Go On Up To The Mountain…
Mount Moriah was the place where Abraham took Isaac to offer him up as a sacrifice.
Mount Moriah was the place where Solomon built his temple to God. Mount Moriah was the place where Herod erected the temple that stood in Jesus’ day. Mount Moriah was the place where Jesus was crucified on Calvary.
Abraham called that place “God provides.”
Think of all the sacrifices offered up at that place. Think of the sacrifice halted by God on that mountain and then compare that to the final sacrifice that God allowed to happen there. “God provides.”
Moriah was the Mount of God and He revealed Himself both to Abraham and to us by His actions there.
Worship cannot happen without the shedding of blood. We have convinced ourselves that worship is about singing and praying and lifestyle…but in reality it is a bloody, gruesome process that takes away our sins. There is no worship without blood. It has been that way from the beginning and it remains so to this day.
Go on up to the mountain of mercy
To the crimson perpetual tide
Kneel down on the shore
Be thirsty no more
Go under and be purified
Follow Christ to the holy mountain
Sinner sorry and wrecked by the fall
Cleanse your heart and your soul
In the fountain that flowed
For you and for me and for all
At the wonderful, tragic, mysterious tree
On that beautiful, scandalous night you and me
We’re atoned by His blood and forever washed white
On that beautiful, scandalous night
On the hillside, you will be delivered
At the foot of the cross justified
And your spirit restored
By the river that poured
From our blessed Savior’s side
At the wonderful, tragic, mysterious tree
On that beautiful, scandalous night you and me
We’re atoned by His blood and forever washed white
On that beautiful, scandalous night
Go on up to the mountain of mercy
To the crimson perpetual tide
Kneel down on the shore
Be thirsty no more
Go under and be purified
