Jesus Sacrifice for All

Living in Covenant

A Heart-felt Covenant

Live in the light of God (Isaiah 2:5) 

Jesus Teaches about Fulfilling the Law

Hebrews 10:1-10 The Message

The Sacrifice of Jesus

10 1-10 The old plan was only a hint of the good things in the new plan. Since that old “law plan” wasn’t complete in itself, it couldn’t complete those who followed it. No matter how many sacrifices were offered year after year, they never added up to a complete solution. If they had, the worshipers would have gone merrily on their way, no longer dragged down by their sins. But instead of removing awareness of sin, when those animal sacrifices were repeated over and over they actually heightened awareness and guilt. The plain fact is that bull and goat blood can’t get rid of sin. That is what is meant by this prophecy, put in the mouth of Christ:
You don’t want sacrifices and offerings year after year;
    you’ve prepared a body for me for a sacrifice.
It’s not fragrance and smoke from the altar
    that whet your appetite.
So I said, “I’m here to do it your way, O God,
    the way it’s described in your Book.”
When he said, “You don’t want sacrifices and offerings,” he was referring to practices according to the old plan. When he added, “I’m here to do it your way,” he set aside the first in order to enact the new plan—God’s way—by which we are made fit for God by the once-for-all sacrifice of Jesus.

For Reflection

The Mosiac Law could not perfect the people who were chosen by God to exemplify obedience to the will of God. Nor could the frequent offering of blood sacrifices absolve them. The Jesus Christ event perfected the law. It made applying the law fairly and compassionately a personal living sacrifice of our selves for the will of God.

Pray

Pray so that you will better understand the freedom that Christ affords you to live an obedient life of Grace.

Note: Photo of a dyed silk banner by students at the Presbyterian Association of Musicians, Montreat, NC, 2019
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