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Introduction: Now after giving the contrast between Mount Sinai and Mount Zion, the writer says, “You must not ignore Him who is speaking.”
If men were accountable for obeying God when he commanded them on Sinai, how much more will they be held accountable now that he instructs from Mount Zion.
The unbelieving Israelites who ignored God at Sinai did not enter into the promised land, and unbelievers today who ignore God when He speaks through His Son from Zion will not enter into the heavenly promised land.
When man chooses to ignore God there is then no escape for Him.
It is true that the blessings received in the New Covenant are much greater than the blessings received in the Old Covenant, but the consequences for refusing the New Covenant is also much greater.
At Sinai, God shook the earth.
From Zion He is also going to shake the heavens.
If unbelievers did not escape when the earth was shaken, how much less will they be able to escape when both the heaven and earth are shaken?
This is exactly what the prophets predicted predicted will happen.
Commenting on the quotation from Haggai, the writer explains that in the end everything physical (those things which can be shaken) will be destroyed and only the eternal things will remain.
Peter tell us this:
In the end, this fallen world will be totally destroyed by the wrath of God.
However, some things are unshakable and it is those things that will remain.
This is the kingdom of God that we are invited to receive and it is a kingdom which cannot be shaken.
We are invited to become citizens of that kingdom through Christ, and that kingdom will never be taken from us and we will never be taken from it.
It is eternal, unchanging, and immovable.
For this incredible blessing in Christ, we should have grace (gratitude), by which we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear.
The right response to Christ is worship and service to our Savior who is worthy of it, for He is better than anything and anyone.
As the main body of Hebrews then comes to a close, the writer issues one of the severest warnings in the book of Hebrews: for our God is a consuming fire.
The writer is saying one last time, “Some of you have come to the edge of full acceptance of Christ.
Don’t turn your back on Christ now!
Away from Christ there is only judgment.”
Conclusion: Even today, the choice is the same.
Whether Jew or Gentile, those who try to approach God through their own works find that their works only fall short and cannot save.
All must trust in the atoning work of Christ and come to Zion where our heavenly priest will mediate for us and bring us into the very presence of God.
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