10:5-7 When did Christ say this?
10:5-7 When did Christ say this?
This is quoted from Psa 40:6-8 (CP Psa 40:6-8). This is not teaching that God wants obedience before sacrifice, as some think, although sacrifice is contrasted here with obedience to the will of God.
But the worth of Christ's offering of Himself does not lie simply in obedience to God's will. It is that Christ's offering of Himself is the true and final offering for sin, because it is the sacrifice, which according to prophecy, God desired to be made (CP He 10:8-13).
The word "above" in V 8 refers back to V5. The writer shows the incompetence of animal sacrifices to satisfy the will of God. It is only when Christ offers Himself as the sacrifice that God takes away the Old Testament and replaces it with the new.
This is the argument of the book of Hebrews. It is only Christ's sacrifice of Himself that satisfied God's justice and provided permanent sanctification, or the setting apart of believers from sin, for God (CP He 7:22-25; 9:11-12, 24-26; 10:14).
See also comments on He 7:25, 8:6, 9:1-10.