Hebrews 10:1-10: Christ's Sacrifice Replaces the Law
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Introduction
Introduction
Scripture
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For since the law has but a shadow of the good things to come instead of the true form of these realities, it can never, by the same sacrifices that are continually offered every year, make perfect those who draw near. Otherwise, would they not have ceased to be offered, since the worshipers, having once been cleansed, would no longer have any consciousness of sins? But in these sacrifices there is a reminder of sins every year. For it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.
Consequently, when Christ came into the world, he said,
“Sacrifices and offerings you have not desired,
but a body have you prepared for me;
in burnt offerings and sin offerings
you have taken no pleasure.
Then I said, ‘Behold, I have come to do your will, O God,
as it is written of me in the scroll of the book.’ ”
When he said above, “You have neither desired nor taken pleasure in sacrifices and offerings and burnt offerings and sin offerings” (these are offered according to the law), then he added, “Behold, I have come to do your will.” He does away with the first in order to establish the second. And by that will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
Outline
Outline
Hebrews 1-2 - Jesus is Greater Than the Angels
Hebrews 1-2 - Jesus is Greater Than the Angels
Hebrews 1:1-4 - God has Spoken
Hebrews 1:5-14 - The Son is Superior to the Angels
Hebrews 2:1-4 - A Warning
Hebrews 2:5-9 - Lowliness to Crowning Glory
Hebrews 2:10-18 - Jesus has Delivered His Brothers
Hebrews 3:1-4:13 - Jesus is a Greater Rest
Hebrews 3:1-4:13 - Jesus is a Greater Rest
Hebrews 3:1-6 - Jesus is Worthy of More Glory Than Moses
Hebrews 3:7-19 - Disobedience After the Exodus
Hebrews 4:1-13 - A Sabbath Rest for God’s People
Hebrews 4:14-7:26 - Jesus is Greater than Melchizedek
Hebrews 4:14-7:26 - Jesus is Greater than Melchizedek
Hebrews 4:14-16 - Jesus is the Great High Priest
Hebrews 5:1-10 - Jesus is the High Priest After the Order of Melchizedek
Hebrews 5:11-6:20 - Warning and Exhortation
Hebrews 5:11-14 - Failure to Mature
Hebrews 6:1-8 - Pursue Maturity
Hebrews 6:9-12 - Loving Motivation
Hebrews 6:13-20 - The Promise of God’s Word and God’s Oath
Hebrews 7:1-10 - The Greatness of Melchizedek
Hebrews 7:11-19 - Jesus’ Priesthood is Needed
Hebrews 7:20-28 - Jesus Guarantees a Better Covenant
Hebrews 8:1-10:18 - Jesus is the Greater Covenant
Hebrews 8:1-10:18 - Jesus is the Greater Covenant
Hebrews 8:1-6 - Jesus Mediates a Better Covenant
Hebrews 8:7-13 - The Promise of the New Covenant
Hebrews 9:1-10 - The Earthly Tabernacle Points to What Would Come
Hebrews 9:11-14 - Christ is The Mercy Seat
Hebrews 9:15-22 - Blood is Necessary for Forgiveness
Hebrews 9:23-28 - Christ’s Sacrifice Permanently Removes Sin
Hebrews 10:1-10 - Christ’s Sacrifice Replaces the Law
Hebrews 10:1-4 - Animal Sacrifices do not Sanctify
Hebrews 10:5-10 - Christ’s Sacrifice Sanctifies
Purpose of Book
Purpose of Book
Christ, who has accomplished salvation through His atoning sacrifice, is greater than all things; therefore, persevere in true faith and encourage others to do likewise
Christ, who has accomplished salvation through His atoning sacrifice, is greater than all things; therefore, persevere in true faith and encourage others to do likewise
Main Point
Main Point
The animal sacrifices of the law did not please God, but the sacrifice of Christ fully sanctifies us
The animal sacrifices of the law did not please God, but the sacrifice of Christ fully sanctifies us
Hebrews 10:1-4 - Animal Sacrifices do not Sanctify
Hebrews 10:1-4 - Animal Sacrifices do not Sanctify
For since the law has but a shadow of the good things to come instead of the true form of these realities, it can never, by the same sacrifices that are continually offered every year, make perfect those who draw near. Otherwise, would they not have ceased to be offered, since the worshipers, having once been cleansed, would no longer have any consciousness of sins? But in these sacrifices there is a reminder of sins every year. For it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.
For since the law has but a shadow of the good things to come instead of the true form of these realities,
For since the law has but a shadow of the good things to come instead of the true form of these realities,
5 They serve a copy and shadow of the heavenly things. For when Moses was about to erect the tent, he was instructed by God, saying, “See that you make everything according to the pattern that was shown you on the mountain.”
16 Therefore let no one pass judgment on you in questions of food and drink, or with regard to a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath. 17 These are a shadow of the things to come, but the substance belongs to Christ.
Good things to come
Both a present and future reality
It can never, by the same sacrifices that are continually offered every year, make perfect those who draw near.
It can never, by the same sacrifices that are continually offered every year, make perfect those who draw near.
Never… make perfect
18 For on the one hand, a former commandment is set aside because of its weakness and uselessness 19 (for the law made nothing perfect); but on the other hand, a better hope is introduced, through which we draw near to God.
9 (which is symbolic for the present age). According to this arrangement, gifts and sacrifices are offered that cannot perfect the conscience of the worshiper, 10 but deal only with food and drink and various washings, regulations for the body imposed until the time of reformation.
Perfect those who draw near
10 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel
after those days, declares the Lord:
I will put my laws into their minds,
and write them on their hearts,
and I will be their God,
and they shall be my people.
11 And they shall not teach, each one his neighbor
and each one his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’
for they shall all know me,
from the least of them to the greatest.
12 For I will be merciful toward their iniquities,
and I will remember their sins no more.”
14 Since then we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession. 15 For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who in every respect has been tempted as we are, yet without sin. 16 Let us then with confidence draw near to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need.
Otherwise, would they not have ceased to be offered, since the worshipers, having once been cleansed, would no longer have any consciousness of sins?
Otherwise, would they not have ceased to be offered, since the worshipers, having once been cleansed, would no longer have any consciousness of sins?
Worshipers
Not simply the priests, but all those who are followers
Having once been cleansed… consciousness of sins?
The old covenant system was unable to purify the conscience
13 For if the blood of goats and bulls, and the sprinkling of defiled persons with the ashes of a heifer, sanctify for the purification of the flesh, 14 how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, purify our conscience from dead works to serve the living God.
The OT law was instituted by God to foreshadow what would come
But in these sacrifices there is a reminder of sins every year.
But in these sacrifices there is a reminder of sins every year.
For it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sin.
For it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sin.
14 Since therefore the children share in flesh and blood, he himself likewise partook of the same things, that through death he might destroy the one who has the power of death, that is, the devil, 15 and deliver all those who through fear of death were subject to lifelong slavery.
Blood of bulls and goats
Day of Atonement language
Purified the flesh, but not the conscience
Hebrews 10:5-10 - Christ’s Sacrifice Sanctifies
Hebrews 10:5-10 - Christ’s Sacrifice Sanctifies
Consequently, when Christ came into the world, he said,
“Sacrifices and offerings you have not desired,
but a body have you prepared for me;
in burnt offerings and sin offerings
you have taken no pleasure.
Then I said, ‘Behold, I have come to do your will, O God,
as it is written of me in the scroll of the book.’ ”
When he said above, “You have neither desired nor taken pleasure in sacrifices and offerings and burnt offerings and sin offerings” (these are offered according to the law), then he added, “Behold, I have come to do your will.” He does away with the first in order to establish the second. And by that will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
Consequently, when Christ came into the world, he said,
Consequently, when Christ came into the world, he said,
Came into the world
Sin-cursed world, not an age to come
A Jewish expression for birth, but Christ was preexistent
He said
Christ realizes that the Father does not desire sacrifices or offerings by animals, but by HIS OWN BODY
***Psalm 40:6-8***
***Psalm 40:6-8***
7 You did not want sacrifice and offering,
but you restored a body to me.
You did not ask for whole burnt offering
and an offering concerning sin.
8 Then I said, “Look, I have arrived.
In the scroll of the document it has been written concerning me.
9 I wish to do your will, O my God,
and your law is in the middle of my heart.”
Psalm 40:1-11 - Thanksgiving Song
Psalm 40:12-18 - Lament Song
Psalm 40:6-8 - Sacrifices are not the requirement, but commitment to God’s will which is what David did with his life
Though David committed his entire life to God, he continued to offer sacrifices
Jesus is the greater Davidic King - He offered sacrifices once and never again
“Sacrifices and offerings you have not desired, but a body have you prepared for me; in burnt offerings and sin offerings you have taken no pleasure.
“Sacrifices and offerings you have not desired, but a body have you prepared for me; in burnt offerings and sin offerings you have taken no pleasure.
A body have you prepared for me
Speaking of the incarnation
In burnt offerings and sin offerings you have taken no pleasure
22 And Samuel said,
“Has the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices,
as in obeying the voice of the Lord?
Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice,
and to listen than the fat of rams.
Then I said, ‘Behold, I have come to do your will, O God, as it is written of me in the scroll of the book.’”
Then I said, ‘Behold, I have come to do your will, O God, as it is written of me in the scroll of the book.’”
Behold I have come to do your will, O God
Obedience is in view here
Scroll of the book
Christ is the perfect Davidic King thus fulfilling Davidic Covenant
When he said above, “You have neither desired nor taken pleasure in sacrifices and offerings and burnt offerings and sin offerings” (these are offered according to the law),
When he said above, “You have neither desired nor taken pleasure in sacrifices and offerings and burnt offerings and sin offerings” (these are offered according to the law),
Then he added, “Behold, I have come to do your will.” He does away with the first in order to establish the second.
Then he added, “Behold, I have come to do your will.” He does away with the first in order to establish the second.
Come to do your will
15 For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who in every respect has been tempted as we are, yet without sin.
Does away with the first in order to establish the second
The Mosaic law has been displaced by the new covenant
And by that will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
And by that will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
By that will
The will of God made manifest in Christ
Offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all
Application
Application
The sacrifices of the Mosaic covenant did not take away sins, they purified the flesh, but not the conscience
The sacrifices of the Mosaic covenant did not take away sins, they purified the flesh, but not the conscience
Christ was perfectly obedient to the Father, offerings Himself as a sacrifice, and establishes the new covenant
Christ was perfectly obedient to the Father, offerings Himself as a sacrifice, and establishes the new covenant
Main Point
Main Point
The animal sacrifices of the law did not please God, but the sacrifice of Christ fully sanctifies us
The animal sacrifices of the law did not please God, but the sacrifice of Christ fully sanctifies us