10:3,4
So the repeated sacrifices of the Law were an “annual reminder of sins”. They reminded the people of the fact that they were sinners in need of forgiveness. Our concept of forgiveness is perhaps far too weak, the blood sacrifice is a reminder of the depths of God’s forgiveness. This raises interesting questions regarding Holy Communion or the Lord’s Supper. Do we approach it as a reminder of our sins? Or do we approach it as a reminder that we have been completely forgiven? That the cross has taken away our sin?
10:5-7
The writer then quotes from Psalm 40:6-8. So yet again a Psalm is used to prove a deep theological point. The Psalm declares that the sacrifices were not satisfying God’s desire, but that He was looking forward to something better. That something was His Son Jesus Christ. The coming of Christ was prophesied in the Old Testament, on the road to Emmaus Jesus explained to the two disciples how all of the Law and the Prophets pointed to HIm (Lk 24:27). Jesus came to do the will of God.
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