Hebrews 10:1-18 NIV
Christ’s Sacrifice Once for All
1The law
is only a shadow of the good things that are coming—not the realities
themselves. For this reason it can never, by the same sacrifices repeated
endlessly year after year, make perfect those who draw near to worship. 2Otherwise,
would they not have stopped being offered? For the worshipers would have been
cleansed once for all, and would no longer have felt guilty for their sins. 3But
those sacrifices are an annual reminder of sins. 4 It is impossible for the blood
of bulls and goats to take away sins.
5 Therefore, when Christ came into
the world, He said:
“Sacrifice and offering You did not desire,
but a Body you prepared for Me;
6
with burnt offerings and sin
offerings
You were not pleased.
7
Then I said, ‘Here I am—it
is written about Me in the scroll—
I have come to do Your Will, My God.’ ”a
8First He
said, “Sacrifices and offerings,
burnt offerings and sin offerings you did not desire, nor were you pleased with
them”—though they were offered in accordance with the law.
9Then He
said, “Here I am, I have come to do Your
Will.” He sets aside the first to establish the second.
10 And by that Will, we have been made
holy through the sacrifice of the Body of Jesus Christ once for all.
11Day
after day every priest stands and performs his religious duties; again and
again he offers the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins.
12 But when this Priest had offered for all time
one sacrifice for sins, He sat down at the Right Hand of God, 13 and since that time He waits for His enemies to
be made His footstool. 14
For by one sacrifice He has
made perfect forever those who are being made holy.
15The
Holy Spirit also testifies to us about this. First He says:
16
“This is the covenant I will
make with them
after that time,
says the Lord.
I will put my laws in their hearts,
and I will write them on their minds.”b
17Then He
adds:
“Their sins and lawless acts
I will remember no more.”c
18And
where these have been forgiven, sacrifice for sin is no longer necessary.
Hebrews 10:1-18
The general subject of
this chapter is
the sacrifice which Christ has made for sin, and the consequences which flow
from the fact, that he has made a sufficient atonement. In chapter 9, the
apostle had shown that the Jewish rites were designed to be temporary and
typical, and that the offerings which were made under that dispensation could
never remove sin.
In this chapter he
shows that the true sacrifice had been made, by which sin could be pardoned,
and that certain very important consequences followed from that fact. The
subject of "sacrifice" was the most important part of the Mosaic law,
and was also the essential thing in the Gospel age, and hence, it is that the
apostle highlights at a great length. The chapter embraces the following
topics.
I. The apostle repeats
what he had said before about the inefficacy of the sacrifices made under the
Law; Hebrews 10:1-4.
The Law was a mere shadow of good things to come, and the sacrifices which were
made under it could never make those who offered them perfect. This was conclusively
proved by the fact that they continued constantly to be offered.
II. Since this was the
fact in regard to those sacrifices, a better offering had been provided in the
gospel by the Redeemer; Hebrews 10:5-10. A body
had been prepared Him for this work; and when God had said that He had no
pleasure in the offerings under the Law, Christ had come and offered His Body
once for all, in order that an effectual atonement might be made for sin.
III. This sentiment
the apostle further illustrates, by showing how this One Great Offering was
connected with the forgiveness of sins; Hebrews 10:11-18. Under
the Jewish dispensation, sacrifices were repeated every day; but under the Gospel,
when the sacrifice was once made, He Who had offered it sat down forever on the
Right Hand of God, for His great work was done. Having done this, He looked
forward to the time when His work would have full effect, and when His enemies
would be made His footstool. That this was to be the effect of the offering
made by the Messiah, the apostle then shows from the Scriptures themselves, where
it is said Jeremiah
31:33-34, that under the gospel the laws of God would be written on
the heart, and sin would be remembered no more. There must then be, the apostle
inferred, some way by which this was to be secured, and this was by the great
sacrifice on the Cross, which had the effect of perfecting forever those who
were sanctified.
No comments:
Post a Comment