No More Sacrifice for Sin!

God comforts us by the oath He made to Christ, appointing Him our high priest forever after the order of Melchizedek.

In Hebrews 10:18, the writer completes his argument and ties it all up with a neat bow. He calls as his final witness the testimony of the Holy Ghost in the Old Testament.

The Holy Ghost is witness to the fact that Christ perfects all His people by one offering on the cross. That text is found in Jeremiah 31, where the Spirit disclosed the New Covenant for God's people.

God's people had broken the old covenant of salvation by law keeping. Therefore, the Holy Ghost promised that one day, God would perfect His people Himself.

God would do so by bringing in His new and better covenant, by which He promised to forgive His people's sins, and remember them against us no more!

The writer of Hebrews is careful to tie up the argument he advanced early in chapter 10: the continuance of animal sacrifices means our sins are still remembered by God against us.

But now Christ's sacrifice takes away all remembrance of the sin of His people, just as the Holy Ghost and Christ had promised!

Finally, in Hebrews 10:18, the writer ties up the last strand of his glorious proof: we know animal sacrifices never took away sin, because if they had, the offerings would have ceased being made.

Now, he declares, that where sins are truly forgiven by the sacrifice of Christ, there can be no more offering for sin!

This is why Christ was so kind to poor sinners during His ministry, and why He so urgently preached the Gospel to those sinners.

God was remembering the sins of those poor tax collectors and sinners that Jesus ate with. Christ knew their only hope was His Gospel!