Sunday, June 22, 2008

A Kingdom

Read this passage and thought the promises and implications involved were amazing. I think it speaks for itself:

Heb 12:18-29
18 For you have not come to {a mountain} that may be touched and to a blazing fire, and to darkness and gloom and whirlwind,19 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 should be spoken to them.20 For they could not bear the command, "If even a beast touches the mountain, it will be stoned."21 And so terrible was the sight, {that} Moses said, "I am full of fear and trembling."22 But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to myriads of angels,23 to the general assembly and church of the first-born who are enrolled in heaven, and to God, the Judge of all, and to the spirits of righteous men made perfect,24 and to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood, which speaks better than {the blood} of Abel.25 See to it that you do not refuse Him who is speaking. For if those did not escape when they refused him who warned {them} on earth, much less {shall} we {escape} who turn away from Him who {warns} from heaven.26 And His voice shook the earth then, but now He has promised, saying," Yet once more I will shake not only the earth, but also the heaven."27 And this {expression} "Yet once more," denotes the removing of those things which can be shaken, as of created things, in order that those things which cannot be shaken may remain.28 Therefore, since we receive a kingdom which cannot be shaken, let us show gratitude, by which we may offer to God an acceptable service with reverence and awe;29 for our God is a consuming fire.(NAS)

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