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Hebrews: Christ—Perfect Sacrifice, Perfect Priest is unavailable, but you can change that!

The Book of Hebrews is grounded in the work of the Levitical priesthood. The generation of Hebrews receiving this letter had practiced sacrifices at the temple in Jerusalem for a lifetime. Hebrews emphasizes the superiority of Christ's once-for-all, perfect sacrifice over the repeated, imperfect Levitical sacrifices. It shows us how to have a better life in Christ.

purpose, how much better will Christ’s New Covenant, powerful and perfect, serve its purpose. The new not only has a better purpose, but accomplishes its purpose in a better way, a perfect way. The purpose of the old sacrifice was to symbolize, externally, the cleansing of sin. It accomplished this purpose. The purpose of the new sacrifice, however, was to cleanse actually, internally (where sin really exists). It accomplished its purpose in a superior way.… “The former priests cleaned up the outside,