Acceptable Worship (Heb. 12:14-29)

[Sung Psalm: 77]

Did you know that the priesthood of all believers is an Old Testament idea? The whole people of Israel – the whole church in the OT – is a "kingdom of priests" "a holy nation."

The apostle Peter uses this same theme in 1 Peter 2, when he says that "you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light."

God's purpose in calling Israel out of Egypt is what Jesus brings to pass!

God desires to dwell with his people. But for a holy God to dwell with his people, they must also be holy. And that is what the whole story at Sinai is all about – indeed, it is what the whole story of scripture is showing – because without holiness, no one will see the Lord!

But what God was showing them – and us – is that there is no way to approach a holy God, unless he makes that way...