The Thursday after the Nineteenth Sunday after Trinity Sunday
Posted on October 30, 2025 by under
Scripture: Hebrews 10:1-10 (NKJV)
10:1 For the law, having a shadow of the good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with these same sacrifices, which they offer continually year by year, make those who approach perfect. 2 For then would they not have ceased to be offered? For the worshipers, once purified, would have had no more consciousness of sins. 3 But in those sacrifices there is a reminder of sins every year. 4 For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and goats could take away sins.
5 Therefore, when He came into the world, He said:
“Sacrifice and offering You did not desire, but a body You have prepared for Me.
6 “In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin You had no pleasure.
7 “Then I said, ‘Behold, I have come—in the volume of the book it is written of Me—to do Your will, O God.’”
8 Previously saying, “Sacrifice and offering, burnt offerings, and offerings for sin You did not desire, nor had pleasure in them” (which are offered according to the law), 9 then He said, “Behold, I have come to do Your will, O God.” He takes away the first that He may establish the second. 10 By that will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
Devotion
The Law, together with the Levitical priesthood to which it was closely linked under the Mosaic system, are only a shadow pointing to Christ. The sacrifices prescribed by the Law prefigured the Lamb of God’s ultimate sacrifice. In verse four, it is made clear that an animal cannot possibly be an adequate substitute for a human being, who is made in God’s image. (This reality flies in the face of today’s delusions of animals being equal to man.) Thus, these sacrifices were repeated year after year, the very repetition bearing testimony that the perfect, sin-removing sacrifice had not yet been offered.
In verses five and six, the different terms used for Levitical sacrifices represent four of the five types of offerings prescribed by the Mosaic Law (Leviticus 1-7), namely, fellowship, grain, burnt, and sin. Verse nine emphasizes Christ’s setting aside of the first sacrifices to establish the second. His perfect sacrifice, offered in complete submission, supersedes and therefore replaces all previous sacrifices. The Law has been fulfilled in Christ. The sanctification presented in verse ten is ‘passive perfect’ (completed by God). We are sanctified by God, by Christ and the Holy Spirit, through faith, by His grace.
Collect: O Almighty and most Merciful God, of Thy bountiful goodness keep us, we beseech Thee, from all things that may hurt us; that we, being ready, both in body and soul, may cheerfully accomplish those things that Thou wouldest have done; through Jesus Christ, Thy Son, our Lord, Who liveth and reigneth with Thee and the Holy Ghost, ever One God, world without end. Amen.
Scripture taken from the New King James Version®. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
