Summoned to Mount Zion, 5

SUMMONED TO MOUNT ZION, PART 5.
TEXT: Hebrews 12:18-29.

SUMMARY: In this passage, Paul uses the language of a journey and an arrival at a destination to admonish his hearers to make the right choice lest they fall into judgment.

I. MT. SINAI: THE LONG ROAD BEHIND THEM (vv. 18-21).
II. MT. ZION, THE GLORY ALL AROUND THEM (vv. 22-24).
A. Characteristics.

1. The "place."
   ― "Mount Zion."
   ― "The city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem."
2. The inhabitants.
   ― "An innumerable company of angels" (v. 22).
   ― "The general assembly." (v. 23).
   ― The "church of the firstborn," (v.23).
   ― "whose names are registered in heaven."
   ― "To the spirits of just men made perfect" (v. 23).
3. The sovereign Ruler.
   ― "to Jesus the Mediator of the new covenant."
4. The means of entry.
   ― "to the blood of sprinkling that speaks better things than that of Abel."