GOD’S UNSHAKEABLE KINGDOM

Wherefore we RECEIVING a KINGDOM which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear: – Hebrews 12:28

Believers in Christ belong to an Unshakeable Kingdom! We have received a Kingdom that cannot be moved. Becoming citizens of Christ’s Kingdom is not through striving and struggling. We simply enter His Kingdom by receiving the King: “But as many as RECEIVED HIM, to them gave He power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on His name” (Jh.1:12). For some people, receiving Christ is not easy. They want to earn their entry to heaven or do a duty to be saved. The simplicity of the Gospel demands that we receive the King into our lives by an act of faith! The cross of Jesus Christ is the only way by which anyone can enter God’s Kingdom. The Kingdom of God is not something we ATTAIN, but something we OBTAIN. We receive the Kingdom by surrendering our hearts to the King of kings.

All over the world people are attempting to build their lives on the platforms of personal effort, position, popularity, pride of learning and other temporal power dynamics, but all of these are easily shaken out of place. Throughout time, empires have been built on earthly values and ideologies that were meant to last for centuries and millennia, but often fell prematurely. These empires have entered into the ‘dustbin’ of history’ because they were erected on ‘shakeable’ foundations.

Earthly kingdoms will continue to wobble, shake, falter and fall before our eyes; but there is one unshakeable Kingdom – God’s! When Jesus stood before Pilate, He said quietly but with certainty: “My kingdom is not of this world” (Jh.18:36). His Kingdom is not rooted in this world; hence, the shaking of external events cannot move Him. He is the King of kings and the ages testify to His eternal sovereignty. The powers that held Him, put Him through a mock trial, condemned Him to death, and crucified Him, have passed away. Yet the King of kings abides and rules from age to age, the only unshaken Power in a shaking world.