When Everything Shakes

I've got nothing new How could I express all my gratitude? I could sing these songs They've got nothing new But every song will stay And you'll never hurt you Come on, what'd you say? So I go to my hands Go here, sing that sing That's it, that's it See how they do you Cause there's not much But I'm not in the same way Except for our singing How they do you How they do you How they do you I've got one of these songs Would you say, I've got just one of these Or would you surrender your life? Would you say, I will worship you? So I go to my hands And treat you again and again Sing it out It's all that I have It's all that I have ♪ I'll make you hear ♪ ♪ I'll make you hear ♪ ♪ No, it's not worse ♪ ♪ I'm the biggest people of the King ♪

♪ It's never a moment ♪ ♪ Singing heart ♪ ♪ I'll make you hear ♪ ♪ I'll make you hear ♪ ♪ Now it's so funny that loose ♪ ♪ Your praise today ♪ ♪ What's so funny, lift up ♪ ♪ A heart raised to him ♪ ♪ All stir up your praise ♪ ♪ Church, we can stir up your praise today ♪ ♪ We can sing this with one voice ♪ ♪ See, come on my soul ♪ ♪ All doors against time ♪ ♪ Be a lift of your soul ♪ ♪ 'Cause you've got mine ♪ ♪ Inside in our blood ♪ ♪ Be a lift of your praise ♪ ♪ Come on, somebody get up inside today ♪ ♪ And what you say ♪ ♪ Come on my soul ♪ ♪ All doors against time ♪ ♪ 'Cause you've got mine ♪ ♪ Inside in our blood ♪ ♪ Say, get up inside ♪ ♪ To come on my soul ♪ ♪ Come on my soul ♪ ♪ All doors against time ♪ ♪ Be a lift of your soul ♪ ♪ 'Cause you've got mine ♪ ♪ Inside in our blood ♪

♪ Be a lift of your praise ♪ ♪ To come on my soul ♪ ♪ Come on my soul ♪ ♪ All doors against time ♪ ♪ Say, get up inside your soul ♪ ♪ Be a lift of your soul ♪ ♪ Be a lift of your praise ♪ ♪ To come on my soul ♪ ♪ So I throw on my hands ♪ ♪ To come on my soul ♪ ♪ 'Cause all that I have is a heart ♪ ♪ Hallelujah ♪ ♪ Hallelujah ♪ ♪ To see I blow it so much ♪ ♪ 'Cause I throw on my soul ♪ ♪ 'Cause I throw on my soul ♪ ♪ Singing Hallelujah ♪ ♪ Hallelujah ♪ ♪ Hallelujah ♪ ♪ Sing Hallelujah ♪ ♪ Sing Hallelujah ♪ ♪ Hallelujah ♪ ♪ Sing Hallelujah ♪ ♪ 'Cause they love ♪ ♪ Hallelujah ♪ ♪ Sing Hallelujah ♪ ♪ Sing Hallelujah ♪ ♪ Sing Hallelujah ♪ ♪ Sing Hallelujah ♪ ♪ Hallelujah ♪

♪ Hallelujah ♪ ♪ Come have your way ♪ ♪ Come have your way in my life ♪ ♪ Come have your way ♪ ♪ Come have your way in my life ♪ ♪ Come have your way in my life ♪ ♪ With my voice would you say ♪ ♪ Come have your way ♪ ♪ Come have your way in my life ♪ ♪ Come have your way in my life ♪ ♪ Come have your way in my life ♪ ♪ Say, come have your way in my life ♪ ♪ Come have your way in my life ♪ ♪ Come have your way in my life ♪ ♪ Come have your way in my life ♪ ♪ Come have your way ♪ ♪ Come have your way in my life ♪ ♪ Come have your way in my life ♪ ♪ Come have your way in my life ♪ ♪ With your say you're all I would say ♪ ♪ You're all I want ♪ ♪ You're all I've ever needed ♪ ♪ You're all I've ever needed ♪ ♪ You're all I want ♪ ♪ You're all I've ever needed ♪ ♪ You're all I've ever needed ♪ ♪ You're all I want ♪ ♪ You're all I want ♪ ♪ You're all I want ♪ ♪ You're all I've ever needed ♪

♪ You're all I've ever needed ♪ ♪ I've never needed ♪ ♪ You're all I've ever needed ♪ ♪ Come have your dear ♪ ♪ Come have your way in my life ♪ ♪ You're all I want ♪ ♪ You're all I want ♪ ♪ You're all I want ♪ ♪ You're all I've ever needed ♪ ♪ You're all I want ♪ ♪ You're all I want ♪ ♪ You're all I've ever needed ♪ ♪ You're all I've ever needed ♪ ♪ You're all I've ever needed ♪ Somebody shout, "In your own other, in your own world, in your own world, in your own world, in your own world." You roll out, you roll out, in your own world, in your own world, in your own world, in your own world. You roll out, you roll out, in your own world, in your own world, in your own world, in your own world. Help me, know you, I'll see you again, your own world, and I'll say, "See, you're all I want, you're all I want, you're all I want." Come on, try to teach a thing to say, "You're all I want, you're all I want, you're all I want, you're all I want." You help me, help me know you are me. You roll out, you roll out. You roll out, you're all I want. You roll out, you're all I want, you're all I want, you're all I want, you're all I want. You are born, baby, come on. 'Cause you are born, baby. There's so many people here today. I'm born, baby, come on. 'Cause you are born, baby, come on. 'Cause you are born, baby, come on. 'Cause you are born, baby, come on. 'Cause you are born, baby, come on, baby. 'Cause you are born, baby, come on. 'Cause you are born, baby. There's so many people here today. You are born, baby, come on. You just take it over your situation, whatever you're walking through today. You are born, baby. You are born, baby, come on. 'Cause you are born, baby, come on. 'Cause you are born, baby. You are born, baby, come on. You just take it over your situation, whatever you're going through. 'Cause you are born, baby, come on. You just take it over your situation, whatever you're going through.

'Cause you are born, baby, come on. You just take it over your situation, whatever you're going through. 'Cause you are born, baby, come on. You just take it over your situation, whatever you're going through. 'Cause you are born, baby, come on. You just take it over your situation, whatever you're going through. 'Cause you are born, baby, come on. You just take it over your situation, whatever you're going through. 'Cause you are born, baby, come on. You just take it over your situation, whatever you're going through. 'Cause you are born, baby, come on. You just take it over your situation, whatever you're going through. 'Cause you are born, baby, come on. You just take it over your situation, whatever you're going through. 'Cause you are born, baby, come on. You just take it over your situation, whatever you're going through. 'Cause you are born, baby, come on, baby, come on. You just take it over your situation, whatever you're going through. 'Cause you are born, baby, come on. You just take it over your situation, whatever you're going through. Hey, I'm just kidding Turn back Do you know why? Cause these are all with me Oh, somebody shout and say Can I talk with me Say there's so much love Hey, I'm so, I'm so, I'm so Don't I talk with me Don't talk with me Hey, say Can I talk with me Don't talk with me Don't talk with me There's so much love Hey, I'm so, I'm so, I'm so Don't talk with me Don't talk with me Don't talk with me You don't talk with me

Don't talk with me Hey, say Don't talk with me Don't talk with me Here's what's wrong, here's what's wrong, here's what's wrong, here's what's wrong, here's what's wrong, here's what's wrong, here's what's wrong, here's what's wrong, here's what's wrong, here's what's wrong, here's what's wrong, here's what's wrong, here's what's wrong, here's what's wrong, here's what's wrong, here's what's wrong, here's what's wrong, here's what's wrong, here's what's wrong, here's what's wrong, here's what's wrong, here's what's wrong, here's what's wrong, here's what's wrong, here's what's wrong, here's what's wrong, here's what's wrong, here's what's wrong, here's what's wrong, here's what's wrong, here's what's wrong, here's what's wrong, here's what's wrong, here's what's wrong, here's what's wrong, here's what's wrong, here's what ♪ Of the day you'll have me ♪ ♪ Come here, boy ♪ ♪ And here, here's more ♪ ♪ Here's more ♪ ♪ My heart is burning ♪ ♪ Say, "Come on, my heart!" ♪ ♪ Come on, to deny ♪ ♪ Come on, my heart ♪ ♪ Come on, my heart, come on ♪ ♪ What the Lord can do ♪ And I have a question for you. I mean, this is a very honest question. How many of you have had something happen in your life that was very traumatic, devastating, and it just shook your faith so much you didn't think you were going to make it? Would you hold your hand up if you'll be that honest with me for a moment? Yeah. Well, I want to just take a few moments this morning, and I want to talk about with everything shakes. But here's what I also know about those of you that raised your hand. You're still standing, and you're still here. (laughing)

You're here. You're still standing. And the reason why you're still standing is you have to know that when everything shakes, you better be anchored and holding on to something that will never shake and never fail and never fall. And how many of you know? That one thing is the rock, Jesus Christ our Lord, amen. (congregation applauding) You know, there are moments in your life where everybody remembers where they were. Everybody remembers, there are moments in our life. And this past Friday, we all reflected and we remembered and we grieved and we mourned and we remembered. I think everybody remembers outside of those who were not born there or were infants. September 11th, 2001, it was one of the most horrific moments for this nation, and everything was shaking. Everybody shook. When radical Islamic terrorists took commercial airline planes and flew them into the World Trade Center towers, into the Pentagon, and you also remember the brave people on United Airlines 93 who fought back against terrorists and landed that plane ended up in an open field instead of in a populated area. You remember these things. You remember the people that were so brave that ran in to rescue others when they could not be rescued and they gave their life.

You remember that and you should remember. You should remember. All of us remember those things. There are just moments where you remember things and you know exactly where you were 'cause I know where I was. I was on a flight at that very moment, at that very moment I was in mid flight, going to go minister. I remember exactly. You all remember some of you were in grade school, some of you are in elementary, you remember. And we watched something happen that we thought was absolutely impossible to happen in this very powerful nation. People don't forget this because some of you know that those memories don't fade and they leave a mark on you. They leave a mark when you're impacted by them, when you see them, where you experience them. And then it becomes a part of the story. It becomes a part of the nation's story. It becomes a part of a church's story when those things happen. There are things that occur that look becomes a part of your own story, your own story. And when tragedy comes, friends, you need to understand something, we start questioning things. And you should question things when things get shaken, that you weren't asking the day before when it didn't happen. Because once it happens, then you start asking questions like, well, what is actually safe? What actually does last? You start really asking a question like, where is God? When everything I thought was so secure and stable and could never be rocked is now shaken and gone. And I'll tell you this, you don't need a national tragedy to have those kind of questions for you to be shaken. You don't need a national tragedy. All it takes is for you, after your doctor's appointment, to open up my chart and see the report and it shakes your world what the report just says on your My Chart app. All it takes is one sentence from a doctor that you weren't expecting to be spoken out of his mouth in a doctor's appointment that you thought,

oh, this will be, this can't be. That's all it takes. All it takes is one conversation with your spouse that stood by you on that day and said, till death do us part, and then out of their mouth comes a conversation you never dreamed. And now you saw something that you thought would be for forever and grow old together is now crumbling before your very eyes. It doesn't take long for you to have the kind of shaking you don't need a national tragedy. All it takes is your child to make one bad decision and now you're having to visit them in incarceration and your world is rocked because now you feel like you were a horrible parent raising them. It doesn't take long. It does not take long. All it takes is you had everything all planned. You knew exactly what you got. You had the 401(k) plan. You knew how much sex and how much Social Security you were going to have. You had everything wrapped up. You knew what you're going to do in retirement and then all of a sudden something changes and financial loss and everything's pulled out from underneath you. It doesn't take long. All of a sudden you were working out every day. You were sitting there eating kale. You're ready to run a marathon and all of a sudden the doctor says you've got this. It doesn't take long. It can be a phone call in the middle of the night. Are you trying to see what I'm telling you that the shaking is happening? Sometimes the world shakes. Sometimes it's just your world that shakes. I want to just talk about with everything shakes because the Bible doesn't ignore it and doesn't act like it exists. In fact, it tells you that it's going to happen and I want you to look with me in Hebrews chapter 12 verse 26 as the writer begins to write these new Christians that were Jewish that had converted to follow Jesus Christ and let Judaism. And this is what he says to them. When God spoke from Mount Sinai and they were familiar with this, the Jews were familiar with this. His voice shook the earth. But now he makes another promise. You ready for this promise? Once again, I will shake not only the earth but the heavens also. This means that all creation will be shaken and removed. Why? So that only unshakeable things will remain. Since we are receiving a kingdom that is unshakeable, let us be thankful and please God by worshiping him with holy fear and awe. I want to know, are there any kingdom people in this house that are a part of a kingdom that shall never be shaken or ever removed when everything else is shaken? Because the shaking happens when everything shakes. So the book of Hebrews is written by under the power of the Holy Spirit and the author writes us to believers who were under a lot of pressure. They were really struggling. They were suffering. And here's what happened to these new Jewish Christians. They were being tempted

to drift away from Jesus Christ and what he provided on the cross because following Jesus was costing them way too much when they left Judaism and now they're wanting to return back to them. And so the Holy Spirit through the writer of Hebrews doesn't give them this just this little shallow comfort. This is not chicken soap for the soul kind of response. This is not just some little He doesn't give them the shallow comfort. Here's what he tells those believers back then like he's saying to you and me when things shake. He is simply telling this, here's what you gotta know. The world you're in is fragile, but the kingdom within you is unshakeable. (audience applauds) You don't just, you're just not a part of the kingdom. You have been chosen and are following the king that lives within you and it is unshakeable. Can somebody say amen to that for a moment? So here's what the Holy Spirit was trying to show them and he's showing you right now. Some of you are being shaken and rocked by things I didn't even mention. You never dreamed of whatever happened in your marriage. You never dreamed that this would ever happen to your body or to your situation or to a nation. You never dreamed these things would happen. Here's what he's trying to say. You better recognize what is temporary because a lot of us don't know what's temporary and you can tell when somebody doesn't know it's temporary because they actually worship it and they wig out when they get shaken. They absolutely freak out.

So look what he says in Hebrews 12 verse 27. He says, this means that all creation will be shaken and removed so that only unshakeable things will remain. Now how many of you know we're watching stuff shake all the time. Don't you just wish we could go back to the advent of the time when there was no social media, there was no television and wouldn't that be nice sometimes? Yeah, yeah. Go out on a ship where there's no Wi-Fi, it's great. (audience laughs) But our world is constantly reminding us when you look at it, when you see what's happened in the nations of the world, when you see what's happened in the Middle East, when you see what's happened in Ukraine and Russia, when you see the economies of the world just teetering, when you're watching gas go up and down and you're watching your stock market portfolio go, look like an EKG and your heart's doing the same thing. When you're watching governments collapse, you see health issues begin to happen that you didn't expect. When you start seeing relationships, you thought were absolutely stable and they're my bestest, closest, bestie and they'll never just being shaken, then you start asking the questions because Hebrew is telling us ultimately, everything temporary is going to give way

to what is unshakable and eternal. That's what it's saying. Now, let me back up for a moment. When things get shaken, ain't even a God allows them to shake and it doesn't mean that it doesn't matter to him. So I'm not saying that when your health gets shaken, it doesn't matter, it's trivial. Or when your kid does something stupid, that it doesn't matter. That's not what God's saying here. That is not what he's saying. How many of you know that people matter to God? Your job matters to God. Your career matters to God. Your marriage, so when you see shaken, it doesn't mean that God didn't think it's unimportant. That's not what he's saying. Your relationships, your safety, our nation, a national safety is important. It is important, it matters to God. But here's the point. They matter to God, but your marriage and your money and your nation and your strength and your company was not designed to carry the full weight of your hope and your soul. It will never have the capacity to do so. So God's not saying it doesn't matter. What he's saying is shaking doesn't make something temporary. It reveals that it always was temporary. Married shaken, money shaking, physical body shaking,

psyche shaking, it's proving that it always was temporary. See, because no one's asking the question. See, that's an important distinction. On September 10th, 2001, those buildings and the Pentagon, they looked permanent and people look at those twin towers and look at that, and they looked permanent. But on September 11th, it revealed just how quickly what looks permanent can disappear in a moment. (congregation laughing) 'Cause they thought it was permanent. And the same thing can happen to you personally. We're all of a sudden, You just closed up the cabin for the summer. Now you're gonna go take your trip to get out of the winter. Great, it all matters to God. But don't depend on that comfort to be your source of joy. Your marriage matters and people matters and even people in the church matter. Relationships matter, but don't let people become your identity and your sense of approval because God never intended that. Make money, give money away, take care of your retirement, but let me tell you something, it can never be your source of security because only there's only one thing that can make you secure, because here's what happens. We were asking something temporary to give us something that only the eternal king and the eternal kingdom can give us and we were asking that to give it to us

when it does not have the capacity to do so. So here's what we got in our culture in America. We even get in churches. We even get in ministry for crying out loud. 'Cause we gotta succeed. We gotta make things, I understand that. It matters to God's success. It matters to what you do well. It matters to your raised a great family and a happy, it matters to God. But here's what's happening. They are not intended to carry the weight of your soul and your hope and too many people are letting it do it because they climb in there, everybody's climbing in there, climbing in there, I gotta climb in there, I gotta, I gotta get up there, absolutely go for your education, go for it, go for it, climb the ladder. But I see people sacrifice and they're working and they're slaving and they're working so hard and they're exhausting themselves. They have no time for their families, they have no time for God and no time for church, we're crying out, some are sitting at home in bed because they're too tired. But here's what happens when they get to the top of the ladder and they get what they thought they wanted. They find out that the ladder was leaning against a paper wall. And it comes crashing down. So here's what your pastor has to ask himself,

even about doing the work of the ministry. Here's what you have to ask yourself. What is my ladder leaning against right now? It all matters to God, but what is it leaning against? What is your career leaning against? What is the money that you've all amassed leaning against? What's your health leaning against? What's your approval? Your approval of who you are? What is it leaning against? The next like on your social media feed? Are you kidding me? What's it leaning against? What are your plans? Come on, what's your retirement? What is it really leaning against? You're just gonna retire, fold everything up and it's all done? No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. God will shake all those things to see if you're leaning against a paper wall. And when he starts shaking you and he starts shaking your pastor, please don't waste your shaking. You'll either listen or you'll have to learn. Don't waste the shaking because when God shakes things, he's doing, there's things that are happening. He is exposing what you're trusting in that is a paper ladder that will not survive. You have to listen, everybody say listen.

I know sometimes your kids are hearing you, but they're not listening to you. So if they don't listen to you, you gotta let them go learn. That's the tough part. But look what God says to these Jewish Christians who are getting rid of go away from the faith and they're being shaken. Look what he says in verse 25. I love what he says in Hebrews 12 to five. Be careful that you do not refuse to do what everybody. Can we say the word to do what? To listen to the one who is speaking. To listen to the one who is the unshakeable kingdom that will never fail. That his eternal, listen to the eternal instead of the temporal wall of paper that you're leaning it up against right now. God, what are you showing me? What are you saying to me about what I have truly trusted because everything will shake so that the unshakeable will remain. And those who lean on it are the ones who will overcome. So he say, recognize the temper. Here's the second thing that he's trying to show. That in the middle of the shaking, how many thank God he doesn't abandon us? That's where you find him. And what he's telling you is when the shaking begins to happen, run, recognize its temper,

but run to the refuge, run to your refuge, run to Jesus Christ, run to the one that's unshakeable. He didn't leave us hopeless. I like what the psalmist said. We'll go to Psalm 46 with me in verse one and two. And I love this particular psalm. It says, God is our refuge and strength. Always ready to help in times. Always ready to help. Always ready to help in times of trouble. So what happens when we run to him? Here are the next things that happen. and when mountains crumble into the sea. Now, you know what I love about the Word of God, especially when the Psalmist wrote this, is that it doesn't deny the reality of trouble. What it's really doing, it reminds us to see what looked stable is now collapsing. Don't lean on that. Enjoy it, but don't lean on that. And in the middle of the collapse, in the middle of your shaking, he says, "In the middle of what you do, a smart thing, and run to your refuge, Jesus Christ. Run to Him for the name of the Lord is a strong tower and the righteous. Come on, they can get it and they are safe." In the middle, he's a shelter for his people. So how many believe God is your refuge? I say it a lot. God is my refuge. God is my refuge. But why is it that for some Christians, every time we say God is our refuge, the first thing you go to is AI to find out how to solve it. Why is it that when God is our refuge where the first thing we're doing is we're crying to somebody before we're crying out to God? Because what we do is we build better relationships with people than we do with the one who is stable. We go to our social media feed, we start going to work, we start working hard, or we start spending money because we're not running to the refuge, or we start not taking care of our body because we don't want to... I listen, I'm not anti-information, I'm not anti-AI, but you better be careful with it. I'm telling you, there's a lot of things happening in this. I'm not against information, not against running to people. But again, information can help you and people can help you, but they cannot carry the weight of your soul

and your hope. They are not wired to do it. Your counselor is not wired to do that. Your pastor is not even wired to do that. I cannot carry the weight of your soul and your hope. You've got to run to the name that is higher than any other name that is Jesus Christ. And look what he says. He says, "I'm always ready to help. I'm always ready to help. When it starts shaking, run to me. I'm always ready to help." He's not watching me from a distance. He's not watching Pastor Brennanized Payne from a distance. No, no, no. He's never too late. The Bible says he is near the brokenhearted. The Bible shows us that he gives strength that when I'm absolutely weary and exhausted, he becomes my strength. It shows me that when I'm grieving and I'm suffering him, I have loss. He's the comfort in the middle of that. Come on. He is the strong tower that I can run into every single day. Where you're running, the problem is, is we run to people. I'm serious. We'll run to AI to see how to solve it before we'll ever run to God to say, "Show me what your words are and show me by the Holy Spirit what I'm to do." Information is great. People are great, but you cannot carry my soul and it cannot carry my soul. Only the strong tower, the refuge, the unshakable kingdom and its king, is only has the power to sustain you and me. Can we give him praise for that, amen? You can run to him. You can run to him and be safe. And here's the beauty of it. Some of us go, "Well, you don't have the clue what I'm going through. I would never trivialize it." I don't know the history of what happened in your childhood. I don't know what you're facing right now with something that just seems like Pastor. I've never dreamed that I'd ever have to go through this. But here's what I know. Here's what I know beyond the shadow of a doubt that in the middle of the shaking, I not only can run to him as a refuge, but I can actually receive into myself this unshakable king and his kingdom into me to respond in the middle of the shaking. Yes, you can. Yes, you can. Let me read this passage scripture. Let's go to verse 28. Let's look at this for a moment. Let's look what he's trying to say to us. He said, "Since we are receiving a kingdom, since we're receiving a kingdom, we're receiving a kingdom that is unshakable, let us be thankful and please God, by worship him with holy fear and all." We're going to cover that just second. But notice what he doesn't say. He doesn't say, "Since I am receiving an unshakable life," that's not what he's saying. He gives you something greater than money, even greater than relationships that walked away from you, even greater than your own health. He gives you something greater. He gives you a kingdom that is

unshakable. So what happens is, is when I'm receiving this kingdom, my security in life is not found on It is founded on knowing who is still on the throne, who is in control of my life, and when everything is going wrong, I still know my destiny, because I'm tied to the king and his kingdom. That's what that means, and that changes everything. Look, folks, you belong to a kingdom that cannot be shaken. So stop wigging out when you see stuff happen in nations. Pray, I'm not telling you to be unconcerned, but I'm telling you, stop wigging out when you see government shaken, when you see the economy shaken, when you see your health shaken, when relationship shaken, your plan shaken, when you see the world, your emotions are shaken. There's a God that is unshakable. He says, you can receive this same God, Jesus Christ, into your spirit to be unshakable when everything around you is falling apart. You can, but you got to receive them. Let me show you this one. Look what Jesus says to his disciples, the same thing he would say to you and me as his disciples. Look at this, John 1633, I want you to look at this. He says, in this world, you will have troubles, but take heart, I have overcome the world. I have overcome the world. Can you say that out loud with me?

I have overcome the, Jesus, if Christ is in you, the hope of glory, the king is in you, his kingdom is in you, can you say this right now to what you're facing? Come on, say it, because it's Jesus saying it out of you. Say it together. I have overcome the world. Now make it, no say it like you just want the devil to soil himself right now, okay? Come on, say it again with me, come on. I have overcome the world. Now praise God because that's absolutely the truth. Praise him because it's true. (congregation applauding) Now I know some of you cynics are sitting back, well that's nothing but a Tony Robbins class he's given us right now. Just repeat after me, positive thinking. Do you think I'm that deluded? Do you think Jesus Christ is that deluded to think, if I could just get them to have positive confession, everything's gonna be all right. Just say it, say it, say it, say it, say it, no, no, no. There's great things that you gotta say to be positive with your words, I get it. But Jesus never denies the existence of the trouble to his disciples when he says this. What he is doing to them and to us is he is preparing you for what's coming and when it comes because you stay tied to the king and his kingdom,

you can declare I have overcome the world. Yeah, you go, well that's easy for you to say. I want you to see when Jesus said this. You read that scripture, but some of you don't put it in the context of when he actually said it. Do you know when he said that? He said that the night before he knew, he was gonna be stretched out on a cross. They were gonna beat him so bad that the scripture said you wouldn't recognize him as a human being. They're gonna spit in his face. They're gonna beat him with a cat of nine tails. They're gonna mock him and strip him naked and then his staff is gonna run from him in fear. The people that once cried, he's the Messiah. Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord are now scurrying and running. He says this the night before it happens and he knows exactly what's going to happen. He's gonna be mocked, he's gonna be ridiculed, he's gonna be abandoned, he's gonna be rejected, he's gonna be crucified, he's gonna be put into him and he knows it. And yet he says, "I have overcome the world." And they didn't believe it, but on the third day, they sure did, that they would die for it. He really was right. He really was right. Jesus is saying this before his worst day

and they're gonna abandon him, so what is he saying? He's saying, "If I overcome Satan "and crush him under my feet, "if I have overcome Satan, "that King in his kingdom lives in you, "so now you have the power within you, that is not you, "but it is the King within you, Satan will not overcome you "just like he did not overcome me." That's why Jesus could look at the grave and he says, "Look, the grave's not gonna hold me, "I'm gonna tell you, three days all rise, "the grave's not gonna hold me." So if the grave didn't hold me, I'm gonna tell you the grave is not gonna hold you because it didn't hold me and I'm inside of you and if it doesn't hold me, it's not gonna hold you, the grave cannot hold you. [applause] me. It won't defeat you because the king is inside of you and the kingdom is you. If he didn't defeat me, then he won't defeat you. Sin will not defeat you. This is the reason why he's saying you won't defeat it. Darkness tried to extinguish my life and it couldn't extinguish my life. So if it didn't extinguish my life, it won't extinguish the light of Jesus Christ that's inside of you in the middle of the shaking. You will still see the light of Jesus Christ. I love watching some of you all worship. Let me tell you why I love watching some of you worship. Because we get all the prayer requests and please send us when you're going through

a struggle, we want to know, but what I love when I watch praise and worship is watching the people in this place worship that I know are going through the worst things that anybody could ever face. Even in wheelchairs and oxygen tanks, it's not going to stop their worship. And then I watch cynics out there. Even Christian cynics going, well, just looking at them, you know, just trying to avoid the realities of things. Oh, no, no, no. You don't have a clue what's going on, do you? But you will, because when everything is shaken, watch. When something is stripped from you, you thought you would have for forever. You end up worshiping what cannot be shaken. When something is shaken, it finally gets your eyes. And so you ultimately begin to worship what isn't shaking. Let me close with this, verse 28, you ready? Since we are receiving a kingdom that is unshakable, watch this. Let us be what? Let us fold our arms and sit through the entire worship service, because nobody knows what I'm going through. No. It says, let us be what everybody? And please God, it means keep doing the right thing, keep doing what he said. Please God, by worshiping him with holy fear and awe. So when everything is shaken, you better worship what remains and is not shaken. Now why worship, why praise, why? Here's what happens, when your life shakes and my life shakes, the natural response that comes out of our human side is worry. Now you get scared, you're fearful. And now when you get fearful, you try to control the situation, but then you see that you can't control it.

And then when you can't control it, then you get angry. Because that's the human response, you start getting angry, and then when you can't get angry and it's not changing, then you get bitter and you get mad, you get bitter not people and you only, not only people, but you get bitter in God, then you start feeling insecure. And here's what's happening to you and me when those things start controlling. What we have done, what you and I've done, is we are interpreting the temporal experience as an eternal reality. When what I need to do is bring the eternal reality into the middle of the temporal experience. And guess what worship does? God says when everything's shaken, you better worship what isn't shaken and what remains. This is why worship is the outcome of people being shaken. God says worship, why? Because what my worship does, my worship reorders my life around the eternal. So when I'm mad and I'm angry and I'm been out of shape and I have no control and I'm an absolute fear, I'm in chaos, he says, go back to the refuge and worship the one that's not shaking because what it does, it reorders all that chaos, all that anger, all that bitterness, all that hurt, it reorders it around something that is temporal, now I am taking the eternal reality and jerk it into the middle of the situation and say, you're not going to rule me. The eternal is going to rule, even in the middle of my shaken, when I feel weary, when I feel fear, when I feel anger, when I feel bitter, I'm going to re-centra myself and reorder my life. That's why worship is so key. Worship doesn't deny what's shaking. It declares what isn't shaking. Oh, that is worth writing down instead of just staring at it. When you worship, it doesn't deny the existence of the problem or the shaking. It's simply declaring, "I know one thing that isn't shaking." I'm not worshiping because the diagnosis is real. I'm worshiping because I still know that God is my healer.

Do you think that Pastor Brennan and I simply worship because grief doesn't seem to hurt us? God, we go through moments of grief and moments of joy and moments of grief, moments of loss. Do you think that we're worshiping because of the grief? No. I worship because he is the resurrection and the life and death can hold no believer in Jesus Christ. And we get these bodies back even in a better way. That's what I know. So I've taken the eternal and bring it into the temple. Are you seeing this? I'm not worshiping because I don't understand everything that's happening. I don't worship because I don't understand things that happen. I can always happen, so I'm going to worship. No, I worship because I know the one who holds me while everything is happening around me. He says, "This is your destiny. This is your purpose, and I am your king, and this kingdom shall never be shaken that is within you." That's what it means. So when you do that, now you can actually live from the kingdom and not from the shaking that's happening around you. When you do that, see, you're going to get shaken by a fence, and I may be the one that offends you. People bounce from church to church to church, house to house to house to house, and they go over and come into fence. I just wish they all could be like Jesus and that church over there. I'll tell you what, honey, this church is just like the last 26 we have visited this year. We're going to find a church that really like Jesus. Instead of being shaken every time you get offended, you start worshiping that God and his kingdom and his kingdom attitude and his kingdom work is inside of you, and you worship that, and then watch the power of his kingdom start living to you that gives you the grace to forgive. So when Jesus is put on the cross, guess what the king says? Father, forgive them. They don't even know what they're doing. See, when you start living from a kingdom power, guess what happens? You can go through great fear and shaking and look at economies and look at your finances, but you're not fearing over your money anymore. You actually start moving and you're trusting God by faith because the king is in you and he will supply all of his kids' deeds according to his riches and glory. When you go through great loss, you don't sit there and all of a sudden curl up in the fetal position. I've lost my job. I've lost my boyfriend. I've lost my girlfriend. I've lost my marriage. I've lost my child. I've lost this. No, you don't curl up. You live from a kingdom perspective and you start seeing God. You're working a higher purpose so I can keep moving

toward the destiny God has intended me. When you're rejected by people and they say we don't want anything to do with you, you have the courage to keep loving people in Jesus Christ's name. Why? Because you're not living from the shaking. You're living from the kingdom that is inside of you and the king is alive in your heart, in your spirit. That's why you worship. Because everything is shaking, but he isn't. And if 9/11 reminds you of anything 25 years ago, it should remind every single person in this nation and in this building. Earthly things can and will be shaken. But one thing will always remain. It is the eternal kingdom of God and the king that will not fail. Thank you Holy Spirit. It's a Holy Spirit. You're doing a deep work in this room this morning. Because you brought brothers and sisters, you brought friends into this room that are being shaken. And maybe even the shaken wasn't just things like the world and money and health. It might Everybody's climbing the ladder, Lord, will you help us move it from the paper wall and attach it to the king and the kingdom that is unshakable, that lives within them. And as we begin to worship Lord, reorder their life, not by their emotions, simply not by what's shaking around them, the loss. Let them reorder and bring the eternal king and his kingdom into the temporal realities because they are temporal, but you are eternal. And Lord, even when sin is there, when we live by the kingdom and when sin invades our life, the kingdom says, I give mercy and grace and forgiveness. And out of that Lord repentance comes to the heart of a man or a woman and they turn and they go to the one that overcomes the sin that seems to invade their life. Lord let us exchange the paper wall of sin that is so temporary and will rip and crash and turn our lives to the one who gives us mercy, grace, forgiveness. Do it today for my friends God. All your heads are bowed, no one moved just for a moment, just for a moment, no one moved. This morning I just believe that there are folks in this room that say, you know what pastor I have been building my life and it's not been built on Jesus Christ. Maybe Satan brought you, when you walked this place, all he could bring to you was nothing but condemnation that you didn't belong here, that you can never live the life of that pastor and those singers up there.

Well, you don't know our story, but we found a king in his kingdom that when sin invades his grace much more abounds, it does. And you can receive it today. You say pastor Sam, I want to sell out to the king, Jesus Christ. And maybe you have maybe you've turned away from him, and maybe you've never surrendered your life to Jesus Christ. Maybe you've never done that, and you say today I want to give my life to him. Pastor Sam, I want to surrender to Jesus Christ. Or maybe one point you were running to the refuge, but now you started running to other things that gave you that momentary sense of a security or a satisfaction only discovered. It was another paper wall, and you say pastor Sam, I'm coming back to Jesus Christ. I want to live in him and he and me, Jesus in me and in his kingdom. I want that today because I don't have that pastor Sam. If you say yes to him and you want to say yes to him today, I'm going to simply count to three and I'm going to ask you to lift your hand toward heaven. Just lift it toward heaven. You're not lifted to me because I can't save you. I was not made to carry the weight of your soul, but he already did it on the cross. You can receive it. You said pastor I need him to come into my life. I want to surrender to Jesus Christ. Some of you are watching online right now. This is your opportunity. There's a pastor waiting for you. Just say, let him know right now I'm giving my life to Jesus Christ. And if you're in this room, I want you to simply lift your hand. When I count to three, you say to pastor Sam, I'm surrendering to him today. Here we go. Ready? Holy Spirit, reveal to them that the kingdom of God is at hand right there in front of

him and they need to receive Jesus Christ that King in Jesus name. Here we go. Ready? Just lift it. When I count to three, one, two, three, just lift it up pastor. That's for me today. God bless you. Just lift it up high. All over this room, just lift it up high. Way in the balcony. He loves you. He sees you. Absolutely. Just leave it up there for a moment. Leave it up there for a moment. Those of you that are just lifting your hand, just leave it there for a second. You're going to feel someone just put something in your hand. It's a card. You don't need to pay any attention to it right now, but just grab that card and when you receive that card, just put your hand down. Is there anybody else? Those of you watching online, but people are raising their hands here. There's a pastor waiting there right there for you. They're going to pray with you. They're going to help you walk this walk of faith with Jesus Christ. Thank you, Jesus. You can put your hands down. Those of you that just raised your hand to receive Jesus in his kingdom, you don't have to give any money. You have to give something much more than that.

You got to give your life to him, just like he gave his life to you. And that simply comes. That's all you do. You say, Pastor Sam, I want to receive him today. Then I want to lead you in this prayer, and God is listening to you right now. Those who watch it online, God is listening to you right now. And you're not going to say it alone. This whole church family is going to say it with you, OK? They're going to say it with you. And I want you to say this to him. Church family, would you join him? Say, Jesus, you are the King of kings and the Lord of lords. And your kingdom is unshakeable. But I want to thank you, Jesus, that you gave your life for me. And when you went to that cross, you just didn't overcome Satan and sin and death, you overcame it for me. And I receive it today. So Jesus, I invite you in. I want you to be the Lord of my life. I choose to follow you. I choose to surrender to you. And so Jesus, I receive everything you have, and that you are. I receive your love. I receive your forgiveness. I receive new life in you. I receive eternal life. Jesus, be my Lord. And I'm your child. I will never be the same.

From this day forward, I'm following you until I see you face to face in that eternal kingdom. Amen and amen. Come on, let's give him praise, everybody.