February 17, 2026
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Reading along with us in Job & Hebrews? Here’s today’s reading:
Hebrews 10 (NIV)
Christ’s Sacrifice Once for All
1 The law is only a shadow of the good things that are coming—not the realities themselves. For this reason it can never, by the same sacrifices repeated endlessly year after year, make perfect those who draw near to worship. 2 Otherwise, would they not have stopped being offered?……Continue Reading
Jesus, the one perfect sacrifice! The one way to come to God! God loved us enough to send His son to die and make a way. Now we believe and draw near to Him, we walk in and deepen our faith, and we support and encourage one another to do the same. In times of trouble we remember not just this sacrifice but all the other times He saw us through a hard time and know He will do it again. The new covenant is about the work He did and the life we now live in service and gratitude for that free gift!
Great picture of what it’s like to be stuck in religion going through certain ceremonies of bringing sacrifices time after time. all that does is continue to point you to guilt in being incomplete, but I love verse12. but when this priest had offered for all time one sacrifice for sins, he sat down at the right hand of God. probably my biggest pet peeve in religion, and some churches is the legalism or the fact that you have to do something else besides the sacrifice that Jesus made. what they’re saying was, it wasn’t enough to forgive their sins. adding anything to the sacrifice or taking anything from it is denying the validity of it to gain salvation through good deeds is basically rejecting the significance of Christ dying and the power of the Holy Spirit’s work
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Praise God and Thank You Jesus.
Awesome chapter.
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“And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds, not giving up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another—and all the more as you see the Day approaching.”
Hebrews 10:24-25 NIV
https://bible.com/bible/111/heb.10.25.NIV
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Thank you Jesus!!
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We have the perfect sacrifice in what Jesus did for us no more animal sacrifices. Jesus made a way to God, we need to come to him in faith and obedience to ask for forgiveness.
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It makes perfect sense that the blood of an animal cannot take away the sins of a person, and that is why they were repeated day after day and year after year. But having lived in that system who better than the Jews to recognize the work that God was doing through Jesus to provide a better, more effective and secure method. See the sinless, God/man can be the offering that is done once for all. And yet having received so great a forgiveness, what is a fitting response? It is to forsake the very sin that Jesus came to die for and yet still trust in the sacrifice of Jesus for forgiveness when we fail to do so. To return to animal sacrifices to compensate for sin makes Jesus’ sacrifice seem ineffective. But to falter in faith and not persevere in obedience doesn’t make sense either. Both discredit the cross (and Jesus’ resurrection) and rob it of its power. So let’s not do that….
By ONE sacrifice God has made us perfect forever. Our sins and lawless acts he will not remember. So when we are tempted to dwell on past sin with nagging regret, we can remember that God forgets so we can too. Instead, draw near to God with a sincere heart and a strong assurance that are forgiven. And let’s not belong to those who are cowardly and are destroyed, but let us continually be in fellowship with our family – those who have faith and are saved.
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“then He said, “Behold, I have come to do Your will, O God.” He takes away the first that He may establish the second. By that will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
Of how much worse punishment, do you suppose, will he be thought worthy who has trampled the Son of God underfoot, counted the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified a common thing, and insulted the Spirit of grace? But we are not of those who draw back to perdition, but of those who believe to the saving of the soul.”
Hebrews 10:9-10, 29, 39 NKJV
Paul talks about the sanctifying work of Christ on the cross…the active work in us that is ongoing. We cannot revert (we or the Jews) to an old system, but rather we must move forward continuing in faith for our justification AND our sanctification. To go back is an insult, trampling, of Christs work on the cross.
I think the authorship of Paul is confirmed here, as he mentions their common “chains”: “for you had compassion on me in my chains, and joyfully accepted the plundering of your goods, knowing that you have a better and an enduring possession for yourselves in heaven.”
Hebrews 10:34 NKJV