5. When Christ came into the world, he said to God,“Sacrifices and offeringsare not what you want,but you have given memy body.
6. No, you are not pleasedwith animal sacrificesand offerings for sin.”
7. Then Christ said,“And so, my God,I have come to dowhat you want,as the Scriptures say.”
8. The Law teaches that offerings and sacrifices must be made because of sin. But why did Christ mention these things and say that God did not want them?
9. Well, it was to do away with offerings and sacrifices and to replace them. That is what he meant by saying to God, “I have come to do what you want.”
10. So we are made holy because Christ obeyed God and offered himself once for all.
11. The priests do their work each day, and they keep on offering sacrifices that can never take away sins.
12. But Christ offered himself as a sacrifice that is good for ever. Now he is sitting at God's right side,
13. and he will stay there until his enemies are put under his power.
14. By his one sacrifice he has for ever set free from sin the people he brings to God.
15. The Holy Spirit also speaks of this by telling us that the Lord said,
16. “When the time comes,I will make an agreementwith them.I will write my lawson their minds and hearts.
17. Then I will forgetabout their sinsand no longer remembertheir evil deeds.”
18. When sins are forgiven, there is no more need to offer sacrifices.
19. My friends, the blood of Jesus gives us courage to enter the most holy place
20. by a new way that leads to life! And this way takes us through the curtain that is Christ himself.