Hebrews 10:3 - Forerunner Commentary

Hebrews 10:3

Animal Sacrifices Insufficient

1 For the law, having a ^ashadow of the good things to come, and not the very image of the things, ^bcan never with these same sacrifices, which they offer continually year by year, make those who approach perfect.

2 For then would they not have ceased to be offered? For the worshipers, once¹ purified, would have had no more consciousness of sins.

3 But in those sacrifices there is a reminder of sins every year.

4 For ^ait is not possible that the blood of bulls and goats could take away sins.

Christ’s Death Fulfills God’s Will

5 Therefore, when He came into the world, He said:
^a“Sacrifice and offering You did not desire,
But a body You have prepared for Me.

6 In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin
You had no pleasure.

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Think of this in relation to the millions upon millions of animals that were slaughtered in Israel’s history:

The New Testament shows man incapable of offering anything to placate God because God is a righteous God. The blood of 10 million animals is not worth the life of one human being created in the image of God and it would not be right for God to accept such as an inadequate offering. God will not put you down by accepting the offering of an animal in your place. You are too precious for Him. You are too valuable. No animal, not even 10 million animals, can equal you.

The righteousness of God demands that there has to be something greater than you to cover your sins or you have to cover them yourself. For God to accept sinful man, it was necessary for God Himself, not man, to do something to deliver us from our sins.

Excerpted from The Talking Blood (1994) by John W. Ritenbaugh

Hebrews 10:1-6

The repeated sacrificial offerings of animals found in Leviticus could never take away sins, brethren. The penalty for mankind's sin is mankind's death. The value of the life of an animal was not even close to the value of the life of a person.

This one payment was so large it will satisfy the cost of all the sins of all mankind, for all of the world, for all of time. When Jesus Christ, God the Son, came into the world, God provided Him a human body, we read here, which enabled Him to serve God's will and be our sacrifice once for all.

Excerpted from The Bond of Perfection: Sacrifice by Bill Onisick

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