Hidden Treasures: A One Time Sacrifice for Sins

Hebrews 9:12-14 Not with the blood of goats and calves, but with His own blood He entered the Most Holy Place once for all, having obtained eternal redemption. For if the blood of bulls and goats and the ashes of a heifer, sprinkling the unclean, sanctifies for the purifying of the flesh, how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without spot to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?




The Old Testament people were required to do sacrifice and rituals for their sin.  The priest would go into the Holy Place once a year with the blood of the sacrifice to cleanse the people of their sins.

Today in many cultures there are religions that depend on rituals and priests to obtain forgiveness of sins for themselves and others.

The writer of Hebrews brings home the wonderful point that Jesus is our High Priest and He entered once for all into the Holy Place, that is, the presence of God the Father, with His own blood as sacrifice for our sins to obtain our redemption.

In fact, the author of Hebrews calls the sacrifices and rituals that people did back then and do now, "dead works".  Those who do them are in effect crucifying Christ again and again.

Hebrews 9:24-28 For Christ has not entered the holy places made with hands, which are copies of the true, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us; not that He should offer Himself often, as the high priest enters the Most Holy Place every year with blood of another-- He then would have had to suffer often since the foundation of the world; but now, once at the end of the ages, He has appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself. And as it is appointed for men to die once, but after this the judgment,so Christ was offered once to bear the sins of many. To those who eagerly wait for Him He will appear a second time, apart from sin, for salvation.
(NKJV)