Worship in Joy-Filled Fear - a podcast by Redeemer Church of al Ain

from 2020-07-24T05:00

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Welcome
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Thanks for tuning into Redeemer Al Ain’s online service. Our church is currently meeting in person with restrictions on Thursdays from 6:30–7:30pm at the Al Ain Evangelical Church Centre. (For more information about the restrictions click here). As pastors, we also understand that different people have different circumstances and comfort levels for in-person gatherings. We do not want to pressure anyone to attend who would not feel comfortable. We will continue to post the service online so that people can participate digitally. 

In this service, we’re continuing our study through the book of Hebrews. Pastor John Norris is preaching on Hebrews 12:18–29, Worship in Joy-Filled Fear.




July 24 Online Service
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Worship Through Singing
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Jesus My Only Hope – Sovereign Grace Music

The Power of the Cross – Keith & Kristyn Getty

Bible Reading
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18 For you have not come to what may be touched, a blazing fire and darkness and gloom and a tempest 19 and the sound of a trumpet and a voice whose words made the hearers beg that no further messages be spoken to them. 20 For they could not endure the order that was given, “If even a beast touches the mountain, it shall be stoned.” 21 Indeed, so terrifying was the sight that Moses said, “I tremble with fear.” 22 But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable angels in festal gathering, 23 and to the assembly of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, and to God, the judge of all, and to the spirits of the righteous made perfect, 24 and to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks a better word than the blood of Abel.

25 See that you do not refuse him who is speaking. For if they did not escape when they refused him who warned them on earth, much less will we escape if we reject him who warns from heaven. 26 At that time his voice shook the earth, but now he has promised, “Yet once more I will shake not only the earth but also the heavens.” 27 This phrase, “Yet once more,” indicates the removal of things that are shaken—that is, things that have been made—in order that the things that cannot be shaken may remain. 28 Therefore let us be grateful for receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, and thus let us offer to God acceptable worship, with reverence and awe, 29 for our God is a consuming fire.

Hebrews 12:18–29

Sermon
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Worship in Joy-Filled Fear
John Norris




Study Questions

  1. What are the differences between Mount Sinai in verses 18–21 and Mount Zion in verses 22–24?

  2. Why does the author of Hebrews compare these two mountains?

  3. What does it mean that Jesus’ blood speaks a better word than the blood of Abel (vs. 24)?

  4. What does the author mean by “things that are shaken” in verse 27?

  5. Why does God being “a consuming fire” make Christians worship “with reverence and awe” (vs. 29)?




 

Song Credits

Jesus My Only Hope
Music and words by Mark Altrogge. © 2002 Sovereign Grace Praise (BMI). Sovereign Grace Music, a division of Sovereign Grace Churches. All rights reserved. Administrated worldwide at www.CapitolCMGPublishing.com, excluding the UK which is adm. by Integrity Music, part of the David C Cook family. www.SovereignGraceMusic.org

The Power of the Cross
Words and Music by Keith Getty and Stuart Townend
© 2005 ThankYou Music/Adm. by worshiptogether.com songs

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