A Single Sacrifice
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A Single Sacrifice

Hebrews 10:11–18  (ID: 2817)

Hebrews 10 helps us to understand Jesus’ cry from the cross, “It is finished!” At His crucifixion, Alistair Begg reminds us, Jesus “got” it all—all our sin, our alienation, and our rebellion. God became man; He took our nature that He might bear our punishment as our substitute. In Christ, we have been fully ransomed, restored, healed, and forgiven. When we remember our sin, then, we must also remember that Jesus dealt with it all at the cross.


11And every priest stands daily at his service, offering repeatedly the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins. 12But when Christ2 had offered for all time a single sacrifice for sins, he sat down at the right hand of God, 13waiting from that time until his enemies should be made a footstool for his feet. 14For by a single offering he has perfected for all time those who are being sanctified.

15And the Holy Spirit also bears witness to us; for after saying,

16“This is the covenant that I will make with them

after those days, declares the Lord:

I will put my laws on their hearts,

and write them on their minds,”

17then he adds,

“I will remember their sins and their lawless deeds no more.”

18Where there is forgiveness of these, there is no longer any offering for sin.

Copyright © 2024, Alistair Begg. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

Scripture taken from The Holy Bible, English Standard Version. Copyright ©2001 by Crossway Bibles, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved. Text provided by the Crossway Bibles Web Service.

Alistair Begg
Alistair Begg is Senior Pastor at Parkside Church in Cleveland, Ohio, and the Bible teacher on Truth For Life, which is heard on the radio and online around the world.