Ye Are Come Unto Mount Zion
Brother Sparks emphasizes that as Christians, we have moved from the old system of divine activity, symbolized by Mount Sinai, to the new and glorious reality of Mount Zion. He explains that we are not come to a tangible, sensory-based system but to a spiritual, more real realm where God's presence and work are fully realized in Christ. The phrase "Ye are come" is present tense, indicating that believers are already in this spiritual Zion, not merely progressing toward it. Zion represents the culmination of God's work—His victory over death, sin, and the powers of darkness—embodied in Christ and His church. It is the symbol of divine victory, divine government, and divine fellowship, where heaven rules through the Holy Spirit. Brother Sparks stresses that Zion is a spiritual people, not a physical location, and that true fellowship and divine authority are found there. He also highlights Zion as the seat of divine government, where Christ reigns through the Spirit, and as the place of spiritual festivity and citizenship—believers' true homeland and royal inheritance. Ultimately, Zion signifies the fullness of God's purpose in Christ, a spiritual reality that believers are already part of, calling for faith and recognition of this divine truth in our daily lives.
Main Points Outline
- Transition from Sinai to Zion: from tangible, sensory religion to spiritual reality
- Present tense: believers are already in Zion, not just approaching it
- Zion as the culmination of God's work in Christ: victory over death and sin
- Zion as a spiritual people, not a physical place: true fellowship and divine government
- Christ as the foundation and embodiment of Zion: perfect work and victory
- Zion as the seat of divine authority and divine fellowship in heaven
- Believers' citizenship and royal inheritance in Zion
- Call for spiritual realization and living in the truth of being already in Zion
18 For ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest, 19 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: 20 (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: 21 And so terrible was the sight, that Moses said, I exceedingly fear and quake:) 22 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, 23 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, 24 And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel.
17 Thou shalt bring them in, and plant them in the mountain of thine inheritance, in the place, O LORD, which thou hast made for thee to dwell in, in the Sanctuary, O Lord, which thy hands have established.
18 And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
2 And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.
6 And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus:
