This message takes us back to Mount Sinai, where God established a blood covenant with Israel and showed that worship and covenant are inseparable—worship leads to obedience, obedience brings us into God’s presence, and His presence draws us into deeper worship. Though the Israelites eagerly promised to obey, they quickly broke covenant, just as we often do, which is why God always intended to fulfill both sides of the agreement Himself through Jesus Christ, whose shed blood is the ultimate sacrifice that the Sinai covenant foreshadowed. Now, instead of striving to earn God’s favor through perfect obedience, we respond to His love with grateful hearts, empowered by the Holy Spirit who writes His law on our hearts—and we must ask what small obstructions in our lives are keeping us from burning brightly for Him.