Out to Jesus

Hebrews 13:12-14
Therefore Jesus also, that He might sanctify the people through His own blood, suffered outside the gate.
13 Hence, let us go out to Him outside the camp bearing His reproach.

14 Here we do not have a permanent city, but we are seeking the city which is to come.

I love these scriptures. To me they have such power and proof of Jesus' complete authority and fulfillment of the Law.
The O.T. law required that the flesh and refuse of the sin offering be taken outside of the camp or city gates and burned.

Hebrews 12:29 says that "our God is a consuming fire."
Consume means to "completely destroy, to do away with."

Yes, that is what happened to my Lord's body.
And Isaiah 53:10 says "But the Lord was pleased to crush Him, putting Him to grief";
it was Your good pleasure to pour out all Your wrath on Your Holy Son for me. His body was totally consumed and Your wrath against man's sin was satisfied because Jesus became the perfect eternal sin offering..."by the grace of God He tasted death" (Hebrew 2:9) for me and the world.

So the Hebrews writer tells me to go out TO Jesus where He is --outside the camp--bearing His reproach.

Bearing His reproach meaning out TO Jesus from WHERE?

From the mind set of the world.
From seeking the approval of man and the conformity to his thinking.
From religion as a duty.
Away from keeping a set of rules to gain God's approval.
Away fron hesitating to stand up for the truth when no one else agrees with me.
Away from the sin that entangles.

"Out to Jesus " to me, Father, is "coming" to Jesus and having my "heart strengthened by grace" (Hebrews 13:9). To remember that He, My Savior, is my perfect, burned, entirely consumed sin offering today and always.

You Father, consumed Jesus in such a way as to make me a clear, unhindered path to Your throne. That now one such as I may come confidently, fearlessly, boldly to Your throne to recive mercy and grace to help in time of need. (Hebrews 4:16)

Going out TO Jesus will cause us to bear His reproach. Am I willing to bear His shame, contempt and abuse as He did for me?

Can I do that? Only by His abounding grace and to keep seeking the city which is to come.