How Then Shall We Come to the World

Not Included

Hebrews 13:9–10 NIV

Do not be carried away by all kinds of strange teachings. It is good for our hearts to be strengthened by grace, not by eating ceremonial foods, which is of no benefit to those who do so. We have an altar from which those who minister at the tabernacle have no right to eat.

Do not let your heart be led astray by the teachings of inclusion that are so popular with the old guard. The Christian faith is centered around the grace of the Lord that sustains us, not the ceremony or any of its parts. Out worship is sufficient on its own because it is enveloped in the work of grace given to us by Christ upon the cross.

Outsiders

Hebrews 13:11–14 NIV

The high priest carries the blood of animals into the Most Holy Place as a sin offering, but the bodies are burned outside the camp. And so Jesus also suffered outside the city gate to make the people holy through his own blood. Let us, then, go to him outside the camp, bearing the disgrace he bore. For here we do not have an enduring city, but we are looking for the city that is to come.