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To set the context, let’s remember in 9:1-10, the author talks about a superior sanctuary. Now this superior sanctuary is kind of backwards and forwards. This sanctuary discussion points back to what we talked about in chapter 9:1-10 and even earlier, but we are not done with this topic. Certain aspects of the superior sanctuary will also kind of bleed its way through the section ahead of us.

Honestly, a number of things in chapter 9 are very repetitive in a number of ways. The writer is going to hammer this thing home that Jesus is a superior sacrifice. Jesus is in a superior sanctuary, under the auspices of the New Covenant, a better covenant. The writer will emphasize these things, sometimes very obviously, sometimes more subtly but they will do that. So the superior sanctuary that we talked about last time will continue to pick up threads of that as we go through there. So the idea points back to what we have already studied but also points us forward.

The main thrust of these verses is the eternal redemption secured by Christ Jesus. In this paragraph the climactic verse is Hebrews 9:14. Four superiorities of Christ are set forth here: (1) Christ offered (active voice) Himself; animals were offered in the O.T (v. 12). (2) The Lord Jesus Christ was without blemish inwardly as well as externally; animals were without blemish only externally (v. 12). (3) Christ offered Himself through His eternal spirit; animals could not do this (v. 13). (4) Jesus cleanses our consciences (v. 14; cf. v. 9).