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The Holiest of All By Andrew Murray

This book illuminates the pages of the book of Hebrews. Andrew Murray's sermons and books have stood as spiritual standards for over a hundred years.

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CXXV.<br />

LET US GO FORTH, WITHOUT THE CAMP.<br />

XIII. 9. Be not carried away by divers and strange teachings<br />

: for it is good<br />

that the heart be stablished by grace not<br />

; by meats, wherein they that occupied<br />

themselves were not pr<strong>of</strong>ited.<br />

10. We have an altar, where<strong>of</strong> they have no right to eat, which serve<br />

the tabernacle.<br />

11. For the bodies <strong>of</strong> those beasts, whose body is brought into the holy<br />

place by the high priest as an <strong>of</strong>fering for sin, are burned without the camp.<br />

12. Wherefore Jesus also, that He might sanctify the people through his<br />

own blood, suffered without the gate.<br />

13. Let us therefore go forth unto him without the camp, bearing his<br />

reproach.<br />

14. For we have not here an abiding city, but we seek after the city which<br />

Is to come.<br />

AMONG the Hebrew Christians many still<br />

clung to the temple<br />

and its ritual. And there were among them teachers who<br />

inculcated obedience to the laws in regard to food and to eating<br />

<strong>of</strong> the sacrifices as necessary. <strong>The</strong> writer warns against these<br />

strange teachings. For it is good that the heart be stablished<br />

meats. No outward observances can sustain<br />

by grace, not by<br />

the inner life : it is by grace alone, grace<br />

throne <strong>of</strong> grace, that the heart must be established.<br />

that comes from the<br />

Let us have<br />

grace, we read, whereby we may <strong>of</strong>fer service well-pleasing to<br />

God. <strong>All</strong> that Christ has and gives and works in us by the<br />

Holy Spirit this is the grace by which the heart can be con<br />

firmed, and kept from falling.<br />

<strong>The</strong> Hebrew Christian might not think <strong>of</strong> returning to<br />

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