1. The law gave us only an unclear picture of the good things coming in the future. The law is not a perfect picture of the real things. The law tells people to offer the same sacrifices every year. Those who come to worship God continue to offer those sacrifices. But the law can never make them perfect.
2. If the law could make people perfect, those sacrifices would have already stopped. They would already be clean from their sins, and they would not still feel guilty.
3. But that’s not what happens. Their sacrifices make them remember their sins every year,
4. because it is not possible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.
5. So when Christ came into the world he said, “You don’t want sacrifices and offerings, but you have prepared a body for me.