Our God is a Consuming Fire
Jonathan Pennington · May 3, 2026 · 12:15 PM service
Jonathan Pennington preaches from the closing verses of Hebrews 12 on what it means that our God is a consuming fire. He connects the shaking of the earth at Sinai in Deuteronomy 4 and 5 with the future shaking of heaven and earth foretold in Isaiah 13 and Haggai 2, then turns to 1 Corinthians 3 and the judgment seat of Christ, where every believer's work is tried by fire to see whether it was gold, silver, and precious stones or wood, hay, and stubble. He urges hearers to stop holding part of themselves back, to be willing to be inconvenienced by God, and to spend their lives on what will last, closing with the poem "Only One Life" by C. T. Studd.
“For ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest, And the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which voice they that heard intreated that the word should not be spoken to them any more: (For they could not endure that which was commanded, And if so much as a beast touch the mountain, it shall be stoned, or thrust through with a dart: And so terrible was the sight, that Moses said, I exceedingly fear and quake:) But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels, To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect, …”