Holiest of All by Andrew Murray

Zbc Iboliest of BU 529
CXXV.
LET US GO FORTH, WITHOUT THE CAMP.
XIII.— 9. Be not carried away by divers and strange teachings : for It is good
that the heart be stablished by grace ; not by meats, wherein they that occupied
themselves were not profited.
10. We have an altar, whereof they have no right to eat, which serve
the tabernacle.
11. For the bodies of those beasts, whose body is brought into the holy
place by the high priest as an offering for stn, are burned without the camp.
12. Wherefore Jesus also, that He might sanctify the people through his
own blood, suffered without the gate.
13. Let us therefore go forth unto him without the camp, bearing his
reproach.
14. For we have not here an abiding city, but we seek after the city which
is to come.
Among the Hebrew Christians many still clung to the temple
and its ritual. And there were among them teachers who
inculcated obedience to the laws in regard to food and to eating
of the sacrifices as necessary. The writer warns against these
strange teachings.
For it is good that the heart be stablished
by grace, not by meats. No outward observances can sustain
the inner life : it is by grace alone, grace that comes from the
throne of grace, that the heart must be established.
Let us have
grace, we read, whereby we may offer service well-pleasing to
God. All that Christ has and gives and works in us by the
Holy Spirit—this is the grace by which the heart can be confirmed,
and kept from falling.
The Hebrew Christian might not think of returning to
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