HEBREWS CHAPTER 10 (10 OF 13)
Scripture: Hebrews 10:1-39
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Hebrews Chapter 10 (10 of 13)
Series: Hebrews
Harley Howard
Hebrews 10
1 For the law having a shadow of good things to come, [and] not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect.
The Mosaic Law was a shadow, an image representing the form or the object of something. It was an outline, of the good things to come; the sacrificial and High Priestly work of Jesus Christ and not the likeness or the reality. The emphasis of the new covenant over the old is stressed again in the verse by the word, good. This speaks of the quality of the new covenant as opposed to the old. Also notice the absolute finality of which the writer used to teach that animal sacrifices had no ability to save any worshipper. He said that the shadow (Mosaic law or the Levitical, sacrificial system) could never make the ones who came with the sacrifice year after year, perfect (A reference to the Day of Atonement). The word, perfect certainly cannot mean maturity in this verse. It refers to salvation, as we have already seen in many verses in our study in Hebrews. The law could not save because it was a shadow of the reality (Salvation through Christ) and not the reality itself.
2 For then would they not have ceased to be offered? because that the worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins.
If the Levitical offerings saved the offerer, then at an appointed time, they would have ceased to be offered up; since the worshippers once for all, and for all time, being purged or cleansed from filth and its associated guilt, should have had no more conscience of sin. They would have had no more awareness of their unending guilt before God. The constant sacrifices for sin only reminded the worshippers that no forgiveness or finality was in sight. It just brought on more grieving of the conscience. Notice a very important fact about the tense that i ...
Series: Hebrews
Harley Howard
Hebrews 10
1 For the law having a shadow of good things to come, [and] not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect.
The Mosaic Law was a shadow, an image representing the form or the object of something. It was an outline, of the good things to come; the sacrificial and High Priestly work of Jesus Christ and not the likeness or the reality. The emphasis of the new covenant over the old is stressed again in the verse by the word, good. This speaks of the quality of the new covenant as opposed to the old. Also notice the absolute finality of which the writer used to teach that animal sacrifices had no ability to save any worshipper. He said that the shadow (Mosaic law or the Levitical, sacrificial system) could never make the ones who came with the sacrifice year after year, perfect (A reference to the Day of Atonement). The word, perfect certainly cannot mean maturity in this verse. It refers to salvation, as we have already seen in many verses in our study in Hebrews. The law could not save because it was a shadow of the reality (Salvation through Christ) and not the reality itself.
2 For then would they not have ceased to be offered? because that the worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins.
If the Levitical offerings saved the offerer, then at an appointed time, they would have ceased to be offered up; since the worshippers once for all, and for all time, being purged or cleansed from filth and its associated guilt, should have had no more conscience of sin. They would have had no more awareness of their unending guilt before God. The constant sacrifices for sin only reminded the worshippers that no forgiveness or finality was in sight. It just brought on more grieving of the conscience. Notice a very important fact about the tense that i ...
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