Today's encouragement comes from Hebrews 12:28, where we read these words:
"Therefore let us be grateful for receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, and thus let us offer to God acceptable worship, with reverence and awe . . . “ (ESV)Even as Americans continue to await the final results of this year’s election, and who will be inaugurated, etc.—the church in this land need *not* worry about Who is in total charge, nor about the abiding nature of the Kingdom (church) of Christ.
According to this verse (above), true believers in Jesus have *already* “re-ceived” the eternal Kingdom of their Redeemer, which cannot be “shaken.” This church Kingdom’s King rules in heaven and on earth. There is not a square inch of the universe over which Jesus does not hold absolute sway. Largely *because* of this truth, the regenerate church is able and willing to of-fer our Triune God “acceptable worship, with reverence and awe."
[Puritan quote of the day: "Defilers and profaners of ordinances [preaching and the Lord’s Supper], by known and allowed wickedness, provoke God more than the heathen who have no ordinances.” —Jonathan Edwards, in his sermon, "A Warning to Professors of Religion"]
