The Two Mountains (Heb 12: 18 - 28)

Imagine you were in front of the mount Sinai today - the mountain is ablaze with fire even as God's wrath is waiting to consume all of the israelites. Everybody is trembling and shaking and nobody has the courage to as much as touch the mountain's foot even as a tempest is at bay. So terrible is the site that even Moses said "i exceedingly fear and quake" (Heb 12: 19). Could you and i stand amidst such a charged atmosphere and whisper our vain prayers and confessions? I think not.

God redeemed us to mount zion. We stand today in the city of the living God and in the company of innumerable angels (Heb 12: 22). We stand today in the church of the firstborn, in front of God the judge of all (Heb 12: 23). And we answer "to Jesus, the mediator of the new covenant and the blood of sprinkling" (Heb 12: 24). So, my friend be sure to refuse him not; "for if they escaped not who refused Him that spake on earth, much more shall we not escape, if we turn away from Him that speaketh from heaven" (Heb 12: 25). Our true home is not Sinai but Calvary. At the first mount there is no place for the sinner; at the second mount there is place for no one else. For here we find the grace to drop the burden of sin and find our way back to the holiness we lost at Sinai; it is here we begin to wear the garments of salvation. "Therefore let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear - for our God is a consuming fire!" (Heb 12: 27, 28)