The Death of Death #9 - The Earth Shakes and the Death of Fear

 50 And Jesus cried out again with a loud voice and yielded up his spirit.

 51 And behold, the curtain of the temple was torn in two, from top to bottom. And the earth shook, and the rocks were split. (Matthew 27:50-51 ESV)

Big Idea: Faith in Jesus doesn’t eliminate fear, but Jesus’ death was phase one of a two phase mission to destroy all things that shake his people.  The earthquake at Jesus’ death pictured that.

 

 

I. Shakiness of approaching God causes us to fear and shake- legit faith (Hebrews 12:21)

 

II. The death(removal) of things that can be shaken. Hebrews 12:27

 

III. Faith lives now and looks forward to The death of fear in the kingdom that cannot be shaken. (Hebrews 12:28-29)

 

¹⁸ For you have not come to what may be touched, a blazing fire and darkness and gloom and a tempest ¹⁹ and the sound of a trumpet and a voice whose words made the hearers beg that no further messages be spoken to them. ²⁰ For they could not endure the order that was given, "If even a beast touches the mountain, it shall be stoned." ²¹ Indeed, so terrifying was the sight that Moses said, "I tremble with fear." ²² But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable angels in festal gathering,²³ and to the assembly of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, and to God, the judge of all, and to the spirits of the righteous made perfect, ²⁴ and to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks a better word than the blood of Abel.²⁵ See that you do not refuse him who is speaking. For if they did not escape when they refused him who warned them on earth, much less will we escape if we reject him who warns from heaven. ²⁶ At that time his voice shook the earth, but now he has promised, "Yet once more I will shake not only the earth but also the heavens." ²⁷ This phrase, "Yet once more," indicates the removal of things that are shaken-- that is, things that have been made-- in order that the things that cannot be shaken may remain. ²⁸ 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, ²⁹ for our God is a consuming fire.

 (Heb 12:18-29 ESV)