Come to Calvary's Holy Mountain
Click here for an audio version "The Crucifixion with the Converted Centurion" by Lucas Cranach the Elder Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. Our hymn of the day invites us to “Come to Calvary’s Holy Mountain,” and we shall a little later in this sermon. But in order to truly appreciate Mount Calvary, we must first travel to two other holy mountains—Mount Sinai and Mount Zion, for without knowledge and experience of those two other mountains it is difficult, if not impossible, to know and understand Mount Calvary. It is about 1446 B.C., the third new moon after the people of Israel had gone out of the land of Egypt. The Lord God has led His people to safety through the Red Sea. Pharaoh and his army have been wiped out by the collapsing walls of the sea. The Lord provides bread from heaven and water from the rock. By pillar of cloud and fire, He leads the people to the foot of Mount Sinai, a la...