How many times have you bought a product or service, because it promised to do something specific, only to be disappointed? I have tried many cleaning products that claim to cut through the hard water deposits on our bathroom fixtures and leave them “sparkling clean.” None of them lived up to their claims.
Jesus made some bold claims. “No one comes to the Father except through me” (John 14:6). “I am the resurrection and the life” (John 11:25). But Jesus’ claims are true! He is our superior High Priest who offered the once-for-all sacrifice on our behalf. The blood of bull and goats could not take away our sins, but the sacrificial blood of Christ accomplished it!
I just listened to your video and am now going to print out the study! I’m so thankful that we can take Christ at His word!
Kathy, I read Hebrews 10 this morning – again – and listened again to your lesson. Thank you … for challenging me and encouraging me. I’m just overwhelmed with the gift of forgiveness, of salvation, of the confidence we can have in the perfect sacrifice of Christ. And as we face the reality that my niece will most likely need a heart transplant, that truth that someone must die so she can live has given such greater depth to my understanding that Someone died so I could truly live.
I think of that old hymn, “There is a fountain filled with blood, drawn from Emmanuel’s veins, and sinners plunged beneath that flood, lose all their guilty stains.”
So, thank you.
Teri, I thought of your niece too. What a sobering picture of what Christ did for us!
I am a little behind on this study. 🙂 But, as I am doing this, I think about Catholics and Jews. That Catholics still perform all the rituals that are not needed or wanted by Christ today. I also wonder about Jews. If they still think that Christ has not come, how come they are not making sacrifices for their sin?
Susan, don’t quote me on this because I am giving you an answer without researching it. But in my understanding, there are no sacrifices right now because there is no Temple. Sacrifices are only supposed to take place at the Temple.