Hebrews 8:26-27 “For it was fitting that we should have such a high priest, holy, innocent, undefiled, separated from sinners and exalted above the heavens; Who does not need daily, like those high priests, to offer up sacrifices, first for His own sins and then for the sins of the people, because this He did once for all when He offered up Himself.” In reading Leviticus, it details the different type of offerings for different sins. The priests had to perform specific rituals for God to accept the sacrifices. The priest had to first be cleansed of his own sins and then for the sins of the people. As I read through the first few chapters of Leviticus, I wondered at all that had to be done continually for the sins to be forgiven. I then was led to Hebrews to get an understanding of the sacrifice Jesus gave once and for all people. Jesus intercedes for us. Hebrews 9:14 “how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without a blemish to God, cleanse your consciousness from dead works to serve the living God?” It is summed up in Hebrews 10:17-18 “and their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more. Now where there is forgiveness of these things there is no longer any offering for sin.” The forgiveness of sins once dependent on a priest who first had to offer up a sacrifice for his own sins, we now can “draw near with a sincere heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.” “We have confidence to enter the holy place by the blood of Jesus.” (Hebrews 10:19-22) When we accept Jesus and believe that He died for us, we have a great priest over the house of God. No longer are we dependent on hoping God accepts the sacrifice and forgives us our sins. The perfect sacrifice was accepted and Jesus sat down at the right hand of God. It says in Hebrews 9:12 “and not through the blood of goats and calves, but through His own blood, He entered the holy place once, for all have obtained eternal redemption.”