Sinai Or Sion

SINAI OR SION

The hill upon which religion has chosen to die is one of man's effort and personal improvement. Week after week, folks are told to "get right, or get left." They are told that their obedience to God's law is evidence of their salvation. They have proudly pitched their tent at the base of mount Sinai, all the while singing, I Shall Not Be Moved. They feel good about doing good and literally, nothing short of a move of God is going to change that.

The problem is, the most sincere obedience of the most humble, penitent religious grandma, who has worn out ten bibles in her lifetime and cried buckets of tears does not equal the righteousness required of God. While religion tells you to clean up the flesh, the word of God declares that "flesh and blood cannot inherit the Kingdom of God. (1 Corinthians 15:50) No one in history has ever been saved by their law keeping, though millions have tried. There is no life in the law; only condemnation.

Galatians 2:21 I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain.

The righteousness required by the justice of God is found only in the obedience unto death of the Lord Jesus Christ. It is only those to whom this righteousness is charged who are accepted in the beloved. They do not seek to embellish, improve, or complete his work in any way, at any time. To do so would only seek to mar his holiness with our own filth.

King David was a sinner by birth, by practice, and even by choice. He understood well the glorious truth of imputation, whereby God charges the sins of his sheep to a righteous substitute, while charging the righteousness of that substitute to his sheep.

Psalms 32:2 Blessed is the man unto whom the LORD imputeth not iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no guile.

Romans 4:6-8
Even as David also describeth the blessedness of the man, unto whom God imputeth righteousness without works,
Saying, Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered.
Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin.

Thanks be to God for delivering his sheep from dancing naked at the base of Sinai while worshipping the golden calf of their own works. He alone has brought them to Mount Sion and caused them to now and forever rest in the accomplished work and obedience unto death of the Lord Jesus Christ. He alone is their law keeping, he alone is their acceptance before God, he alone is The Lord Our Righteousness.

Hebrews 12:18-24
For ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest,
And the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which voice they that heard intreated that the word should not be spoken to them any more:
(For they could not endure that which was commanded, And if so much as a beast touch the mountain, it shall be stoned, or thrust through with a dart:
And so terrible was the sight, that Moses said, I exceedingly fear and quake:)
But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels,
To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect,
And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel.

- written by Kenny Dyess via his Facebook page