The Holiest of All By Andrew Murray

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fellowship with the old We sacrifices. have an altar, whereof
they have no right to eat, which serve the tabernacle. Our
altar is the cross : the Levitical priesthood does not share in what
it gives the old and the new
; worship are utterly different The
old priesthood has no part in the sacrifice of the cross : the new
worship no part in the old sacrifices. What is more, even the
of which the blood was brought into the Holy
sin-offering,
Place by the High Priest, was not eaten, but burnt without
the camp. It is not a question of eating, but of understanding
what it means, the burning of the body without the camp. This
we shall see in Jesus. The sin-offering, if
you understand it
aright, leads you to separation and rejection. Wherefore Jesus,
that He might sanctify the people through His own blood,
suffered without the gate. He was cast out of the city, as
one who was indeed made sin for us. Let us therefore go
We
forth unto Him without the camp, bearing His reproach.
now belong to Jesus, and fear not the rejection of those who
rejected Him.
For we have not here an abiding city, but we
seek after the city which is to come.
Without the camp. This expression,
which occurs three
times, gives us the chief thought We are ever inclined to seek
our religion and its
enjoyment in something
external. And it
is
only to be found in fellowship with Jesus. His death is not
only an atonement for our sins it is that, praise God ! but
only as an entrance into what is a great
deal more and better.
It is the way and the power, a living way of fellowship with
Him, so that like Him we come to God in the path of selfsacrifice
and separation from the world and death to sin. His
death and life work in us as the power that makes us ready and
able, even like Him, to go without the gate, to be crucified to the
world, bearing his reproach.