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Day 37

"Behold, I have come to do Your will, O God..."

Text: Hebrews 10:9

AN IMPORTANT AND RELEVANT TEXT

The Book of Hebrews offers a significant text that is relevant to our appreciation of how Jesus understood the will of God.

“In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin
You had no pleasure.
Then I said, ‘Behold, I have come-
In the volume of the book it is written of Me-
To do Your will, O God.'”
Hebrews 10:6-7

1. “In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin You had no pleasure”

a) Jesus must have pondered how He could address the sin-problem.
b) In the Old Testament, burnt offerings and sacrifices were the norm.
c) He understood that God had no pleasure in them.
d) They were at best symbolic.

2. “Then I said, ‘Behold, I have come- in the volume of the book it is written of Me'”

a) The volume of the book
i) This is a reference to the Scriptures in general.
ii) Isaiah would be one of the references to the Messiah.
iii) Jesus understood His mission on earth.
b) Knowledge of the Scriptures
i) Jesus would have had a deep understanding of the Scriptures.
ii) He would have known what the LORD God expected of Him as the Messiah-Servant.

3. “To do Your will, O God”

a) Within the Scriptures the will of God was disclosed.
b) Jesus would first have to fathom that will.
c) He must then embrace that will.
d) Finally, He must seek to obey and fulfil that will of God.

AN IMPORTANT COMMENT

The author made a very significant comment on the significance of Jesus’ fulfilment of God’s will.

“By that will we have been sanctified through the offering
of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.”
Hebrews 10:10

In and through the sacrifice of the Lord Jesus we stand sanctified before God, once and for all!