I Will Shake Everything That Can Be Shaken

Everything That Can Exist Shaken, Will Exist

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A few days ago a prominent pastor/teacher/theologian/author in the body of Christ indicated in an interview that he would be supportive of a homosexual union.  The body of Christ in the West was shocked as someone who  represented the best of evangelical Christianity seemingly betrayed what the church has stood for for generations.  Since that time, this leader has taken dorsum his words, but needless to say the trunk of Christ was a bit shaken.

In a few months, some very bourgeois, prominent Bible assertive pastor/leader/writer who has fabricated a stink about this issue will exist revealed to accept fallen to one particular sin or vice in his life. This will stand for with the volume tour of the next Evangelical leader who will write a book almost how the Bible isn't truthful.

These are non prophecies equally much as they are expectations based on the flavour that nosotros're in. It seems as if nosotros are in a season where leaders are falling left and right and causing us to doubt the validity of Biblical Christianity.  One minute a trusted leader is caving to some new form of heresy. The next minute, the one who stood for Biblical truth against that leader is falling into sin. It makes united states of america believe there is no 1 standing for Biblical Christianity.

The truth of the thing is I wish I could say that nearly of this was the devil waging war on the body of Christ. Honestly, while I believe that in part, there is a higher truth that I believe is going on in the West right now.  God says, "Yet in one case more I volition milk shake non simply the earth but also the heavens," (Hebrews 12:26) and the writer of Hebrews goes on to explicate that '[t]his phrase, 'Nonetheless once again,' indicates the removal of things that are shaken—that is, things that have been made—in society that the things that cannot be shaken may remain," (Hebrews 12:27).

I really believe nosotros are in a season where the Lord is shaking everything that can be shaken. This is leading up to the end of the age, just it is non the end. The goal of it is to shake those things that we put our trust in that are not Jesus and His Kingdom. These aren't just evil things that are being shaken–they are skillful things that we have put our trust in other than Christ! Where our animalism for leaders is greater than our want to follow Jesus, Jesus is really shaking the states, in His mercy, and so that nosotros put our trust in the eternal things of the Lord that volition never exist shaken.

I believe this is a flavor, not a twenty-four hours or a week or a month or even a year. I believe it will happen in waves and we will recollect information technology's passed. And so information technology will happen in another wave and we'll get all stirred upwardly once again. And then same wheel volition repeat itself.  It will jolt us but if we're not careful, we can be lulled to sleep in the times between the waves. I believe this is primarily affecting Christians in the cultural West, simply it's leading somewhere greater than that. It'due south non the cracking falling abroad that Scripture talks about, but it is a shaking that will cause us to choose between what tin be shaken and what can't.

Why would God do this? He desires that we find our fulfillment and our satisfaction in Him. Not in leaders. Not in their piety. Not fifty-fifty in their good theology. He wants united states to trust in Him because He alone is the only Matter that cannot exist shaken.  We've thought for and then long that the swell shaking would come up to the globe, and we would be okay, but Peter tells united states of america clearly "for the time has come for judgment, and information technology must begin with God'due south household," (one Peter 4:17). So while there will be shakings that happen to world systems, there is a shaking that right now is taking place in our midst–and God's goal in it is that nosotros trust in Him, not just the evangelical brand of Christianity we've become comfortable with.

In this season, nosotros should conceptualize more things being shaken in the cultural landscape of Christianity. What need to examine our lives and identify areas where we are trusting in things that can exist shaken and requite those areas to God. If nosotros become good at building on obedience to Jesus and His Kingdom, our lives and the lives of those we serve volition stand even though they are hit hard past forces across our control (Matthew seven:24-27).

Are you ready?

Tags: Christ, Christianity, Church, Eugene Peterson, Evangelicalism, God

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Travis Kolder is a follower of Jesus, a husband, a father of five, an organic church planter, and a writer. He lives in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, where he serves every bit part of the Cedar Rapids Firm Church building Network.

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Source: https://traviskolder.com/2017/07/14/everything-that-can-be-shaken-will-be/

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