Tuesday, May 12, 2009

The blood that speaks better things [Mount Zion]

It happened again. It's the word Zion again. As I was walking back after my work, I just felt led to put on a sermon from 2001, How to live successfully in the last days" and I further forward it to the middle section. To my surprise, Pastor preached a large portion of it on Mt Zion. Mt Zion again??! gosh...(read my previous post if you're clueless),
I just feel that God really wants to bring back the message of grace to great height. For the church to radically know and understand this truth. I'm guilty of having mixed law and grace but I've witness the beauty of falling into His arm of grace in my deepest moments.
I love the verse quoted in the sermon from Hebrew 12:18-24
(Mt. Sinai)For you have not come to the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor to blackness, and darkness, and tempest, And the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which voice they that heard entreated 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 you have come to mount Zion, and to 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, And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaks better things that that of Abel.
I love the example quoted by Pastor. "If a person murders someone, the victims blood cries for vengeance. But in the blood of Jesus, it cries for mercy, for forgiveness, prosperity, supply, intimacy and protection. Jesus blood don't warn you, but loves you."
Just saw this. For a sinner who does wrong, ie. murder, there's a voice of vengeance in the blood of the victim. That voice will condemn your wrong actions, remind you of your sins...but in Christ we are now covered in his blood. For the failure, we 'deserve' to be punished, condemn but instead we receive forgiveness, protection, supply and grace....everything that Jesus has died for us...simply because we are covered in His blood. The voice that calls out now is His voice of love. Dun reject the voice of grace. Dun accept the lie the devil plays in your mind that you are not forgiven of your sins. You are the His beloved. In you He sees no fault.

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