New Testament: Hebrews 10.2-3

To read the Bible in a year, read Hebrews 10.1-23 on November 13, In the year of our Lord Christ 2024

By Don Ruhl 

After stating that the sacrifices of the old levitical priesthood could not make the worshipers perfect, the writer of Hebrews said: “For then would they not have ceased to be offered? For the worshipers, once purified, would have had no more consciousness of sins. But in those sacrifices there is a reminder of sins every year” (Hebrews 10.2-3). 

Why did the levitical priests keep offering sacrifices? They kept offering those sacrifices because the ones they offered the day before lacked the power to do what needed to be done on the new day. Therefore, day after day, year after year, they kept on offering various sacrifices. 

However, our High Priest only made one sacrifice. He does not have to keep offering it over and over again, because the power it had yesterday, it retains for whatever is needed today. 

What things do people do to alleviate their guilt? Oh, they try many things, but if the former sacrifices, which God commanded, could not take away the guilt of sin, nothing man invents today can do the job. There is only one way to find forgiveness and that is through the sacrifice of Jesus Christ. 

Questions from today’s reading and devotional: 

• How many of the Levitical sacrifices can you name? 
• Have you tried to alleviate your guilt through a means other than the blood of Christ? 

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Don preaches with the Savage Street Church of Christ in Grants Pass, Oregon. 

Listen to his sermons here: GrantsPassChurchOfChrist.com