This is the second part of a previous article with regards to the sacrificial system. We first looked at how the sacrificial system was a type to the antitype, who is Christ. Now we will look at how the author of Hebrews sums up for us in showing that Christ has put an end to sacrifices. This article will be written in a commentary format.

“Since the law has only a shadow of the good things to come, and not the actual form of those realities, it can never perfect the worshipers by the same sacrifices they continually offer year after year” (vs. 1). The author of Hebrews starts off by telling us that the sacrificial system was only a “shadow” or “type” of a coming reality. Sacrifices were not a means to the end but pointed to something greater and more marvelous. These sacrifices could never make perfect the worshiper. Read the rest of this entry »

Romans 3:21-26

How is it that God will once and for all deal with the sins of His people? D. M. Lloyd-Jones in a small booklet with the same title as this article states, “God at one and the same time remains just and can justify the ungodly that believe in Christ. That was the tremendous problem – how can God remain holy and just, and deal with sin as He says He is going to, and yet forgive the sinner?” The apostle Paul gives us an answer in Romans 3:21-26. It is through the cross that God will display His righteousness. “He made the One who did not know sin to be sin for us, so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him” (2 Corinthians 5:21).

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