Have You Come to the Right Mountain?
Good Morning Friends,
Not even the devil can stop what is going to happen. But still we each have our part to play and the choices to make. Which brings us to today’s question. Have You Come to the Right Mountain?
Scripture: You have not come to something that can be touched, a blazing fire, and darkness, and gloom, and a tempest, and the sound of a trumpet, and a voice whose words made the hearers beg that not another word be spoken to them. (For they could not endure the order that was given, “If even an animal touches the mountain, it shall be stoned to death.” Indeed, so terrifying was the sight that Moses said, “I tremble with fear.”) 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, 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, and to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks a better word than the blood of Abel.
Hebrews 12:18-24 (NRSV)
Afterward Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and said, “Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, ‘Let my people go, so that they may celebrate a festival to me in the wilderness.'” But Pharaoh said, “Who is the Lord, that I should heed him and let Israel go? I do not know the Lord, and I will not let Israel go.”
Exodus 5:1-2 (NRSV)
And one called to another and said: “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts;
the whole earth is full of his glory.” The pivots on the thresholds shook at the voices of those who called, and the house filled with smoke. And I said: “Woe is me! I am lost, for I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips; yet my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts!”
Isaiah 6:3-5 (NRSV)
Message: The book of Exodus is a profound and powerful document relevant for all of us today. Here we learn how families are liberated from death and the promise of the power of the blood of Christ in a new covenant of love in a shining City on a hill made even clearer in today’s passage from Hebrews. We have been freed to worship in the deep love of God. The vision of Isaiah points us in the direction of this worship. Friends, here we have to stop playing at being the church. Here we are to receive the blessings of Zion and the ministry of angels. Friends, we are in a perpetual state of confusion if we do not replace our sins with God’s purpose. Here is the choice… it is either the blood of Abel, which demands vengeance, or the blood of Christ, which provides forgiveness. Friends, the rule of God’s grace and judgment cannot be shaken. The power and promises of the Word of God cannot be shaken. Even the church cannot be shaken…for we have been promised that the children of God shall dwell in eternal inheritance in that city whose architect and builder is God. Do you realize you are not alone in this search? Do you realize there is a place so holy that it multiplies God’s glory in a brand new dimension of love? Have you experienced this kind of worship? Are you ready to go to the mountain where the saints and angels gather? Have you seen Jesus on the throne?
Pray we are released and set free. Pray we embrace God’s plan of deliverance. Pray for a City that cannot be shaken ever. Pray we set an example in our homes with a visible sign of the hope and the promise of salvation. Pray we ask God to redeem our homes. Pray we meet God in the wilderness and are called out for purpose. Pray for a solution that is a living vibrant relationship with God…an outpouring of the Holy Spirit. Pray for God to destroy the bondage and replace it with a purpose whose architect is God. Pray we get out of our sins and messes and replace them with a vision and purpose worthy of God. Pray we are shaken into real worship in the Spirit of heaven…a place the devil is not allowed to go. Pray we get wrapped up, tangled up in the persistent presence of the Glory of God. Pray we live in the city of the living God where the saints pray with us. Pray we catch on fire with a light for the nations. Pray our fears and sins are drowned in a river of flowing words of worship worthy of God. Pray we rejoice in the glory of God’s forgiveness and our own liberation when we forgive.
Blessings,
John Lawson
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