People who identify as Christians but who have no wish to be changed by God, who have no desire to be any different to all the unbelievers around about them - who don't want to live their whole lives for Jesus, who simply don't care much about living in the light and spreading the light of the good news - probably aren't believers. They are maybe God-fearers or people who enjoy the environment and care created by Christians, or people who want a "spiritual bit" in their lives or some kind of divine insurance policy for when they die. But probably they are not believers. And there are loads of them in churches.
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that is a great description of the New Covenant to finish on: grace that causes overflowing thanksgiving, for the sake of God's glory.
Read moreHow to Get a Clean Conscience; Heb 9:1-14
So that's why all this obscure stuff about Old Covenant worship is here - to highlight the wonder of New Covenant access to God. They had a high priest who couldn't get them in and worship practices that couldn't cleanse consciences. We have a high priest who has gone in and takes us with him and whose cross deals with sin and guilt utterly and eternally.
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