Hebrews 10:5 “Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me:”
Why was it necessary for the Son of God to be born and to live as a human man? In this passage we are told “a body hast thou [God The Father] prepared me”; that is, God The Father sent His Beloved Son to be born of a woman and live as a man. According to God’s Holy Justice, the Children of God had to be made just, righteous, and holy in order to be taken into Eternal Heaven. Mankind could not render themselves just, righteous, and holy because, in Genesis Chapter Three, all humanity fell into a state of sinful unworthiness, unfit for Eternal Heaven; from which they could not recover themselves. Paul tells us that “all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God” (Romans 3:23) and “by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned” (Romans 5:12). Therefore, our only Hope is in Jesus Christ; for, “Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.” (Acts 4:12). According to God’s Judicial Requisites, the sacrifices under the Old Testament Law Service could not save anyone to Eternal Heaven because they were offered by imperfect man; “For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:” (Romans 8:3). But the “sacrifices” under the Old Testament Law Service were a prophetic type of the coming Son Of God. God The Son came into this world to accomplish His Father’s “will”; “By the which will we are sanctified [made holy] through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.” (Romans 5:11-12). That is, so perfect was His Sacrifice, that His one “offering” of His Precious “body” paid the sin-debt “once for all”; that is, His one Sacrifice paid the sin-debt for “all” of God’s Children, rendering them “all” just, righteous, and holy before God The Father; thus, fit for Eternal Heaven. Our Lord put it this way, “And this is the Father’s will which hath sent me, that of all which he hath given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day.” (John 6:39).