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May 05, 2024

Hebrews: Unshakable Kingdom

Passage: Hebrews 12:18-29

Speaker: Brian Land

Series: Hebrews: Fulfilled in Christ

Category: Grace Brevard

Keywords: heaven, grace, forgiveness, law, sinai, zion

We struggle to live with a "law" mindset with Christ, thinking our obedience dictates our position before God. But God gave the Law as a great revealer (of sin, self and God) and a precursor to Jesus, who would perfectly obey the Law and die as our ultimate and final sacrifice, bringing us to Zion, the Mountain of Grace, and ultimately to the Heavenly Jerusalem, the Unshakable Kingdom that will never fade.

Central Passage:

Heb 12
18 For you have not come to what may be touched, a blazing fire and darkness and gloom and a tempest 19 and the sound of a trumpet and a voice whose words made the hearers beg that no further messages be spoken to them. 20 For they could not endure the order that was given, “If even a beast touches the mountain, it shall be stoned.” 21 Indeed, so terrifying was the sight that Moses said, “I tremble with fear.” 22 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, 23 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, 24 and to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks a better word than the blood of Abel.

25 See that you do not refuse him who is speaking. For if they did not escape when they refused him who warned them on earth, much less will we escape if we reject him who warns from heaven. 26 At that time his voice shook the earth, but now he has promised, “Yet once more I will shake not only the earth but also the heavens.” 27 This phrase, “Yet once more,” indicates the removal of things that are shaken—that is, things that have been made—in order that the things that cannot be shaken may remain. 28 Therefore let us be grateful for receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, and thus let us offer to God acceptable worship, with reverence and awe, 29 for our God is a consuming fire.

 

Sermon Discussion Questions:

 

  • Read the passage all together.
  • Mt. Sinai - The Law
    • What is the purpose of the Law
      • (Revealer of God, Self and Sin?)
  • Mt. Zion - Grace
    • What is “Mt. Zion”?
    • What does it mean that your name is written in the book of life?
    • How do we go to Sinai to get what can only be gotten at Zion?
      • What does God’s “face” look like when you fail?
      • Do you find it hard to receive and give forgiveness?
      • Why is repentance difficult?
      • Do you ever feel like “God owes me”?

 

  • The Heavenly Jerusalem
    • What are you thoughts on what “heaven” is like?
    • Look through that massive descriptor sentence (vvs 22-24)
    • How does “Restored Creation” sync with Hollywood’s version?
    • What are the take aways and application in the final verse?