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Christ's Sacrifice Once for All
Hebrews 10:5-10
Good News Translation (GNT)
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5 For this reason, when Christ was about to
come into the world, he said to God:
You do not want sacrifices and offerings,
but you have prepared a body for me.
6 You are not pleased with animals burned
whole on the altar or with sacrifices to
take away sins.
7 Then I said, 'Here I am, to do your will, O God,
just as it is written of me in the book of the
Law.'"
8 First he said, "You neither want nor are you
pleased with sacrifices and offerings or with
animals burned on the altar and the sacrifices
to take away sins." He said this even though
all these sacrifices are offered according to the
Law.
9 Then he said, "Here I am, O God, to do your
will." So God does away with all the old
sacrifices and puts the sacrifice of Christ in
their place.
10 Because Jesus Christ did what God wanted
him to do, we are all purified from sin by the
offering that he made of his own body once
and for all.
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Commentary taken from
'The Applied New Testament Commentary'
(Kingsway)
Christ's Sacrifice Once for All
Hebrews 10:5-10
The writer of Hebrews here quotes from Psalm 40:6-8.
Here we again read that God did not desire sacrifices and offerings.
What He desired was a body - not the body of a dumb animal, but the body of a man offered to God in complete obedience.
Therefore, God prepared a body for Christ (verse 5).
When Christ in complete obedience offered up His own body as a living sacrifice, God was pleased.
Christ said, "I have come to do your will,
O God" (verse 7).
Christ's obedience was what God desired most of all.
The Old Testament prophet Samuel said: "Does the Lord delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices as much as in obeying the voice of the Lord?
To obey is better than sacrifice, and to heed is better than the fat of rams"
(1 Samuel 15:22).
The scroll mentioned in verse 7 is the Old Testament, which contains many prophecies concerning Christ.
Christ Himself was the fulfilment of all these prophecies.
In the Old Testament, God's will is explained.
And in Christ's life, God's will was perfectly fulfilled.
When Christ came to offer Himself as the perfect and final sacrifice, He "set aside" the first covenant in order to establish the second covenant (verse 9).
And by that will - that is, by fulfilling God's will - Christ, through the sacrifice of His body, has made us holy both inside and out.
God's will was that Christ should offer His own body to atone for our sins, and that through His sacrifice we might be presented before God having been made holy in his sight, without blemish and free from accusation
(Colossians 1:21-22).
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