The Final Sacrifice

Above when he said, Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and offering for sin thou wouldest not, neither hadst pleasure therein; which are offered by the law; Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second. By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. Hebrews 10:8-10

Over the years, I've listened to various Bible teachers, some of them Jewish Messianic, who still hold to keeping the Old Testament sacraments and laws, and returning to animal sacrifices. I'm not going to argue with these people. In this post, I'm going to let the Bible speak for itself. It will clearly let everybody know where I stand on the subject. 
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I'll just ask these questions to these people who still believe animal sacrifices are an answer to their sin problem- How can any animal atone for your sins, anymore than they did in the days of Moses? What have you got, that can cover your sins?

And, the next question-if you won't believe Jesus Christ is your Messiah-who will you believe? Throughout the gospels He proclaimed He was the Messiah, John the Baptist proclaimed him to be-and gave his life for his message, and his disciples did as well. Myriads of saints down through history have died in faith, believing in Christ; why? Because He is risen from the dead, and coming again, it was witnessed by many and historically accounted for. The tomb is empty. If you won't believe Him-I can tell you, anyone else you'd believe, is a fraud.

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Christ's Sacrifice Once for All

​Heb 10:1 For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect. 
Heb 10:2 For then would they not have ceased to be offered? because that the worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins. 
Heb 10:3 But in those sacrifices there is a remembrance again made of sins every year. 
Heb 10:4 For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins. 
Heb 10:5 Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me: 
Heb 10:6 In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure. 
Heb 10:7 Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God. 
Heb 10:8 Above when he said, Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and offering for sin thou wouldest not, neither hadst pleasure therein; which are offered by the law; 
Heb 10:9 Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second. 
Heb 10:10 By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. 
Heb 10:11 And every priest standeth daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins: 
Heb 10:12 But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God; 
Heb 10:13  From henceforth expecting till his enemies be made his footstool. 
Heb 10:14 For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified. 
Heb 10:15 Whereof the Holy Ghost also is a witness to us: for after that he had said before, 
Heb 10:16 This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them; 
Heb 10:17 And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more. 
Heb 10:18 Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin. 

The Full Assurance of Faith

Heb 10:19 Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus, 
Heb 10:20 By a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh; 
Heb 10:21 And having an high priest over the house of God; 
Heb 10:22 Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water. 

Now, this will end with a few more verses to give added emphasis, and references to many more.

Eph 5:2 And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour. 
"Christ is here expressly called a “Sacrifice” - The usual word in the Scriptures to denote a proper sacrifice. A sacrifice was an offering made to God by killing an animal and burning it on an altar, designed to make atonement for sin. It always implied the “killing” of the animal as an acknowledgment of the sinner that he deserved to die. It was the giving up of “life,” which was supposed to reside in the “blood” (see the notes on Rom_3:25), and hence it was necessary that “blood” should be shed. Christ was such a sacrifice; and his love was shown in his being willing that his blood should be shed to save people.
After he had offered one sacrifice for sins - By dying on the cross. This he did but once; this could not be repeated; and need not be repeated, for it was sufficient for the sins of the world. " Albert Barnes

Heb 9:11 But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building; 
Heb 9:12 Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us. 
Heb 9:13 For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh: 
Heb 9:14 How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God? 
Heb 9:15 And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance. 

Rom 3:25 Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God; 

1Jn 2:1 My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous: 
1Jn 2:2 And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.

Additional scripture references for your own personal research and study: Act 2:23-36, Act 4:7-12  Act_13:38-39 Heb_7:27; Mat_20:28; Eph_2:5, Eph_5:2; Tit_2:14; 1Pe_2:24, 1Pe_3:18 2Co_5:21; 1Pe_1:19, 1Pe_2:22; 1Jn_3:5 1Jn_2:2, 1Jn_4:10 1Pe_1:18-20; Rev_13:8 

Finally, I'm going to end this with Paul's exhortation in Galatians-it will seal the matter for me:

Justified by Faith

​Gal 2:15 We who are Jews by nature, and not sinners of the Gentiles, 
Gal 2:16 Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified. 
Gal 2:17 But if, while we seek to be justified by Christ, we ourselves also are found sinners, is therefore Christ the minister of sin? God forbid. 
Gal 2:18  For if I build again the things which I destroyed, I make myself a transgressor. 
Gal 2:19  For I through the law am dead to the law, that I might live unto God. 
Gal 2:20 I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me. 
Gal 2:21 I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain. 

Now, below is a good commentary on the high privileges the believer in Christ has-that most know nothing of-and do not appropriate for themselves. If they did, the Churches, and the world would be in a very different state today.

The Christian’s Exalted Privilege
THE HOLIEST PLACE

​1. The special residence of the Deity.-“and having an High Priest over the house of God, let us draw near.” When we consider this High Priest, what He is, what He has done, and what He is continuing to do, we have encouragement inexpressible. He is God and man. He is our Brother—our Righteousness—our Sanctification—our Redemption. Christ is our great High Priest.
2. The scene of holy services.-In actual historical fact the glorious veil of the temple has been rent in twain from the top to the bottom: as a matter of spiritual fact, which is far more important to us, the separating legal ordinance is abolished. Jesus has made thee nigh, as nigh to God as even He Himself is. This rending of the veil signified, also, the removal of the separating sin. Pardon, which removes sin, and justification, which brings righteousness, make up a deed of clearance so complete that nothing now divides the sinner from his reconciled God. The Judge is now the Father: He, who once must necessarily have condemned, is found justly absolving and accepting. In this double sense the veil is rent; the separating ordinance is abrogated, and the separating sin is forgiven.
3. The residence of holy beings.-Let us draw near, the altar of incense, the open veil, and to God who dwelleth in the Holiest of all.
4. From this place those blessings are communicated that make us holy.
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THE WAY OF ACCESS.
1. A new way.-The way is new, not the old road of outward sacrifice, but the devotion of willing hearts.
2. A living way.-It is also a living way, the path of a living spirit, not a routine of mechanical obedience; by quickening in us His own spiritual life Christ brings us near to God, and unless His spirit live in us we cannot follow in His way.
3. A consecrated way.-This way is said to be “consecrated for us through the veil, that is to say, His flesh.” Now, every obstacle is removed; and every true believer in the Lord Jesus Christ is warranted to enter for himself into the immediate presence of God, and there transact all the concerns of his own soul.

​THE MANNER OF APPROACH.
1. With boldness.
2. With a true heart.
3. In full assurance of faith.
4. With hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience.
5. With bodies washed with pure water.
Application. Learn:
1. The gospel method of salvation. The blood of Jesus. Its expensiveness and its preciousness.
2. There must be personal application before we can enjoy its benefits.
3. All who thus personally approach shall obtain mercy.
4. How shall they escape who neglect so great salvation? (J. Burns, D. D.)

A Living Sacrifice
As His People-Let Us Follow In His Steps

​Rom 12:1 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. 
Rom 12:2  And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.