Scripture: Hebrews 10:1-25
We have seen how the old system of sacrifices under the law of Moses was simply a sketch, a shadow, a dim preview of the true form of the good things to come. The mold holds the shape, but it’s the thing that will fill the mold for which everyone is waiting. The Old Covenant, the old system, was the mold holding the shape of the good things to come. Jesus filled it; now the mold is no longer necessary. The Old Covenant still teaches us very important things about God and His expectations for His people. Paul said it was God-breathed (2 Timothy 3:16) and acted as a guardian or teacher to lead us to Christ (Galatians 3:24). There is a timeless form to godliness, a shapeliness (to use the language of how agape love is described) that was preserved by the Old Covenant as it waited for the mold to be filled with the perfect expression of it.
