Sinful men are appointed to die only once, and after that, they are judged.
Therefore, Jesus died only once for our sins, but when He died, the judgment was cut off for us all – for Christ and for His beloved people!
That is why Jesus Christ declared when He died for us, "it is finished!"
Hebrews next reminds us of the weakness and unprofitableness of the types and shadows of the Old Covenant animal offerings, that they could never make the penitent sinner perfect.
If the animal sacrifices could take away sin, then they would cease, because they were no longer needed.
Then the sinners would have no consciousness of wrath or judgment remaining from God, for God would be truly and forever propitiated by the sacrifices of animals.
The fact that those animal sacrifices had to be repeated forever, brought the sins to mind, that the problem of sin and judgment had not been finally settled with God.
The reason, Hebrews next argues, is that it is not possible for the blood of animal offerings to take away sin.
That's because the life of a lowly animal is no adequate substitute for the life of the sinner, which God's justice demands for sin. A man's life cannot be redeemed from his sins by the death of one of lesser value.
But Christ is an offering that puts an end to all those inferior sacrifices, showing that our sins are finally and irrevocably forgiven by the holy God, when He is satisfied that justice has finally been done for our crimes in His Dear Son, and so we are set free.
Indeed, in Psalm 40, Christ discloses God's not desiring animal sacrifices, nor being satisfied with them, but rather preparing a body for God the Son to offer, in obedience as God's servant!
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John Pittman Hey was born in 1961 in Jackson, Mississippi, to Godly parents who from the beginning raised him in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. With child-like faith he came to Christ on his fourth birthday at his mother's knee. He received his education at church...
