Hebrews 12:15-29

Sermon Bible Commentary - Hebrews 12:18-29

Hebrews 12:18-29 Mount Sinai and Mount Zion. In this passage are mentioned seven great and solemn heavenly realities. I. Mount Zion. Mount Sinai represents the law. It manifests the majesty of God above us as creatures, the wrath of God against us as sinners; it reveals to us God's judgment and our condemnation; it convinces us of our guilt and of our strengthlessness; it represents the state of fear and darkness, of distance and alienation from God. It is winter, without sunshine, without... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Hebrews 12:22

Hebrews 12:18 , Hebrews 12:22 Sinai and Sion. I. The points of contrast in the text are, that Sinai was the emblem of a sensuous, and Sion of a spiritual, economy, and that Sinai was a system of rigour, and the Gospel is a system of love. Sinai is represented as the mount that might be touched, that is, something palpable, the emblem of a material framework, of a system of gorgeous ceremonies and local shrines, and of impressiveness of external appearance. This was very largely characteristic... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Hebrews 12:22-23

Hebrews 12:22-23 Where and with whom faith lives. I. Where faith lives. (1) The life of a man who has truly laid hold of Jesus Christ, and so is living by faith, is on its inward side that is, in deepest reality a life passed in the dwelling of the great King. (2) The privilege has for its other side a duty; the duty has for its foundation a privilege. For if it be true that the real life of every believing soul is a life that never moves from the temple-palace where God is, and that its inmost... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Hebrews 12:23

Hebrews 12:23 Faith's Access to the Judge and His Attendants. I. Faith plants us at the very bar of God. "Ye are come to God the Judge of all." (1) Here is a truth which it is the office of faith to realise continually in our daily lives. He would be a bold criminal who would commit crimes in the very judgment hall and before the face of his judge. And that must be a very defective Christian faith which, like the so-called faith of many amongst us, goes through life and sins in the entire... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Hebrews 12:24

Hebrews 12:24 The Messenger of the Covenant and its Seal. I. God's revelation to us is in the form of a covenant. The promises of the covenant are, full forgiveness as the foundation of all, and built upon that knowledge of God inwardly illuminating and making a man independent of external helps, though he may sometimes be grateful for them, then a mutual possession which is based upon these, and then as the result of all named first, but coming last in the order of nature the law of His... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Hebrews 12:25

Hebrews 12:25 Refusing God's Voice. I. We have here, first of all, the solemn possibility of refusal. It is possible for Christian people so to cherish wills and purposes which they know to be in diametrical and flagrant contradiction to the will and purpose of God, that obstinately they prefer to stick by their own desires, and, if it may be, to stifle the voice of God. II. Note the sleepless vigilance necessary to counteract the tendency to refusal. "See that ye refuse not." A warning finger... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Hebrews 12:26-27

Hebrews 12:26-27 The Shaking of Sinai and Calvary. I. That voice of Sinai was a shaking of earthly things. How were nations dispossessed? How were thrones tumbled into the dust? How was the course of human history and human life changed or directed by that shaking of Sinai? And so with the shaking voice of Calvary. Earthly things were moved, and are still moved, by the power of that voice Divine. Sinai stands like a rock in the midst of a stream, and turns and separates the current. Calvary,... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Hebrews 12:27

Hebrews 12:27 Things which cannot be shaken. In this remarkable verse the writer goes to the heart of the philosophy of religion and of history. He declares that through the ages runs one ever-increasing purpose, and this purpose is the will of God. I. It is said that when the King of Prussia visited the playing-fields of our Eton college he said, "Blessed is the land in which the old is ever mingled with the new, and the new ever mingled with the old." To cling to the old when the new demands... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Hebrews 12:28

Hebrews 12:28 The Immovable Kingdom. Consider the immobility of the kingdom which we receive and the service which citizenship in this kingdom requires. I. The immovable character of the kingdom of God. Even a careless observer and superficial thinker will not fail to recognise, in the midst of all the shifting and changing scenes and events of nature and human life, a stable, ceaseless, unswerving principle, which ever emerges, and plainly controls all objects and all actions with resistless... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Hebrews 12:28-29

Hebrews 12:28-29 The Religion of the Day. In every age of Christianity, since it was first preached, there has been what may be called a religion of the world, which so far imitates the one true religion as to deceive the unstable and unwary. The world does not oppose religion as such. It has in all ages acknowledged, in one sense or other, the Gospel of Christ, fastened on one or other of its characteristics, and professed to embody this in its practice; while, by neglecting the other parts... read more

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