"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. For then would they not have ceased to be offered? because that the worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins. But in those sacrifices there is a remembrance again made of sins every year. For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins. Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me: In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure. Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God. Above when he said, Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and offering for sin thou wouldest not, neither hadst pleasure therein; which are offered by the law; Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second. By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all."
Today's quote is yet another confirmation for the security of the believer. Herein, Paul confirmed that neither obedience to the law, nor abstinence from sin can accomplish a permanent spiritual cleansing. That fact was proven over and over throughout the Old Testament.
With no exceptions God required a blood sacrifice for the remittance of any sin. As Paul said, no amount of animal blood, no matter how many times it was offered, could ever remit all sin permanently. Therefore, Jesus, a perfect sinless human man, the Son of God, was sent and provided a perfect sacrifice to be offered only once for all sin for those who place their faith in Him.
There will be no more sacrifices for sin, Jesus is the last: "If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame." (Hebrews 6:6)
Jesus will not be crucified again for those who fail to believe in Him.~
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