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April 13th, verse 10.
We have an owner where they have no right to need the service, one of the bodies of those nations, but is brought in the sanctuary by the High Priestess, here a burden of cat. Wherefore Jesus also that he might sacrifice the people with the gold club, water without the peace.
Let us go to our timber hunting him without the chance, Barry.
We're here having no continuous study with these big water cars. I have car format as well from the sacrifice and praise God continually that is the truth of our lives, giving thanks to His name.
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What did you go to the community that happened? What was such sacrifice wrong as well as we obey them and have a rule of submit themselves?
Or they want to be installed to say that was given to the account.
But when they do it with joy and not with grace, but that is unprofitable to do.
Braver on the front, we have a good conscience that all things willing to live honestly.
But I'm a teacher that rather to do this than I may be restored to you.
How they go with me, they brought again to the dead our Lord Jesus, thy grace and effort, and sheep, through the **** of the everlasting covenant.
Make your perfect and every number of you.
I won't see you through all of them as a rule over you and all the things they have Italy.
Gracie with you all in manner.
I have a word that I like to pay before we begin our reach.
And my efforts this morning.
Bring out the true humanity of Christ.
I use the word Greek.
Our word.
Leave no strong force in the mind of any here it is true the Lord.
Was a real man.
He was born in this world.
He was made the hope when he was behind his mother's depressed.
He had threw up in favor with God and then.
I'm sure he was right here.
You have to be careful and that connection can't sleep here. Alright, that just turned the last one as there have been.
All Starbucks cuts down aversion blocking one.
And.
The 15th verse of Colossians 1.
It says who is the image of the invisible God, The first born of every creature. Now that should reserve the first born of all creation.
How the enemy has seized that translation to teach that Christ is destiny thrown an Angel.
And at some time in the past, In the past.
He was created as every other.
Being have been created but that is false.
And if we get the meaning of what is stated here?
In this 15th verse of Colossians 1.
The first born of all creation and remember the love of Saints. That first born is a title.
We get in the 81St Psalm.
Speaking of David, where it says I will make him the first, my first born higher than the kings of the earth.
All the fact is that David was the 8th son of Jesse and yet he was made the first born, showing that first born is a title and has nothing to do with time when used in that way.
So when it speaks of Christ, the first born of all creation.
Is first born in preeminence.
And there is this stated, that when he entered his own creation, for he was the creator of all things. All things were made by Him and for Him.
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There was only one plate that he could take in that creation, and that was the first place.
And preeminence, so I trust that is I conveyed any wrong thought that I have.
That I have corrected it, and we need to remember this, beloved. And I speak best for myself. I trust and praise that I may never become a flock. We read in Proverbs an old and foolish king who will not be admonished.
None of us are too old not to need admonishing at times, and I believe that our reading meetings are of great value because things in a reading meeting can be corrected that cannot be corrected elsewhere. I didn't make this little give this little word to divert in any way from our subject in the 13th of Hebrews.
Well, we covered that subject and the brothers who brought out about the.
The the, the large place against creation was very good and I do not feel we need to go farther into that, so if we could continue right where we left off.
I believe at the end of the tenth verse.
A large chapter.
And I just say in that connection.
That we have two portions in Scripture that particularly in the New Testament that particularly set before us.
The personal glories of the Lord Jesus.
In John he's the one who is the author of life, and there we have that which takes us back the furthest, I suppose, connection with the person of Christ we have. But in the first chapter of Hebrews it's very important to notice.
Three personal glories that we have of His person, His first seen as the Son, the Son of God.
And then he's seen as God. Thy throne, O God, is forever and ever. Then he's seen as Jehovah, that is the one known in relationship to his people, but first of all as the Creator, so before the Jews who had been used to.
Traditions have been used to outward.
Displays of of a religious character. Before they can give these things up, they have to be assured of something that's solid that their souls can rest on. And so the Apostle Paul or whoever it was that wrote this, we suppose it was Paul. He gives the solid foundations first of the personal glories of the Lord Jesus.
And also bringing in His word, having made purgation of sins so that not only the Jew but each one of us can rest our souls upon what we have in the first chapter of Hebrews, we can be assured that the one we're trusting in, the one that we call our Savior, is none other but the eternal Son of God. He has God Himself. He is the Jehovah of the Old Testament. He is the Creator.
And as we said this morning, he is the same. That's his name. So before anything is taken up of his offices in Hebrews, his priesthood, or anything else, we have the person and the work of Christ to establish us. So there's no question as to who He is.
For the party of those beasts who in blood has brought into the sanctuary by the high Priest for sin.
Are burned without him.
You'll find that in connection with the Great Day of Atonement.
The priest carried the blood of the offering and of the Holy of Holies bringle them before and on the throne.
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While he was sprinkling that blood.
The body, alert to the beast was being burned outside the camp.
And the Apostle is using that as a fifth gear of the Lord. Having gone up to the Father, he presented all the infinite value of His precious blood there.
But what is our place?
Now that he is on high.
And we're down here.
Well, that is marked out by the police.
Where the sacrifices burned without the camp. So he carried it on further in this passage.
Wherefore, Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people with his own blood, suffered without the gate. That is, Jerusalem was the Center for the religion of the Jews.
He had a magnificent temple.
A great altar and there were wonderful ceremonies and offerings, priesthood, all that went without religious first.
Well, when we think of the Blessed Lord.
Taking his cross, Going outside of that city of Salem, that is.
A nail to the cursive tree. Then we learn that our place is outside.
Of all that man could look upon and value in connection with religion, I think I heard you, Brother Halo, make some remarks about the time you were in Jerusalem. Would you just give us your feelings when you look down? Perhaps the street where the Lord bore His cross?
Well, it was quite different to that which I had expected. I suppose I'm not the only one who had always looked forward to the privilege of visiting in that lab, however.
When I arrived there, those feelings quickly faded and I went up to the top of Mount Zion and looked down over the city and.
Has since filled my soul of the awful guilt of that city in having spit in the face of the Lord Jesus Christ, never having repented of that which they had done and.
I suppose that which added to my feeling was the fact that I had been gone from home at that time about two months, and everywhere I had visited I had been met with loving welcome by the Lord's beloved people. But here I had come to the land where the Lord Jesus Christ himself was born and lived, and I couldn't find one soul that loved the Savior.
And I must admit, I felt so.
Alone and so sad on the top of Mount Zion that.
The tears filled my eyes with the memory of what that nation had done to the Lord Jesus, and that the thought also that which was to befall that nation.
We know the Scripture says that from one end of the land to the other it will be stained with the blood of that guilty people. I must admit it was just not too long after the.
Or was it just before? It was just before the assassination of President Kennedy, I believe, and when I heard of his assassination.
I thought of this parallel, shall I say.
I thought of Mrs. Kennedy being invited to come and spend her vacation in Dallas, TX. I hope I'm not saying anything I shouldn't hear, but the folks of that city making it very plain to her that they had not repented, that they had all joined in this act that they had done to her husband, but that she was perfect.
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Welcome to come and spend her vacation in Dallas, TX. I would think she'd feel very out of place. Well, brethren, I felt the same I felt.
A sense of being outside of the whole thing. And I believe that those of us who know the precious Savior and know what this world did to him, the religious world, and they have not changed their mind. They have not apologized. And even today, if we take the precious word of God into the midst of the religious systems of men.
We find that they don't want it. They like to pick out from it that which perhaps will fit in with a few thoughts of their own. But the word of God, with its wondrous message, presenting to us a rejected Savior, is still, I fear, unwanted in the camp of religious Christians of the day.
There was something that made interest in relation to these offerings. It may be a little deviation from our chapter. Here we have the bodies of those beasts whose blood is brought into the sanctuary by the High Priest for sin, are burned without the can, in addition to the Day of Atonement. The sin offering of the High Priest failed, and in the case where the whole nation failed.
That's in the 4th chapter of Leviticus. That blood was also brought into the sanctuary, and the bodies of those beasts were also burned without the camp. But the point I have in mind is this, that none of those sin offerings where the blood was carried into the sanctuary could the priest feed on. They could eat of a sacrifice for sin, for a ruler, or for one of the common people where the blood was not carried into the sanctuary.
But was put upon the horns of the brazen altar, and the other case was put upon the horns of the golden author of incense. And I believe that brings the forest a very solemn thing, those sacrifices that bring in the fact that Christ was forsaken of God, having suffered without the gate, but with his blood entering into the most holy of all, no priest can enter into now if my brother sins, or if I sin.
My brother should be able to eat the sin offering on my behalf, But no priest could eat the sin offering where the blood was carried into the sanctuary and where the bodies were burned outside, telling us that only Christ himself and God the Father could enter into that. It was a question of atonement. And so we see two things linked together here. The blood carried into the very sanctuary, bringing us in there within the veil, and the bodies burned without the camp.
Putting us in the place outside the camp. But just another thought for meditation. The skin of the sin offering was burned up. The skin of the buried offering was not buried off. And I'm glad that the skin of the sin offering was burnt up, because that tells me this their sins and iniquities will I remember no more. But when a priest offered the burnt offering, he who offered the burnt offering?
Was given the skin of the animal as a memorial of that work, and I like to look at it in this light. The priest who offered the sacrifice is Christ himself, and he ever has before him the memory and rejoicing in that work in which he glorified God so fully. But the skin of the sin offering that was burnt up, the skin of the burnt offering, remained as a memorial to the priest who offered.
How accurate the scripture is but here.
If the sin offering those sin offerings that carry us by the value of the blood into the sanctuary, and because of the place where the bodies were burned, putting us outside the camp in the place that he was there, not to that degree of course.
Touching is that the subject of sex occasion has looked at in different ways in the 10th chapter by his own will.
Where he looked out and sanctified, but in this place in connection with our separation from.
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The whole religious system of this world.
We're reminded of the blood of Christ.
That tells us here wherefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people with his own blood.
Our beloved. That should be a deep exercise to our souls.
Are we in any way disregarding?
The preciousness of the blood of Christ not only.
And the way it has cleansed us from all our sins.
Brought us nigh to God, but from the whole of this world's religious system or this world has its religion and its religious system?
That.
Aware to be separated from. But think of the cost that separates us from everything that man has set up.
As a religion in this world.
You say that that sanctification is setting apart.
His brother throat surely is so we're set apart. It's in a special way here, aren't we? That's the way you look at it. By the roses. Give us some thoughts on that.
Well, we know that.
Here we have sanctification.
By his blood was set apart by his blood.
As belonging to him here in this passage. But then there is such a thing as practical sanctification. I suppose we turn to the 17th of John a moment.
I believe the 17th of John will not only show us the truth, as the practical sanctification will also set aside the false thought that sanctification is the burning out of the old nature, the burning out of sin. Some luck upon that is something to be attained to that that only sanctified with all the sinful nature is burned out the 17th of John.
Let us go down first of all to the Lord himself in the 19th verse.
And for their sakes, I sanctify myself.
That they also might be sanctified through the truth. Now here we find the Lord Jesus setting himself apart upon high, so that we down here might be sanctified or set apart by the truth. Go back to verse 17, verse 16. Rather, they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
Sanctify them through Thy truth. My word is truth. That is, the Lord lets us know in the 16th verse that we do not belong to the course and order of things here below, but we've got to go through it. But while we're going through it, He shows the provision made that we are sanctified through God's truth, and we're not taken up with what we see around.
We judge it by the word of God. So the Lord Jesus is up on high now, and His presence there is the measure of our positional sanctification. But our state and condition down here is connected with sanctification through the truth, the application of the Word of God to my walk and to my ways. So we start out with sanctification with through the blood. But now the Lord wants us sanctified and set apart.
In a practical way.
What is the camp?
What would you say, Brother Anderson is the camp?
Will I take the camp to be that which answers to what the campus is as it's referred to here, the Camp of Judaism.
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And the Camp of Judaism.
Included all those things that the professed Jewish Christians were occupied with.
And all that Christ has taken the place of, and instead of being occupied with Christ.
They were occupied with those things that pointed forward to Christ.
They were going back to the old order of things of Judaism. That is, they had the Tabernacle or the temple and all that was in it. And they had their, their rogue priests. They had their choirs and musical instruments, their altars and all of that. And that's what they were going back to.
To be occupied with.
An earthly order of things. Not a heavenly order of things, but an earthly order of things.
And so we find in Christendom today.
Much that corresponds to all of that that they had in Judaism. And we speak of Christianity generally so as being Judaized today, we have in this world a Judaized Christianity.
Something that answers to the camp, and really we can call it the camp because it corresponds so much to the camp that we read about in Scripture.
Would you say that the 9th of Hebrews gives us that in that principle the 9th of Hebrews and verse one?
It says then, verily the first covenant had also ordinances.
Of Divine Service and a Worldly Sanctuary. Well, there are two things right there that mark the camp. A worldly sanctuary. A sanctified building. A building is considered sacred. And then there's a whole order of ritual ordinances of divine service. Now we go down further and verse 6.
Now with these things, with us ordained, the priests went always into the first Cabernet. Our brothers mentioned this.
In Judaism, there was a separate class of priests. In Christianity, every believer is a priest. But the system that's been built up in the camp denies this because now only a certain class of manna priests. So we've got these these three marks at least of the camp. Another mark that's not mentioned right here, The camp had its music, they had that trumpets, they had their incense.
All these things were part of the religious camp of Israel, which originally had God's approval. Now God disowns Judaism and the whole system. So men turn around at Christianity and take some of that and set it up again and want us want it to be accepted. Go on to set the whole thing aside. So the main points of the camp are divine service, a ritual, A worldly sanctuary.
A priestly class burning of incense, robes, music, all these things that connected with the camp. There were things that.
Appealed to the natural senses of man. That word worldly or sanctuary, should read earthly sanctuary. It was earthly, that which could be seen, that which could be touched, that which there would appeal to the census, the natural senses of man. But what do we have now? That which is enjoyed by the spirit and in the power of the spirit of God? We have something spiritual. We have the Lord Jesus Christ. We don't see him.
We can't touch you. It's a matter of faith. It's something spiritual, and we enjoy the Lord Jesus Christ by the Spirit by faith, and we see him by faith. And this makes a great difference between an earthly religion and the heavenly or spiritual religion. I use the word religion because it's connected with that which.
Man takes up with.
As being the center of his attraction, they that which he makes the center of his worship. Well, what is it? Is it that which appeals to the census? Or is it Christ himself who is now in the glory?
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But Hebrews is a good book to clear us from all that which belongs to an earthly religion. By nature it isn't just the Jew, but most of us have been brought up in.
Different forms.
That.
Have that character, that is, they were borrowed from the Jewish system.
In fact, there was a book written called Christianity, the continuation of Judaism. Well, that's what we have. That's what we're in the midst of. So I believe the book of Hebrews is a very timely book for us today because it replaces everything with Christ, takes it all away. There's nothing left but the senses in a religious way. The the natural man has no place.
Senses have no place.
Saying it's all belongs to a heavenly order of things, and the priest is in heaven, it's not on earth.
The the blood has been shed and it's had its approval up there and we're we're accepted also I think we noticed in Hebrew something very personal.
Here's the blood of Jesus.
I think with only one exception in Hebrews, that blood of Christ.
Corinthians. It's the blood of Christ, But here it has to do with his person and his work. It's very personal. I believe it's important to see that we see here a person, not something that's hazy, something that we we just did a religious way grasp, because it's religious. But the spirit of God has put before us a person in Hebrews.
I want the one who came actually and shed his blood.
The one who laid his body down as a sacrifice, The one who himself has gone in as a man into the heavens. He's made purgation of sins, and now he's seated as a man at the right hand of God. Another thing we notice in Hebrews that's very helpful, and that is we have the eternal, lasting benefits of this work.
It's it's that which is permanent.
It's something that our souls can rest entirely upon.
A permanent its eternal salvation.
Its eternal inheritance.
And a very solemn thing for those who this afternoon may be here, who are not saved till the Lord come. It's eternal judgment. I know how solemn that is. And we would warn you in the light of this book, in this last chapter, that eternal judgment awaits those who have rejected the Lord Jesus Christ as their Savior, but an eternal inheritance at the end of the path of the desert.
An eternal inheritance to the rest that remains for the people of God is your portion. If you receive Christ this afternoon as you're safe.
We walked by faith, not by sight.
And I'm thinking about the time that the.
Table was spread in Ghana.
On that day.
There were just a few of us sitting around that table. There were two of the native brothers that were received that day.
That was quite a group sitting back.
They were observing.
They had come from various denominations, and.
Church organizations and so on. And they were sitting back to observe.
There were some of them that never showed up again.
There wasn't enough there for them to see. It was too simple.
Just a table with a loaf and a cup on it and a box for the offering and just sitting around quietly around that table and one after another taking part.
There wasn't much of anything to see there. There wasn't anything for the census.
There wasn't anything like they were used to where they came from.
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And so they didn't come again, they had no use for this. And there were quite a number who came to the meetings, the reading meetings, the gospel meetings and so on, even to the lectures on the chart.
But one after another, they would drop out. Few others would come and they would drop out. There just wasn't enough.
For them to see they didn't want that, it was too different from what they had been used to in the camp.
I remember being in a small meeting quite some time ago.
And at this particular place, they had just acquired a new meeting room.
And on Thursday morning.
When it came to the remembrance of the Lord, the man came in there.
He's been very businesslike, prepared with a neighbor, he said. What's the name of this place?
Well.
Tried to tell the man that they couldn't understand what it was to be gathered to the name of the Lord Jesus. We have no other name. If you don't hand me that stuff, what's your name?
And he would not accept the fact that we had no name.
Of the Lord Jesus Christ.
But the Lord Jesus is outside of it all, and we're going to be where he is. We're going to have to go outside the camp.
That's where he is.
And to be there is going to be a reproach like our Lord himself suffered shame outside the camp. We look at a verse in Matthew 14 just for a moment.
I know this is just a little picture, but I think it will illustrate what we have here.
We find in the 22nd verse that the disciples are in the ship, are invited to the ship, constrained into the ship, now the Lord but in the.
25th verse we have a new thing we have in the 4th watch of the night which would be a gentile watch which would indicate no doubt the the church.
In a very special way, in its true calling and the 4th watch of the night, Jesus went unto them walking on the sea. Now this is a path that the that nature cannot walk in nature. It's impossible for nature to walk on the sea.
But the Lord Jesus came walking on the sea.
And when the disciples saw him walking in the sea, they were trouble saying it is a spirit, and they cried out for fear.
But straightway Jesus spake unto them, saying, But be of good cheer it is I be not afraid. Peter answered him, and said, Lord, if it be thou bid me cometh of thee on the water. And he said, Come, and when Peter was come down.
Out of the ship, he walked on the water to go to Jesus.
Well, here we have Peter leaving.
That fixed order of things, the ship.
In order to walk in the water, he has to let go entirely to the ship. Now the purpose that he does this is to go to Jesus.
Well, that's like we have in our verse. Let us go forth unto him.
Without the camp.
Bearing his reproach.
Now nature can't walk in this path. Peter did, but not in nature. And it's a picture, I believe, of those who.
The Spirit of God has called out to be identified with the Lord Jesus in this outside place that nature cannot walk in. Be associated with him, but it's unto Him, And if their purpose is not to go to Jesus, it will fail.
If it's just a matter of taking a position, it will fail because nature can't walk in it. But where the purpose is right, Where the heart is right.
Christ is the object and it's an obedience to his command. Why then the one who formerly could only walk in natures path, now can walk in a path that the spirit of God bears him up in? I noticed the testimony it says here.
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Be of good cheer. I suggest this to be the Lord's coming.
It is I, the gathering point.
And then be not afraid. Peter needed that last exhortation because he began to sink when he got his eyes off of Christ. And so it is for us.
Not only do we have Christ as the object.
In order to be in such a position, but we have to maintain this or we're going to fall.
Now it's true, the Lord will sustain those whose hearts are right towards him, and he'll reach out and put his arm around them so they won't fall. But we still have this exhortation. Be not afraid.
I don't have Lynn Warren, Clare Monroe to give.
Pardon. That is called for. Therefore unto him there are those that see the wrong and Christendom things that we've been speaking about.
That are adapted to man in the place music and beautiful buildings, grand cathedral wires and all that kind of thing with Christ left out. There are those that feel that and see that strong and they just get outside.
But if that is all, it's not the guidance of the Spirit of God. Let us go forth. Therefore unto him we have the person of Christ himself before us, by then all the camp systems of men.
Are something that we have left behind. I know, dear brother Engweather, Bloomington, IL, I said that he was asked to. He'd like to remember the Lord.
Yes.
And he was happy to remember the Lord. But he said, one day he discovered this. The Lord says there are in the midst of them, he said. When I found that I was in the place where the blessed Lord Himself was in the midst, he said, that made him how entirely different matters.
Never wanted to leave that fling, because he found he was in the place where the Lord himself was in the midst. He found on every reproach and everyone that's consistent in going on in that place where the Lord has put his name to find reproach.
The only safe place on earth where we can bring our children and where we have the assurance.
From the word of God, thou in thy house there is no other place, and God has given us this place and preserved it up until now. Well, we have this exercise then, and the responsibility in connection with what has been committed to us in regard to this place. And that is the walk that becomes the believer in such a position.
That rejected this application.
They refused to be called at the camp.
On the grounds that they've received Christ and promote his interest.
And did not crucify Him. Judaism crucified Christ, and Christendom has not crucified Him. Therefore the reason that we are not the guest.
But if it applies to this situation only here.
The verse would have no voice to us in our day.
And if they wanted to keep it on that basis, they'd have to go all the way back to the wilderness.
And would be a matter of tents and States and ropes and states.
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You might have something that would be a clue to this.
And Peter's resistance to the Lord.
As he said before his disciples, the necessity of his death.
In Matthew 16.
The Lord rebuked him.
And said to it.
Thou savoured not the things that be of God.
For those that be of man.
And it's that nature of things that we have in the camp.
And if we ask someone.
It's not under the full sound and truth of the word. Are you saved?
They say. I hope so.
That order of things prevails in the camp.
And there's no sense of eternal security.
They're resting on that order of things that man enjoys according to the flesh.
When we add to that productivity, the next verse.
But you didn't read then that Jesus, under the side of any man, would come happily let him deny himself and take up his cross and throw away, I think.
Many times we get the wrong impression of what the cross is, something we have to bear, but I believe the cross of the Lord spoke of it. Here is reproach.
Breakfast across will be taking up that with approach connected with the Lord Jesus himself and to follow him.
And we can't follow him if we join you. Associate ourselves with beverages from the campus. Remember hearing from the Guilford Christensen Woodbridge telling an incident of two men. They were both converted and they went to school together. They were both converted and as time went on.
Became a minister in one of the churches. The other one was gathered to the Lord's name outside the camp. And there's a long while they met each other, both happy that the other was saved. And finally the ministry, after finding out about where this other man met, he says, well, what have you gotten that we haven't got? And then the other man just looked at him and said reproach, reproach.
So in the camp you don't have to reproach. I've often thought of it like this. It's if someone asks you what church you belong to and you can answer such and such a denomination or such and such a name. There's no recroach connected with that because it has a standing in the community. Yes, you go to that one. I go to this one. And so the very fact that we have no name but the name of Christ, that in itself gives reproach that you have no name to identify yourself now.
If we say we're Plymouth Brethren, the reproach is gone. It's gone because we now we've got a name and a standing in the community. We are not climate president unless we come from Plymouth and we are all brethren in Christ by faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. And I've seen dear Saints of God try to escape perhaps the difficulty in explaining the position by using that term, President. Let's not take a sectarian name, a name that was saddled on the gathered, faint by outsiders.
As I said again, the only Clement present will be those who come from planet. Otherwise, whatever town we come from, the Brethren in that town, we have no such name. Now the United States government, in its book, published Religious Bodies in the United States, a three volume series, lists the gathered Saints in there as Plymouth Brethren #5.
But Brother Gill, who wrote the article as to our what we hold and believe?
Clearly this owns the name, though. He owned the right of the United States government for its own purpose to put a label on us for their sake, but that we do not own this label. It's their label. It's not what we hold. I just mentioned that as a point of interest, for we have no name. But the precious name of Christ is the Gathering center. Brother Larson was preaching in Arkansas.
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And there was an intelligent Christian up to a certain point, trying to find out who Brother Larson was.
Do you want to know his connection?
And after a time it seemed to dawn on the man and he said, I know you are, you are Plymouth brother, brother, Larson says. I'm an Iowa brother. Aren't you an Arkansas brother?
His name shall be in their forehead. I love that verse. There's a day coming when his name and no other name will be implanted forever on the forehead of every child of God. I hope we're looking forward to that, anticipating the joy of it. And I've asked the thought of reading that verse, will there be, by the grace of God, a little added joy when that name is placed upon our forehead.
To be able to say in our heart this is the name I bore.
While I was still where he was rejected. This is the name I bore when I knew that it would bring reproach. I hope this is said with humility, but I do believe it will be a loss that can never be regained if I'm there in the glory. That name is placed upon a forehead and some other name has to be removed in order to have inflation. They're just to think.
That of Yonder in the glory. The name that was magnified here has to be left behind in order to his name might be put there. Oh, there is reproach, that's true, But what a joy. I believe the distinction here is so.
Challenging and yet so attractive. Let us go forth therefore unto him without the camp that's somehow settled what the camp is.
We go forth unto him, If we wish to bear the name of the Lord Jesus Christ alone, if we wish to walk according to the instruction that he gives us in this precious word, that's where we'll find ourselves. I feel perhaps when this side of thing is being emphasized, that it might be well to remark that.
There are those who have deep affection for the Lord and great devotedness and are sowing the good seed of the Word. The Lord is using it in blessing in His sovereignty.
Who are still in the camp, And I don't believe that what we have said is intended for one moment to speak in any way as though we despise such activities. I believe we are called upon through the word of God, to rejoice in the privilege put before us of being found, gathered to the precious name of the Lord Jesus, bearing his name alone outside the camp.
But perhaps somewhat with the attitude of Moses.
When the news was brought to him, the ill dad and me dad were prophesying in the camp. He said would God, all the Lords servants were prophets and he left it at that. He didn't go over there to see how they were getting along and lend his support to it, nor did he stand afar off and find a lot of fault with it either. I believe he occupied that place with profound Thanksgiving and those who wanted to walk in obedience shared it with him.
Lay the picture here also is one of a.
Tabernacle. Not a temple. That is, it's a temporary thing in the wilderness. And that that the next verse now gives us the thought we don't have here. An abiding city. Nothing here abiding.
Even what we have.
In a religious way, should we put it?
We're looking on to the city.
It's the rest that remains for the people of God. In Hebrew. It's the inheritance, It's really Christ that we're looking on to in the abiding city at the end of the road. And so we're seen here as pilgrims all the way through, not in the temple, not in the Kingdom in the sense that David was there, but in the wilderness, in a Tabernacle that's all temporary until that permanent city comes in view.
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So here we have no abiding.
Place, but we're looking on to the city that's to come, so we have hope.
Spoke of Hebrews, made the apostle meet the faith up to this point.
You mentioned brother.
Mundine How he substitutes the Blessed Lord for every person of renown in the Old Testament.
Their Tabernacle as well their sacrifice.
He takes the place of.
Moses. He takes place of Aaron. He takes the place of Joshua.
And everything gives place to the person of Christ himself.
Is then preparing them for a final step. He's kept Christ so constantly before their souls, and when he gets to the last chapter, just as always as well. Now, brethren, let's leave all this behind and go forth unto him.
You're imagining that we get that expression. Let us I believe there's thirteen times the Hebrews. We get that expressed.
Us So he's been telling us, let us come fall in the throne of grace and so on.
Oh, you see all this system here? Here's Christ. He was made outside of your your honored city, with all the ceremonies and nails of the Shameful Cross. Others leave the whole thing behind and go out under him. A blessed one who has done everything for you.
And bear gives reprose.
And instead of establishing something of biting and enduring character and coming out onto him, you remind them that in our Christian testimony, there's nothing abiding here. We have no continuing city, but we seek one to come, and I believe president, whenever we try or make something important or give.
Headlines to our position and our testimony.
Lord has the flow on it. The Lord will not allow us to have anything now a permanent character in connection with the truth.
Those who go on, I believe according to the mind of God, will always be a poor, despised, humble people.
That value the Lord's Prayer, and to desirable opens to be in his house, and to be gathered to his name alone. So the character of Philadelphia.
Thou hast a little strength, and has kept my word, and not denied my name.
The final exhortation there in Revelation 3 to Philadelphia is that which thou asked.
Hold fast till I come, that is.
What we have, the only thing that is really ours, is that we.
Have the person of Christ to which we can gather.
As guided by the Spirit of God, where the Lord Himself has promised to be in the midst.
I suppose.
When he speaks of a city here.
It's connected with the city it speaks of in chapter 12 verse 22.
As their year come unto Mount Zion and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, we belong to a heavenly city, the heavenly Jerusalem, when we're caught up to be with the Lord.
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We belong to that heavenly company, and then during the reign of Christ, that heavenly city will be up above the earth.
It won't be down here.
We'll be up there.
With the Lord the center of attraction.
And so that should help us to realize not to settle down here. This is not the place to settle down, because that's what's meant by this being a continuing city. A continuing city is one that continues on. And people would of course have a tendency to settle down in a thing like that.
They say, well, it's going to continue on. There's no chance that it's going to be done away with. We'll just settle down here. People don't usually settle down in a place that's going to be destroyed or they know that's going to be removed sometimes.
The sights of cities are caves. Well, as soon as people find out that the sight of a certain city is to be changed, they begin to move. There might be some that are reluctant to move, but they begin to move because they don't want to be in a place like that, they want to be in a continuing place.
And so this is what has happened to Saints of God down here. The whole Church, speaking generally, has settled down into the world, has been occupied to become occupied with these things, and that the Lord has given up all these things of Judaism.
But God is through with them. But what has the devil done? He has picked up all of these things.
That God has set aside, and he has presented them to Christians again for them to take up with. And these things, although they have religious significance, they are really part of the world and they are part of the devil stocking trade. And he's using these things to deceive the people of God and to drag them down and cause them to settle down here in this sea and become really part of the world.
Which is?
Spoken of here as a continuing city, an earthly thing. It's not a heavenly thing at all.
I like the way Mr. Darby translates. That 14th verse makes it emphatic as to the certainty of the city we're waiting for here. It says we seek one to come, which might leave it a little indefinite, but he puts it this way.
For we have not here an abiding city.
But we see the coming one that is this city is certainly. It's certain to come before you refer to and 1St you referred to in the 12Th chapter, the heavenly city, and then in the Revelation, the new Jerusalem. The city is sure to come, and that's what we're waiting for.
God knew that we could never be happy if left in uncertainty, so he tells us this city is sure we're going to be there in that coming day.
He would have straightened out that side of the truth of the inheritance of the Kingdom and the the blessings in connection with the city. We don't get the church in the sense of the body of Christ. In Hebrew, it's only mentioned twice.
The verse our brother Anderson suggested the 12Th chapter. We have the church and in the second chapter, but that was only by way of identification. But really it's seen here as more of the Kingdom side of things and the the city.
And in that connection, let's remember that.
Before there was a Kingdom.
It was a Tabernacle. It was a tent really. But if it was a Tabernacle for the worship of God, it was also a tent for the people to live in. And so we apply it today.
If, if we are.
In connection with that which is only temporary, down here we seek an abiding, lasting city. Well then, how about the tents? See.
About the 10th, So let's remember that we're not going to be here either very long.
33rd of Exodus this connection in the seventh verse, and Moses took the Tabernacle and fisted without the camp.
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A far off from the camp and pulled it the Tabernacle of the congregation.
Came to pass and everyone would thought the Lord went out out of the Tabernacle of the congregation which was without camp. It came to pass when Moses went out under the Tabernacle and all the people rose up and stood every man at his head door and looked out for Moses until he was going into the Tabernacle. Came to pass. As Moses entered into the Tabernacle, cloudy pillar descended and stood at the door of the Tabernacle.
And the Lord kept with Moses then in the 11Th person. And the Lord speak on the Moses face to face of the man, speak in front of his friend. He turned again at the camp, when his servant Josh were the son of a young man, parted not out of the Tabernacle.
We know at the time that Moses fits the tent for the Tabernacle outside the camp, far off from the camp.
When they had made the golden calf, and it worshipped calling that.
Called the brought them out of the land of Egypt. The whole congregation was defiled and so Moses it wasn't the Tabernacle that was built. Later passed Moses own tent.
But it gives us the principle of what we get here in the 13th of Hebrews going out on to him without the camp.
But it might be well to just stress that little expression of far off from the camp.
Sometimes we want a little of the camp mixed up with our position.
Carry something of the camp within.
I was, I told my brother not only saw that of a meeting where they wanted to bring a piano into the meeting room.
They didn't want it poorly breaking the print, but still they wanted a piano. Well, we better be careful brother. How we introduce.
Into our meetings, anything that favors of the camp for those things, you know grow and once get a foothold and a start, we have no idea how far that will go.
Oh, that's the levitate this everyone to himself.
Not only to be outside the camp, but a far off from it, have no connection whatever with that religious system that man has set up and we've been talking about.
In connection with this subject.
What if it is our privilege to go forth unto him without the camp? Is not also our privilege?
Sacrificial praise in the sanctuary.
Here have we no continuing city. I have just in my own thought, connected it with the statement made at the time of the Lord's resurrection. He is not here. Now I know that refers to his empty tomb, but somehow when I read it, I think I see it written over all the boasted works of men, not only over those things that perhaps the believer would shun as being very abhorrent.
But over those very things of which men boast in their supposed continuing city, he is not here. The Lord Jesus was here among men on earth, but He is not here any longer. They didn't want him, They cast Him out, They crucified Him. And those 4 words I believe, are written upon this 4 guilty world. He is not here.
It's a good thing for us to see those 4 words. Well then, when we find here, here, have we no continuing city? We say. Well, no wonder because he's not here. But we seek the coming one. What a wonderful thing it is, and how comforting instead of distressing it is to find that there's nothing continuing here. I remember visiting a brother. You can guess who he might be. If you prefer, he lived in the city of Detroit for quite a number of years.
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Then he moved to a quiet little farm near the town of Perth and I thought, well, that's a big change to move from the busy city of Detroit to a quiet little farm. I wonder how he likes it. So after he'd been there for a few weeks, I visited him and said, brother, how do you like living here on the farm after all those years in Detroit? Well, he smiled. I find one waiting place is as good as another, he said.
Oh, I thought. That was so nice. What?
Waiting place is as good as another. Wherever the Lord has placed us, may we see those words. He is not here written all around us, and what He may have entrusted to us is being but a waiting place, while we look for that sure and certain city that is to come.
There is a verse or two in Isaiah chapter 8.
I believe we should look at, in connection with himself, the one to whom we go forth.
Isaiah chapter 8, verses 13 and 14.
Now this is said to Israel in connection with the temptation of associating themselves.
For protection. For protection from the enemy.
So the prophet says sanctify the Lord of hosts himself and let him be your fear and let him be your dread. Don't be looking to anything else or anyone else, but just look to the Lord. Sanctify the Lord in your heart.
Sanctify the Lord would indicate, giving the Lord the place that belongs to him, the place that he longs to have in our affection, in our hearts, in our bits. Thank the Father Lord of hosts himself. Let him be your fear, let him be your dread, and he shall be for a sanctuary.
I was taken by a relative.
To A to a large church building in which he was serving. And he took me all through my church building and showed me the different parts of it. Then finally we came to a beautiful room, a large place, and it had all kinds of things in it.
And he said, this is our sanctuary. This is our sanctuary. Well, all it was was a beautiful room in that large building, large church building, with all the decorations and paraphernalia and so on in it. And to me it was not a sanctuary. And I didn't agree with it. However, I didn't say much of anything about it. But to me at the time I thought, well, I have a better sanctuary than that. The Lord Jesus Christ is my sanctuary.
He shall be for a sanctuary, and that's what he is to us. He is our sanctuary. He is everything. And are we looking for furniture and equipment and so on. Well done. When they come into our meeting room, they look for this and they look for that. They don't find it. While the Lord Jesus Christ is all we need, When He is there it properly furnished, completely furnished.
Is he really enough moral? That's the question we need to ask everyone of our hearts. Is he enough?
It's remarkable that that's voted. That chapter is quoted in Hebrews in the in the 18 first, isn't it? Brother Anderson? Behold, I and the children whom the Lord has given me are presigned for wonders in Israel from the Lord of hosts who dwelleth in Mount Zion, and so, although this will have its application in the coming day.
It had its application when the little remnant was called out at the time of the Lord Jesus was here, and he sealed his law on the disciples as we have in the 16th verse after.
Those who had stumbled and fallen rejected the testimony. So we have a double application here, and it it seems interesting that it comes in the second chapter of Hebrews.
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It has to be very careful. We're married.
We can act in an unbecoming way.
Here and among our neighbors, so that we bring reproach on ourselves, because maybe greater selfishness or unreasonable.
Behavior and action. I think of one place where a nice work of the Lord was spoken up by someone that made such a talk about some.
What the neighbors had on in their yard.
That the offended people and drove people from coming to the meetings and just broke up the nice little word that had begun there.
So we have to be sure that it is.
The Lord reproach, if we're speaking well again and true to His name and to His cause, and seeking to please the Lord in our ways and its reproach, because we are faithful to His cause, well, that's something we can thank the Lord for, and that will have its your reward at the coming days.
I think that's very important because I am afraid sometimes we'd rather emphasize the bearing of reproach.
Almost to the point where we suggest that.
I am willing to be where I am and bear the reproach associated with the Lord Jesus. Other Christians are not sharing this because they are not willing to bear this reproach. Once in a while you even hear it put that way. Other times it seems to me it's rather strongly insinuated, which to me is a very sly way of patting myself on the back, really.
And say I am willing to bear this reproach. Many other Christians are not willing to bear it, and therefore they don't enjoy this same privilege. I believe there's more than one reason, beloved, why there are true believers who are not gathered where the word of God would direct them. One is because of the reproach associated with the name of the Lord Jesus.
And the other is of failures and the shortcomings and the inconsistencies of those of us right here, those of us.
Who are gathered now? I don't say that this excuse will stand in that coming day when all is brought to light. Nevertheless, I believe it's something that we can be seriously concerned about.
And our own testimony is such that there is a lack of power to draw to the enjoyment of that precious place and privilege many many of the Lord's dear people who might be there.
If we were more consistent with the truth that we speak of.
Hey, Cortana.