Better City

I. Mount Sinai: Law v. 18-21

(ESV)

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.”

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21 Indeed, so terrifying was the sight

that Moses said,

“I tremble with fear.”

This is an allusion to

Galatians 2:16 ESV

yet we know that a person is not justified by works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, so we also have believed in Christ Jesus, in order to be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the law, because by works of the law no one will be justified.

The Law cannot save

The Law condemns

II. Mount Zion: Grace v. 22-24

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.

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We have access to God through Jesus Christ

Our destiny is to live with God forever