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Christian Code of Ethics - (Saint Paul's Final Words)

Number 9 – We have an altar, whereof they have no right to eat which serve the tabernacle. For the bodies of those beasts, whose blood is brought into the sanctuary by the high priest for sin, are burned without the camp. Wherefore Jesus also, that He might sanctify the people with His own blood, suffered without the gate. Let us go forth therefore unto him without the camp, bearing his reproach. For here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come (Hebrews 13:10-14).

Be separate from the law and world and be united to Jesus Christ. Among the Hebrew Christians at that time, many still clung to the temple and its ritual. There were teachers who indicated obedience to the law in regard to food and eating of the sacrifices as necessary. Paul warns against these practices. No outward observances can sustain the inner life, it is by grace alone, and grace is from God. Our New Testament altar is the cross. We now belong to Jesus, and fear not the rejection of those who reject Him.

The expression 'Without the camp" occurs three times and gives us our primary thought. We are forever to be included in the beloved and to seek our religion and its enjoyment both now and eternal which is external to this world. That can only be found in fellowship with Jesus. It is through Jesus that we are able to draw near unto God our Father.

Meditate upon these things; give thyself wholly to them; that thy profiting may appear to all (I Timothy 4:15).

Marinating in His Love - George Dillon
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