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Pursue Holiness: Fearful Judgment and the Heavenly Zion

Hebrews 12:14-29

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Chapter 12
14 Pursue peace with everyone, and the sanctification without which no one will see the Lord. 15 watching lest any fall short of the grace of God, lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you and through it many be defiled, 16 lest any fornicator or profane person like Esau, who exchanged his birthright for one meal. 17 For you know that even later, when he wanted to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he did not find a place of repentance, even though he sought it with tears. 18 For you have not approached a fire that can be touched and that burns, and thick darkness and gloom and storm. 19 and the trumpet's sound and the voice of words, from which those who heard begged that no word be added to them; 20 For they could not bear the one commanding: "Even if a beast touches the mountain, it shall be stoned." 21 And the sight was so terrible that Moses said, "I am terrified and trembling." 22 but you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to myriads of angels in a festal assembly. 23 and the church of the firstborn who have been registered in the heavens, and to God the judge of all, and to the spirits of the righteous who have been perfected, 24 and to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the better blood of sprinkling that speaks better than Abel. 25 See that you do not refuse the one speaking. For if those did not escape on earth when they refused the one who warned them, much more shall we not escape if we turn away from the one from the heavens. 26 whose voice shook the earth then, but now he has promised, saying: "Yet once, I will shake not only the earth but also the heaven." 27 And the "yet once" makes clear the removal of the things being shaken, as things having been made, so that the things not being shaken may remain. 28 Therefore, receiving an unshakeable kingdom, let us have grace, through which we may worship God in a way that pleases him, with reverence and fear. 29 for our God is also a consuming fire.