Unshakable Things

Unshakable Things

By

Bishop Melvin L. Maughmer Jr.

PRELUDE: - I grew up in the church back in the day when we sang songs that stirred something up deep down on the inside. I’m not talking about emotionalism because you can be emotional without being spiritual, but you can’t be spiritual without being emotional. We used to sing songs that expressed our hearts desire towards God, and they helped us in times of trouble. Songs like Walk with me Lord walk with me while I’m on this tedious journey I want Jesus to walk with me. Every now and then I must go back to one of those old songs and be like David and encourage myself in the Lord and simply tell Jesus I need thee Oh I need thee every hour I need thee Oh bless me now my savior I need thee. Now there is nothing wrong with the songs of today but it’s the old songs that when you look back and wonder how you made it over that helped bring you over.

One of those old songs is “My Hope is Built on Nothing Less than Jesus Blood and Righteousness”. The words are:- My hope is built on nothing less Than Jesus' blood and righteousness I dare not trust the sweetest frame But a wholly lean in Jesus' Name When darkness veils His lovely face I rest on His unchanging grace In every high and stormy gale My anchor holds within the veil On Christ the solid Rock I stand All other ground is sinking sand His oath, His covenant, His blood Support me in the whelming flood When all around my soul gives way He then is all my Hope and Stay When He shall come With trumpet sound Oh may I then in Him be found Dressed in His righteousness alone Faultless to stand before the throne On Christ the solid Rock I stand All other ground is sinking sand On Christ the solid Rock I stand All other ground is sinking sand”.

Today I want to preach on “Unshakeable Things”

DEFINITION: - unshakable is something strongly felt and unable to be changed: unable to be disputed or questioned:

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SCRIPTURE: - Hebrews 12:24-29 says, “And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel. See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven: Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he hath promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven. And this word, Yet once more, signifieth the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain. Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear: For our God is a consuming fire”.

OPENING: So many times, we put faith in things that will fail and easily shaken, money will fail, relationships may fail, people will fail, politics will fail, doctors will fail, medical science will fail, the judicial system will fail. We need to put our faith in things that will not fail.

Hebrews 12 lets us know of a time of shaking is coming a time in the world when everything is shaken, except certain things which can never be shaken. 2 Peter 3:10 says, “But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up”.

There is a shaking taking place. We live a life in a world that is being shaken from change and decay everyday our economic system is being shaken like never before and many believe that we are headed towards another great depression, inflation is at a 40-year high, gas prices are astronomical, the price of everyday necessities are ridiculous and everything in the Dollar Tree is now a $1.25. Globally we are gripped by the pandemic of Covid, Monkeypox is increasing, morality is at an all-time low if even existent, billions of dollars are being spent to try to go to the moon yet there are kids in the street with not enough to eat. Life in general is not regarded at all, killings are on the rise, road rage is crazy, we are fearful of even going to the grocery store because we are not sure if some crazed demonic possessed person is lying in wait to shoot us simply because they just want to see what it feels like to kill someone. People send their children to school wondering if they will make it through to recess. Black lives matter, white lives matter, gay lives matter etc. but really it seems as if nobody matters or cares.