No More Offering for Sin

Hebrews 8:3-4 states that a priest must have something to offer, and that Christ must also have such an offering different from that of the Aaronic priesthood, since the law already assigned those sacrifices to those priests.

As believers, the Scriptures proclaim we are all priests unto God, and our assigned offerings are praise, thanksgiving, worship, obedience, and acts of charity toward the brethren. Those offerings are well-pleasing unto the Lord.

But Christ also must have an offering. Hebrews teaches that His offering was better than Aarons', and that He presented it not in earthly tabernacles but in the heavenly place.

Christ is a priest of a better covenant with better promises. His sacrifice was His own body offered up at Calvary to save His people, and He presented that offering in Glory for us as our great High Priest.

Eight times, Hebrews stresses that Christ's sacrifice was offered only once, and that it forever purged our sins and made the Saints perfect. The argument is that since it was perfect and accomplished the everlasting redemption of Christ's people, there is no more need nor even possibility that it might be repeated.

The examples of Korah and Uzziah show the danger of usurping the duties of God's ordained Priest. This is the great evil of the Roman Catholic and Anglican priesthood - that it either has no legitimate offering, or worse that it claims to repeat Christ's offering for sin.

Indeed, the Roman system claims that the offering of the mass is a "propitiatory" sacrifice for sin, which is utter blasphemy.

Only Christ was authorized by God to present to Him the unique offering for sin, God's Lamb slain at Calvary!