Let’s Chat: Pleased to Dwell 22

the preacher urges the readers to consider their destiny. It is not Mount Sinai with all that was inadequate about the Old Covenant – that was a fearful place. But instead our destiny is Mount Zion and the city of God – a place of gathering to God the Father and His Son, a place of light and a place of community celebration![1]

You can see all posts in this series by clicking on this line.

We’ve seen from the video how amazing it is that Jesus stepped down and became lower than the angels. He did this to taste death for everyone, and is now crowned above all. What does this mean for us?

We see Jesus, and we trust and follow Him. From the Old Testament to the New, the exhortation the Bible gives to believers might be simply summarized as Trust God, keep moving. From Abraham to Israel: Trust God, look to His promises, and keep moving. For us: Trust God, look to Jesus, keep moving toward Him.

What’s at the end of this trusting, seeing, and following?

It is not Mount Sinai with all that was inadequate about the Old Covenant – that was a fearful place. But instead our destiny is Mount Zion and the city of God – a place of gathering to God the Father and His Son, a place of light and a place of community celebration![2]

Augustine furthers this idea, as quoted in the book. Every step we take toward Jesus, trusting Him, is a step further up and further in to something better than angelic…

…He leads us, not to the immortal blessed angels so as to become immortal and blessed by sharing in their nature, but to that Trinity in communion with which even the angels are blessed.[3]

Let’s Chat

Better than angelic… have you ever thought about what Jesus gives us as being better than angelic?

How has the sermon of Hebrews encouraged you?

---

[1] Peter Mead, Pleased to Dwell,

[2] Peter Mead, Pleased to Dwell,

[3] Peter Mead, Pleased to Dwell,