Christ's Sacrifice Perfects Us

Hebrews 10 informs us that the reason Christ sat down, is because by His one sacrifice for our sin, He has forever perfected all those that He sanctified!

All those who are sanctified by the sacrifice of Jesus by the will of God, are thereby made perfect forever. Those who were, by the will of God, given to Christ to be saved, He has saved by sanctifying and perfecting us by His sacrifice for our sin.

Men were sanctified ceremonially and temporally by the animal sacrifices of Aaron, but none of them were ever perfected by those offerings.

Perfection means our sins have been taken away by Christ's blood, forgiven and cleansed, and we have been declared righteous for Jesus' sake! God has been propitiated by the sacrifice of Jesus, so that there is no wrath from God for our sins anymore.

Previously, Hebrews has used this word "perfected," to now draw this contrast between the law and the animal sacrifices, and the sacrifice of Christ.

Hebrews 7 tells us that the law made nothing perfect. That's because no man can be justified by keeping the law, for no one but Jesus can keep it.

In Hebrews 9, we are told that the animal sacrifices could not make the poor sinner perfect in his conscience. Though they might cleanse men temporarily and ceremonially, yet in their hearts and before God, they were still guilty for their sins.

And in Hebrews 10, we are told that those sacrifices, though they were offered repeatedly, could never make poor sinners perfect.

But now, by the blood of Jesus, we who trust in Him have been perfected forever!

That is why Christ's offering is one time only – because a sacrifice that makes us perfect before God, need never be repeated.