1 For the Law, since it has only a shadow of the good things to come and not the very form of things, can never, by the same sacrifices which they offer continually year by year, make perfect those who draw near.
2 Otherwise, would they not have ceased to be offered, because the worshipers, having once been cleansed, would no longer have had consciousness of sins?
3 But in those sacrifices there is a reminder of sins year by year.
4 For it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.
5 Therefore, when He comes into the world, He says,
“Sacrifice and offering You have not desired,
But a body You have prepared for Me;
6 In whole burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin You have taken no pleasure.
7 “Then I said, ‘Behold, I have come
(In the scroll of the book it is written of Me)
To do Your will, O God.’ ”
8 After saying above, “Sacrifices and offerings and whole burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin You have not desired, nor have You taken pleasure in them” (which are offered according to the Law),
9 then He said, “Behold, I have come to do Your will.” He takes away the first in order to establish the second.
10 By this will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
11 Every priest stands daily ministering and offering time after time the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins;
12 but He, having offered one sacrifice for sins for all time, sat down at the right hand of God,
13 waiting from that time onward until His enemies be made a footstool for His feet.
14 For by one offering He has perfected for all time those who are sanctified.
15 And the Holy Spirit also testifies to us; for after saying,
16 “This is the covenant that I will make with them
After those days, says the Lord:
I will put My laws upon their heart,
And on their mind I will write them,”
He then says,
17 “And their sins and their lawless deeds
I will remember no more.”
18 Now where there is forgiveness of these things, there is no longer any offering for sin.
“For the Law, since it has only a shadow of the good things to come and not the very form of things,” The Law was never given to take away sin, but it was a sign of the great thing to come that we might understand the significance of the great sacrifice. The Law “can never, by the same sacrifices which they offer continually year by year, make perfect those who draw near. Otherwise, would they not have ceased to be offered, because the worshipers, having once been cleansed, would no longer have had consciousness of sins?” Again we see the weakness of the Old Covenant sacrifice, it was never able to make perfect the worshiper and thus the worshiper could never draw near to God. God was always feared. No one ever wanted to go to the
“Therefore, when He comes into the world, He says, ‘Sacrifice and offering You have not desired, but a body You have prepared for Me; In whole burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin You have taken no pleasure. ‘Then I said, ‘Behold, I have come (In the scroll of the book it is written of Me) To do Your will, O God.’’ After saying above, ‘Sacrifices and offerings and whole burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin You have not desired, nor have You taken pleasure in them’ (which are offered according to the Law), then He said, ‘Behold, I have come to do Your will.’ He takes away the first in order to establish the second. By this will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.” Here the author pulls the Messianic meaning from an Old Testament psalm. David is pleading for God to rescue him and speaks of his new learning, that is that God is not pleased with sacrifices and offering, but rather He desires obedience – for one to do His will. And so where David said, here Christ says, “Behold, I have come to do Your will.” By this Christ is replacing the Old Covenant sacrifice with Himself by being offered up once and for all.
“Every priest stands daily ministering and offering time after time the same sacrifices” because the work of satisfying God’s wrath is never complete. There offerings never accomplish the task of forgiveness. These sacrifices “can never take away sins; but He, having offered one sacrifice for sins for all time, sat down at the right hand of God”. Christ, unlike any other priest of God sat down. They would go before the alter over and over with their work never being finished, but Christ sat down. His work is finished. He completed the task. Salvation is secured in Him. So now He sits “waiting from that time onward until His enemies be made a footstool for His feet.” All things are completely under His subjection and He rules from the right hand, but because of His providence and mercy He allows life to continue as it is for His purposes until God makes His enemies a footstool for His feet.
“For by one offering He has perfected for all time those who are sanctified. And the Holy Spirit also testifies to us; for after saying, ‘This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, says the Lord: I will put My laws upon their heart, And on their mind I will write them,’ He then says, ‘And their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more.’ Now where there is forgiveness of these things, there is no longer any offering for sin.” This one offering of Christ has perfected, made complete and without sin before God those who are set apart by the New Covenant. And so the preacher closes the doctrinal heart of this book by bringing to fulfillment in our minds the blessing and hope of the New Covenant inaugurated by the blood of Christ. There is no longer sin hanging over the head of the believer because Christ has dealt with that sin and so there no longer remains any sacrifices. The New Covenant is far superior to the Old and Jesus is its high priest.
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