{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Collierville First Baptist Church","title":"Wed Study | Oct 30, 2024 | Session #31 | Hebrews 12:18-24","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":3847,"description":"Session #31—Hebrews 12:18-24The book of Hebrews makes frequent comparisons between the old covenantand the new covenant to demonstrate the vast superiority of the privileges andbenefits believers enjoy in the new covenant. Tonight we come to another one ofthose powerful comparisons. This time the symbolism involves two mountains.Mount Sinai is something like Jacob’s stew, while Mount Zion is like Esau’sbirthright. The birthright and its blessings were vastly better, but these werefuture and thus “unseen.”The revelation of God to Israel at Mount Sinai was seen, heard, smelled (thesmoke), and felt (the earthquakes). The law that was given set forth God’sconditions for Israel’s enjoyment of an earthly kingdom. Judaism clung to Sinai,Moses, and the Old Covenant because it seemed to offer a more immediate andmore visible kingdom.Mount Zion, on the other hand, represents a spiritual city (“the heavenlyJerusalem”) and thus a spiritual kingdom. Mount Zion represents all thatChristians hope for in the next life and that for which they are willing to makegreat sacrifices in this life. Just as Esau had to make a choice between a bowl ofstew and God’s promised blessings, so the Jewish readers had to choose betweena present, earthly, Jewish kingdom (Mount Sinai) with its earthly temple, or God’spromised eternal kingdom (Mount Zion).This passage provides a fascinating and frightening warning ofGod’s judgment. Every human being will be judged by the law or bygrace, by his own works or by Christ’s work, by the provisions ofMount Sinai or by the provisions of Mount Zion.God has two sets of books. One set contains the names of those who haverejected the Lord Jesus Christ. The other set records the names of those whohave received the Lord Jesus Christ by faith.1October 30, 2024CFBC… Wednesday Night StudyHebrews 12:18–19a… For you have not come to a mountain that can betouched and to a blazing fire, and to darkness and gloom and whirlwind, 19 andto the blast of a trumpet and the...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/AZsyihvbj5bH--pG91DBLNR6G2La91zZuxAz55RsERc/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzMyNjkzLzE2NTg3/NjU1MzAtYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}