Receiving a kingdom

God's people need to remember who they are and where they belong. At the climax of his letter, the writer to the Hebrews contrasts the revelation and reality of Sinai and Zion, emphasising the blessings of the New Covenant to which believers belong. This does not in any way dilute or diminish the believer's responsibility, but rather heightens and intensifies it, and makes the folly of Esau (with regard to his birthright) or Israel at Sinai (idolatrous and immoral) all the more fearful. The preacher therefore concludes with a stirring exhortation concerning the unshakeable kingdom to which God's people belong, the manner of service, the kind of worship, which we render if we know the glory and majesty of the God whom we serve.