Let us go forth...without the camp

Heb 13:10 We have an altar, whereof they have no right to eat which serve the tabernacle.
Heb 13:11 For the bodies of those beasts, whose blood is brought into the sanctuary by the high priest for sin, are burned without the camp.
Heb 13:12 Wherefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people with his own blood, suffered without the gate.
Heb 13:13 Let us go forth therefore unto him without the camp, bearing his reproach.


The sacrificial system was set up by God to point the way to the Messiah, the Innocent Lamb to be slain once - for all. The way to become one with God was guaranteed in our Savior and the sacrifice He made. No lamb, no bullock, no turtledove, no ram, no animal whatsoever- however pure without blemish or spot - once sacrificed could repair the breech created by man's disobeying God. All those thousands upon thousands, maybe millions of animals sacrificed pointed towards the ONE sacrifice that could repair the breech.


Isa 53:1 Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed?
Isa 53:2 For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.
Isa 53:3 He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
Isa 53:4 Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.
Isa 53:5 But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.
Isa 53:6 All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.
Isa 53:7 He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth.
Isa 53:8 He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken.
Isa 53:9 And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth.
Isa 53:10 Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand.
Isa 53:11 He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities.
Isa 53:12 Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.



The LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.


Once the Lord sacrificed Himself for us NO animal sacrifice was needed because we could LOOK to the Lord as our Sacrifice.


Heb 13:10 We have an altar, whereof they have no right to eat which serve the tabernacle.
Heb 13:11 For the bodies of those beasts, whose blood is brought into the sanctuary by the high priest for sin, are burned without the camp.
Heb 13:12 Wherefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people with his own blood, suffered without the gate.
Heb 13:13 Let us go forth therefore unto him without the camp, bearing his reproach.


Jesus sacrificed Himself, and where He sacrificed Himself automatically became the altar- the cross was the altar upon which Jesus was sacrificed. We do have an altar and those who refuse to believe that Jesus Christ, the Son of God, sacrificed Himself on that altar for them have NO right to the salvation offered through Him, no right at all. Everyone that believes that they still need to offer animal sacrifices, that they still need to symbolize what has already happened in the great sacrifice of Christ, can't believe that they are saved through Christ- they reject the one and only way to salvation.


Jesus is the complete sacrifice for sin! Jesus was sacrificed as the typified sacrifices were. He was the ULTIMATE sacrifice. There is NOTHING Satan can use to say that Jesus got it wrong that His sacrifice was insufficient, nothing!


We too must go without the camp to Jesus! We have to go where Jesus went. We have to go the altar. We have to be willing to be with Jesus no matter where that leads us, no matter what reproach that brings to us.


These are the 'deep things' of Christ we are to delve into!


1Co 2:10 But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.


This is the MEAT we are to be eating as Christians who are no longer babes needing milk.


Heb 5:12 For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat.


We need to eat this STRONG MEAT!


We need to understand this--


Heb 13:13 Let us go forth therefore unto him without the camp, bearing his reproach.


We aren't to stay WITHIN the camp.
We have to GO FORTH therefore UNTO HIM.


How many are staying within the camp?
How many are still sacrificing at the altar that is within the camp?
How many are NOT trusting in Jesus to be their all in all?
How many are still looking to rituals to save them?
We look to a man, not to things. We look to our Savior not within the camp but without!


May God help us to do so, may He help us to feed on all the strong meat He presents to us, growing stronger in knowledge of Him through the Holy Spirit, by His grace!


Amen.