Sunday, October 13, 2024

Jesus, Once for All, Dealt with Sin - Hebrews 8-10

Hebrews 9:25-28 (ESV)

Nor was it to offer himself repeatedly, as the high priest enters the holy places every year with blood not his own, for then he would have had to suffer repeatedly since the foundation of the world. But as it is, he has appeared once for all at the end of the ages to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself. And just as it is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes judgment, so Christ, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, not to deal with sin but to save those who are eagerly waiting for him.


The above passage is talking about the giving of Jesus for the payment of our sins.   It is found in a section that is comparing Jesus to the Old Testament priest, daily sacrifice for their sins and the sins of the nation of Israel.   In the book of Hebrews the writer is trying to make a case that Jesus, in His life, death and resurrection, is great than all the other aspects of the Old Testament system.   In this section the writer is making the case that Jesus is more superior than the Old Testament priest.   Those priest had to go every day, into the Tabernacle/Temple and offer up sacrifices for themselves and the sins of the people.  On the Day of Atonement, each year, they would go and offer a blood sacrifice of an animal to ask God to forgive them of their sins.    In the above passage we have the contrast to that system with what Jesus did.  He offered a blood sacrifice as well.   But the blood was His own, because the sacrifice was Him.  He does not need to repeat that sacrifice daily, or yearly.   He has offered Himself, once for all, for the sins of those who believe.   He will return again, someday, not to deal with sin (since it was dealt with on the cross by the sacrifice of Himself).   He will return someday to complete the process and take us to be with Him forever (John 14:1-6).   Our sins have been dealt with for all times.   There is no need for Him to come daily like the OT priests.   He covered our sin for all times by His own blood, the sacrifice of Himself for our sins.   Jesus is superior to the OT system.   We can rejoice that our sins are dealt with on the cross by His sacrifice.  


Hebrews 13:11-13 (ESV Strong's)

For the bodies of those animals whose blood is brought into the holy places by the high priest as a sacrifice for sin are burned outside the camp. SO JESUS ALSO SUFFERED OUTSIDE THE GATE IN ORDER TO SANCTIFY the people THROUGH HIS OWN BLOOD🩸 . Therefore let us go to him outside the camp and bear the reproach he endured.  

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