"So they came to Jerusalem. Then Jesus went into the temple and began to drive out those who bought and sold in the temple, and overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those who sold doves. And He would not allow anyone to carry wares through the temple. Then He taught, saying to them, 'Is it not written, '''My house shall be called a house of prayer for all nations'''? But you have made it a '''den of thieves.''' ' And the scribes and the chief priests HEARD it and SOUGHT how they might destroy Him, for they FEARED Him, because all the people were astonished at His teaching."
(Mark 11:15-18)
When your confidence is shaken, and it will be as that is a component of His cross for our salvation, how will you respond?
"See that you do not refuse Him who speaks. For if they did not escape who refused Him who spoke on earth, much more shall we not escape if we turn away from Him who speaks from heaven, whose voice then shook the earth; but now He has promised, saying, 'Yet once more I shake not only the earth, but also heaven.' Now this, 'Yet once more,' indicates the removal of those things that are being shaken, as of things that are made, that the things that cannot be shaken may remain. Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom which cannot be shaken, let us have grace, by which we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear. For our God is a consuming fire." (Hebrews 12:25-29)
An important statement in that verse, "are receiving", makes the point that there must be exchanges of what we think for what God knows, through His Son, Jesus Christ. Jesus taught His disciples that they should ''say unto this mountain", their confidence in the flesh, for whatever is not Spirit, is flesh; "be removed and be cast into the sea", proactively removing that which is hindering their vision: "the plank in their eye".
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