1. The law is only an unclear picture of the good things coming in the future. It is not a perfect picture of the real things. The people under the law offered the same sacrifices every year. These sacrifices can never make perfect those who come near to worship God.
2. If the law could make them perfect, the sacrifices would have already stopped. The worshipers would be made clean, and they would no longer feel guilty for their sins.
3. These sacrifices remind them of 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 do not want sacrifices and offerings.But you have prepared a body for me.
6. You do not ask for burnt offeringsand offerings to take away sins.
7. Then I said, ‘Look, I have come.It is written about me in the book.My God, I have come to do what you want.’” Psalm 40:6-8