Prepare your heart for the Sermon by looking through these suggestions that will assist you in making the most of our time together hearing God's Word.

You will find suggestions for thinking more critically through the passage, meditating more intently on the text, and prayerfully seeking wisdom to deepen your understanding of the passage to be preached this Sunday.

Carefully Think

• Read Hebrews 12:18-24.
• There are seven items the author says they have not come to in verses 18-19. List them.
• Read Exodus 19:10-13. What would happen to anyone who touched Mount Sinai?
• According to v. 20, why did they beg no further word be spoken?
• With which mountain does the author contrast Mount Sinai in v. 22?
• Read Revelation 21:22-27. What are the characteristics of the “heavenly Jerusalem?”

Prayerfully Meditate

• What does it mean that the sight was “terrible” in v. 21?
• Read Deuteronomy 9:15-19. How does this OT passage explain why Moses was “terrified and trembling?”
• What is the identity of those “enrolled in heaven?” (Hint: look at Luke 10:20 and back at Revelation 21.)
• How does the mention of sprinkled blood connect back to what we’ve read in Hebrews previously? (Look at Hebrews 9:16-28)