Sinai is a desert; a barren, desolate, inhospitable and largely lifeless place. How suitable that God should give the law in Sinai. It is the place of death and the killing letter. Here Moses received the Ten Commandments on two tables of stone. <\/p>\n
Today travellers to Mount Sinai reach the summit along a steep track of 3,750 so-called steps of penitence between two towering walls of solid rock. It is a fitting reminder of how Moses\u2019 two tablets of stone have, by design, shut out the light of grace and weighed down the poor convicted soul. Making it, says Paul \u201cthe ministration of death\u201d. <\/p>\n
How adamant the \u201ckilling letter\u201d of the law has proved to be by its relentless condemnation and its barren, fruitless \u201cyoke of bondage\u201d. There neither is, nor can be life or liberty for the Lord\u2019s spiritual people at Mount Sinai. Those who seek for life in Sinai\u2019s law are searching in \u201ca wilderness, a dry land, and a desert\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held\u201d. How comforted and blessed are those who come to Christ for life and liberty, cleansing and holiness. How satisfied and filled are those who know themselves to be \u201cnot under the law, but under grace\u201d.<\/p>\n
The law our rule of life? Never! Sinai is the way of death. Christ is the way of life for the believer and \u201cwhere the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty\u201d. \u201cStand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.\u201d<\/p>\n