year after year” could “make perfect those who draw near to worship … would they not have stopped being offered?” (10:1–2). By way of contrast to the temporary value of the Old Testament animal sacrifices, the Lord Jesus is “the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world” (John 1:29). As the complete, final sacrifice for sin, Christ has now “appeared once for all at the end of the ages to do away with sin by the sacrifice of himself” (Heb. 9:26). Because He “was sacrificed once to take away