Ep. 347. Hebrews 10 | A Better Sacrifice

EPISODE 347

A BETTER SACRIFICE: HEBREWS 10

Christ "Does away with the first in order to establish the second." Christ did away with the first covenant, its priesthood, its temple, and its sacrifices so that he could establish the second. The new covenant is one of grace; the new priesthood is found in Jesus and remains forever, the new temple is the very heaven of God, and the new sacrifice is Jesus. The new was needed because "It is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins." Those sacrifices of the Old Testament could not make anyone clean and could not remove sins. And even if those sacrifices were thought to make someone clean from sin, they could not overthrow the power of sin or the guilt associated with it. In contrast to the Old Testament sacrifices, we see that in Jesus, "By a single offering he has perfected for all time those who are being sanctified."

I would love nothing more than that my fellow believers would come to understand the riches found in the new covenant and the futility of the first. Too often people try to marry the two covenants into a single one; forgetting that the first was always intended to point to the coming of the second.

ADDITIONAL READING: Psalm 40:6-8; Galatians 2:16; Psalm 10:1; Matthew 27: 51; Deuteronomy 32:35-36