The writer of Hebrews declares that, because there was a change in the priesthood, there must also be a change of the law.
But Hebrews also describes another crucial change, that he shows logically flows from the change in priesthood.
He first established the deity and supremacy of Christ, and that He died to rescue His brethren. He then demonstrates from Psalm 110 that Christ is a priest apart from the Mosaic law, that He is without sin, and that He offers a better sacrifice than those provided by the law.
Thus, Hebrews introduces this fact: that with the new priesthood of Christ, there must come also a change in the sacrifice!
This is logically necessary, since the old sacrifices were assigned to the old priesthood. There being a new priest, and a change in the law, He must be fitted up with a new sacrifice.
Christ offers Himself as that new sacrifice, and it is far superior to the old sacrifices which could never take away sin.
But why did God want to change the sacrifice? Hebrews 10 tells us why: because the old sacrifices couldn't save His people, and He takes no pleasure in them. Not only could God's people never attain righteousness by the law, but we could never recover righteousness by the old sacrifices.
Messiah Himself declares God's dissatisfaction with the sacrifices of the law, and His perfect satisfaction with Christ's sacrifice of Himself, with the very body that God had prepared for Christ at the incarnation.
By that one sacrifice which is God's will and pleasing to Him, Christ forever purged away the sin of His people!
The old sacrifices provided no life, but Christ's offering provides immortality to all who trust in Him!
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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...
