18-21 Unlike your ancestors, you didn’t come to Mount Sinai—all that volcanic blaze and earthshaking rumble—to hear God speak. The earsplitting words and soul-shaking message terrified them and they begged him to stop. When they heard the words—“If an animal touches the Mountain, it’s as good as dead”—they were afraid to move. Even Moses was terrified.
22-24 No, that’s not your experience at all. You’ve come to Mount Zion,
the city where the living God resides. The invisible Jerusalem is populated by
throngs of festive angels and Christian citizens. It is the city where God is
Judge, with judgments that make us just. You’ve come to Jesus, who presents
us with a new covenant, a fresh charter from God. He is the Mediator of this
covenant. The murder of Jesus, unlike Abel’s—a homicide that cried out for
vengeance—became a proclamation of grace.
(Hebrews 12:18-24/The Message)
You and I have come to the blood
of Jesus which proclaims to us God’s rich grace and mercy through Christ. The blood of Jesus is the key to spiritual
life and to all godliness. We know that
if we have come to the blood of Jesus it is only be the Holy Spirit and of
God’s grace that we have come.
We did not come to this blood on
any merits of our own. We were guilty,
lost, defiled, helpless, and bankrupt when we came to stand under the cleansing
crimson flow. We were full of sin but
the Savior called us by name and bid us to lift our eyes to him. As we gazed upon his streaming wounds, each
drop of blood cries out “It is finished…I have put an end to the power of sin…I
have brought in everlasting life and righteousness.”
If you have come to that blood
once, you will keep coming back to it over and over again as your life
continually looks to Jesus the author and perfector of your faith. Your life will be about “looking to Jesus”
constantly and all the more the closer you draw to him. It’s not to Him that we “come” but it is to
Him that we are always coming. If you
have ever come to the cleansing blood of Jesus and had it wash over you and
have felt the cleansing power -- you
will feel the need of coming to this flow every day.
Charles Spurgeon said, “He who does not
desire to wash in it every day, has never washed in it at all. The believer ever feels it to be his joy and
privilege that there is still a fountain opened.”
We cannot live by our experiences
alone. Past experiences are not a sure
foundation for us as Christians. We must
continually come to the cross and build our faith in nothing less than Jesus
blood and righteousness AND upon the foundation of Christ and his cleansing
blood. We need a present coming to
Christ alone is the only thing that can give us real joy and comfort.
As they did the first Passover,
let us daily sprinkle the door-post of our hearts with fresh blood from His
sacrifice and then feast upon the Lamb of God being assured that the destroyer
will pass us by.
Pastor Chad
