame will leap like a deer in heaven. The blind will see. I'm telling you, it's going to be amazing. And that's why Paul said in Colossians chapter three that we ought to set our mind on things above, not on the things that are on earth.

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Every believer is so blessed to be a part of a kingdom which cannot be shaken. Let's look at verse 27 again. This expression once more denotes the removing of those things which can be shaken as of creative thing, so that those which cannot be shaken may remain. Ever. If you're a born again believer, you have inherited a kingdom which cannot be shaken.

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America has been shaken terribly for years. I tell you, if you're a born again believer, you're a citizen of heaven, and you're a part of a kingdom that cannot be shaken.

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Let me tell you, the Lord Jesus cannot be shaken. The Word of God cannot be shaken. The church cannot be shaken. The true believer cannot be shaken. You say, what are you talking about, pastor? Well, let me give you a verse. Right. Just write down this verse. Psalm 5522. Listen what it says. I have shared this verse in situations where people are hurting and they've gone through tragedy.

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Listen, if Psalm 5522. Cast your burden upon the Lord, and he will sustain you. He will never allow the righteous to be shaken.

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Never.

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He's there for you. He's a rock and refuge. Your very present help in time trouble doesn't mean we don't go through hard things. We all go through hard things. But you can go through hard things and not have your faith shaken.

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The true believer cannot be shaken. The gifts of salvation cannot be shaken. The purpose of God cannot be shaken. If you are a born again believer, you have incredible security and stability. No matter how much God seems to be shaking the world around you.

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So pay attention to what God's saying, what God's doing. It's a powerful word. It's a prophetic word. And number three, finally, it's a personal word. Verse 27 says that what can be shaken will be swept away. And one last great shaking and what is unshakable will remain. Then look at verse 28. Therefore, since we have a kingdom, since we receive a kingdom which cannot be shaken, this is what we do.

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This is for every believer in this room. You have received. Do you know what that means? It's already yours. You already have a kingdom which cannot be shaken. It's not something you get when you die and get to heaven right now. As a born again believer, you have already received a kingdom which cannot be shaken. Therefore, since we have, we receive a kingdom which cannot be shaken.

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Let us do some thing. What do we do? Let us show gratitude.

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Let us make sure we thank God. Thank God for what he's doing in your life. Thank God for his promises. Thank God for promises like Psalm 5522, our Philippians chapter four, verses six and seven. Thank God. Thank God for your salvation. Have you thought about that recently? Have you thought about the fact that the Son of God loved you so much that he was willing to give his back to the Roman worship?

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And to be beaten within an inch of his life, and then to be nailed to a cross, and then to top it all off. To be made sin for you, that you might be made the righteousness of God in him.

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So you show gratitude. That's what you do. That's something you can start tonight. By which we may offer to God an acceptable service that refers to worship. If we had time, we'd go to Romans chapter 12, verse one and two. That's what acceptable service means. It's worship. Show gratitude to God. Worship God, but worship him. Look at this with reverence and awe.

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Man, don't go through a whole some type of worship experience. Worship him. That's a verb. It's not a noun. It's a verb. And you worship him in reverence and awe. Hey, Windsor. When's the last time that you were singing a worship song? A hymn, a worship song, whatever it is. And you had a tear trickled down your face.

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Because you were so moved by the presence of God. Oh. The last time for me was when we had the Lord's Supper. And Bailey was singing this blood. Man, it was hard for me to hold myself together. I just thought about. I just thought about how Jesus was willing to spill his blood. So that I could be forgiven.

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So that you could be forgiven. Worship him with reverence and all. And then verse 29. It's so we gotta remember. For our God is a consuming fire.

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That's why we worship him with reverence and all.

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We respect him. We Revere him. We're in awe of God at who he is, at what he's done, at the promises he's provided for us. It's a personal word.

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Let me ask you a question. Is your heart fixed on God? Is it?

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Is God your treasure? Or is the world your treasure? Is God your security or is your retirement plan your security? Hey, what would you do? Think about that. What would you do if this next week, on Tuesday, all of a sudden? The one world government came into place, and the one world currency became the only way that you could buy or sell anything.

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And all the dollars and $20 and $100 that you have all the time is worthless. What would you do? Would you curl up in a fetal position? And cry?

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Would you be hopeless? You don't have to be hopeless. You have an inheritance in heaven with God, and nobody can get to it. And it's more valuable than all the stocks and bonds in the world. I promise you.

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I listen, to borrow a phrase from Elvis. There's a whole lot of shaking going on in the world today. I'm you some. You haven't seen anything yet. That's what this text is about. So we gotta pay close attention to God's word and to God's activity. Keep your head on a swivel.

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Thank you for being here tonight. We got one more chapter. Chapter 13. And hopefully next week. In the next week, we can we can knock out chapter 13 and move on to something else. Okay. Thank you for being here. Let's pray. Heavenly father, I thank you that you've given us a kingdom that cannot be shaken. I thank you, Heavenly Father, that we are secure in Christ.

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No one can snatch us out of the hand of Christ, and no one is able to snatch us out of your hand. Heavenly father, I praise you that there's nothing we have in this world that can remotely compare to what we have in Christ. Oh Lord, help us to keep our eyes open. Help us to keep our heart attuned to your word and to your activity.

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And help us to show gratitude to you and worship you in a spirit of reverence in all, in Jesus name. Amen. Thank you. God bless you.