The Christ’s temple.
“Therefore, when Christ came into the world, he said: ‘Sacrifice and offering you did not desire, but a body you prepared for me; with burnt offerings and sin-offerings you were not pleased. Then I said, Here I am – it is written about me in the scroll – I have come to do your will, my God.” Hebrews 10:5–7. The Apostle Paul applies these verses to Jesus Christ. Paul quoted the Septuagint, the Bible Christians have used for centuries.
“But a body you prepared for me” is a correct statement concerning Jesus Christ because he is the High Priest in the order of Melchizedek, not Aaron. “The LORD has sworn and will not change his mind: ‘You are a priest forever, in the order of Melchizedek.’” Psalm 110:4. Melchizedek was a priest to the God Most High, and he officiated in his body, not in a human-made temple. Similarly, Jesus, as the High Priest, fulfilled his mission as the Redeemer and Savior of the world while in the body here on earth. “All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation. That God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting people’s sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation.” 2 Corinthians 5:18, 19. God accomplished this by placing our sins on Jesus, the barrier that separated us from God the Father. “God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.” 2 Corinthians 5:21. Jesus was made sin but not a sinner.
The phrase “I desire to do your will, O my God,” in Hebrews 10:7, refers to what? What was the will of God? “For my Father’s will is that everyone who looks to the Son and believes in him shall have eternal life, and I will raise them up at the last day.” John 6:40. Where are we to look on the Son? “Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the wilderness, so the Son of Man must be lifted up, that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life in him.” John 3:14. The will of God has been accomplished once and for all. Therefore, all should look to the Son of God on the cross at Golgotha. By trusting Jesus Christ that he has accomplished everything needed for our salvation, we have eternal life in him, here and now.
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