The Justifying Grace of His Obedience

Hebrews 10:5-10 

5 Therefore, when He came into the world, He said:  “Sacrifice and offering You did not desire, But a body You have prepared for Me. 6 In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin You had no pleasure. 7 Then I said, ‘Behold, I have come—In the volume of the book it is written of Me—To do Your will, O God.’ ”  8 Previously saying, “Sacrifice and offering, burnt offerings, and offerings for sin You did not desire, nor had pleasure in them” (which are offered according to the law), 9 then He said, “Behold, I have come to do Your will, O God.” He takes away the first that He may establish the second. 10 By that will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

Jesus Christ came into the world in a body, as both man and God, to do God’s will as planned and written in the scriptures.  He did not come to make continuous offerings and sacrifices to atone for His sins and ours; He had no sin to atone for, and our sin’s covering required more than sacrifices of the animals created for us.  He came to do the will of God by sacrificing Himself to fulfill the Law, not to redeem us by it but by Himself.  We futilely attempt to justify ourselves in keeping commandments, but always will fail no matter the effort.  He as God obeyed all the Law blamelessly to do the Father’s will as His Son for our justification in His righteousness by His obedience.  Therefore we have been made holy already in Christ by the offering of Himself in our place, a one time offering never needing to be repeated because it was perfect and complete.  The Son came to do the Father’s will by the obedience and sacrifice we could not do.  This is justifying grace.