“Be Healed” (Heb 12:12-29)

“Therefore lift your drooping hands and strengthen your weak knees, and make straight paths for your feet, so that what is lame may not be put out of joint but rather be healed” (vs12-13)

The Lord Jesus Christ is the Savior of sinners, and He tells us, “Be healed”. We are chastened rightfully and our sin is exposed, but it isn't to make us quit the race. He says, “lift your drooping hands and strengthen your weak knees, and make straight paths for your feet, so that what is lame may not be put out of joint but rather be healed”. We are to be encouraged, not discouraged, receiving grace to meet our needs. Don't got the way of Esau, “who for one morsel of food sold his birthright. For you know that afterward,when he wanted to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no place for repentance, though he sought it diligently with tears (vs17).” It will be TOO LATE for many who've heard Christ in the gospel. Every opportunity was given, the entreaties were real, and God WOULD have saved them, but they would not, turned back in the day of battle, and they must eternally perish REGRETTING eternal life rejected.

This fate is not ours, because we have not come to a God who rejects us (vs18-24). We haven't come to the legal terrors of Sinai, where God quaked, “And so terrifying was the sight that Moses said, I am exceedingly afraid and trembling”.

We haven't come to be judged upon what we deserve, but what the Lord Jesus earned to give. We don't stand in our performance, for that would be death, judgment, and rejection. We come to God by what Jesus did, and we're received all the way to heaven, before the throne, among the angels and saints perfected. Spiritual worship is in new covenant grace earned by the death of Jesus, the mediator of every blessing.

Don't reject Him (vs25-29). God spoke from Mt Sinai, and the earth quaked. He shall soon shake the heavens and the earth, coming back to destroy this world, and to establish the new heavens, where Christ's followers dwell alone. You and I would be foolish to resist the gospel message. Many say, “Will God receive me?” God says, “See that you do not refuse Him who speaks”, so that the burden is not on God to be willing: He proves that in the Son, saying “Come”, “be healed”, and “do not refuse”. Instead, you and I are to heed the call, trust His grace to change us into obedient people, and love others. We're to walk in holiness and shamefaced reverence.

We, like the Son, serve the Lord in fear and rejoice in trembling. He says, “For our God is a consuming fire” (vs29).