Faith Essentials Part 4 | May 25 2025 @ 10AM Pastor Osbon
May 24, 2025
Hebrews 12:26-28 “When God spoke from Mount Sinai, His voice shook the earth, but now He makes another promise: ‘Once again I will shake not only the earth but the heavens also.’ This means that all of creation will be shaken and removed, so that only unshakable things will remain. Since we are receiving a Kingdom that is unshakable, let us be thankful and please God by worshiping Him with holy fear and awe.”
The Essential Of Unshakeableness
Exodus 19:18 “All of Mount Sinai was covered with smoke because the Lord had descended on it in the form of fire. The smoke billowed into the sky like smoke from a brick kiln, and the whole mountain shook violently.”
Matthew 7:24-27 “Anyone who listens to My teaching and follows it is wise, like a person who builds a house on solid rock. Though the rain comes in torrents and the floodwaters rise and the winds beat against that house, it won’t collapse because it is built on bedrock. But anyone who hears My teaching and doesn’t obey it is foolish, like a person who builds a house on sand. When the rains and floods come and the winds beat against that house, it will collapse with a mighty crash.”
1) Brokenness
Isaiah 54:10 “‘For the mountains may move and the hills disappear, but even then My faithful love for you will remain. My covenant of blessing will never be broken,’ says the Lord, who has mercy on you.”
Psalm 134:18 “God is close to the brokenhearted; He rescues those whose spirits are crushed.”
2) Weakness
Matthew 26:41 “Keep watch and pray, so that you will not give in to temptation. For the spirit is willing, but the body is weak!”
2 Corinthians 12:4-5 “…I was caught up to paradise and heard things so astounding that they cannot be expressed in words, things no human is allowed to tell. That experience is worth boasting about, but I’m not going to do it. I will boast only about my weaknesses.”
2 Corinthians 12:7b-9a “So to keep me from becoming proud, I was given a thorn in my flesh, a messenger from Satan to torment me and keep me from becoming proud. Three different times I begged the Lord to take it away. Each time He said, ‘My grace is all you need. My power works best in weakness.’”
3) Weariness
Hebrews 12:1-2a “Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a huge crowd of witnesses to the life of faith, let us strip off every weight that slows us down, especially the sin that so easily trips us up. And let us run with endurance the race God has set before us. We do this by keeping our eyes on Jesus, the champion who initiates and perfects our faith.”
Matthew 11:28 “Jesus said, ‘Come to Me, all of you who are weary and carry heavy burdens, and I will give you rest.’”
Galatians 6:9 “Let us not grow weary while doing good, for in due season we shall reap if we do not lose heart.”
The big idea: The essentials are essential.