Lesson 4958

 (Lesson 4958) (08-28-25) Hebrews 10:1-4 

   “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.” 

 

   Today’s quote teaches that the old Hebrew law, with its often-repeated sacrifices year after year, could never make sinners perfect in the sight of God. If those sacrifices could have truly removed sin, sin would have ceased, because worshipers would no longer have been conscious of thier sins. Instead, those offerings served as a continual reminder of sin. Paul said, in Romans 7:7, “What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I WOULD NOT HAVE KNOWN SIN, BUT BY THE LAW: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.” Today’s lesson makes clear that it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins, showing that no sacrifice other than Jesus Christ can justify sin. ~