Hebrews 9:8-14

The Messiah's great sacrifice Hebrews 9:8-14: The tabernacle, with the meats and drinks, and divers washings, and physical ordinances, was a type of the reformation that would come only through Jesus. Christ had a more excellent tabernacle than the Jewish priest. Those priests entered the tabernacle often, Jesus entered heaven once. Those priests entered the tabernacle with the blood of goats and calves. He entered heaven with His own blood thereby obtaining eternal redemption for us.

Those Old Testament sacrifices made man holy so far as the flesh or body was concerned. They did not provide redemption. Eternal redemption was the fruit of Christ's sacrifice. His sacrifice was sufficient to purge the conscience from dead works. It reached to the very soul and conscience of sinful man. The blood of Jesus is sufficient to enable us to serve the living God. His sacrifice purged away the guilt which separated man from his God. Only through the blood of Jesus can guilty mankind be delivered from the dread of the wrath to come.