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Our world is one of perpetual flux and uncertainty. Nations rise and fall. Our nation is under siege by hedonistic, God-hating Humanism, disguised as “secularism”—causing cataclysmic cultural and moral rot. Much of professed “Christianity” has surrendered to decadent theological, moral, and philosophical forces rather than oppose and expose them as Satan’s devices. We live in an unstable world where change is the great constant.
Security and stability are basic human desires, but they can never be satisfied in physical and material effects. Unshakable things are found only in spiritual, eternal verities:
- God: From the Garden of Eden, men have defied God. France “abolished” God in 1793 (only to vote Him back “into existence” in 1796). Such childish defiance would doubtless amuse God did it not so grieve Him. God is not even “sick,” much less dead, as some theologians of our era once declared and as the Hitchenses and Dawkinses now trumpet. We did not create Him; He created us—and Men cannot destroy Him, but He can destroy us (Mat. 10:28). “Thou art from everlasting” (Psa. 93:2b). God is unshakable.
- God’s Word: For centuries impudent, narcissistic men have assailed the Bible, predicting its speedy demise. The Voltaires, Rousseaus, Bolingbrokes, Paines, and their modern counterparts never learn. The Bible has proved itself quite capable of surviving the most awful assaults, coming out ever stronger from the struggle. No book of mere human literary origin could do so. In a world of doubt, despair, and decline, it remains the static source of hope, joy, peace, purity, and salvation to those wise enough to embrace it. “The word of our God shall stand forever” (Isa. 40:8b). It is unshakable.
- Jesus’ kingdom/church: Satan sought to prevent its beginning by slaying Jesus (Mat. 16:18–19). Saul of Tarsus tried to destroy it (Acts 8:1–3; 9:1–2). The Roman Empire could not crush it. False philosophies, legislation, or other assailants of the present will fare no better. The church is “a kingdom that cannot be shaken” (Heb. 12:23, 28). It is that indestructible, “forever” kingdom Daniel foretold five centuries before its founding (Dan. 2:44). Jesus’ kingdom, now still on earth, is a spiritual, unshakable entity (John 18:36).
- Heaven: Many deny Hell, while espousing Heaven, but they stand or fall together (Mat. 25:46). Heaven is the “Father’s House” where Jesus will take His church upon His return (John 14:2–3; 1 Cor. 15:24). It is a place of bliss where sin, sorrow, and suffering can never enter, “incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away” (1 Pet. 1:3).
[Note: I wrote this article for and it was published in the Denton Record-Chronicle, Denton, TX, September 12, 2014.]
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