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Psalm chapter 40 verses 6 through 10.

In sacrifice and offering you have not delighted, but you have given me an open ear.

Burnt offering and sin offering you have not required.

Then I said, behold I have come In the scroll of the book it is written of me. I delight

to do your will, oh my God. Your law is within my heart. I have told the glad news of deliverance in the great

congregation. Behold I have not restrained my lips as you know Lord. I have

not hidden your deliverance within my heart. I have spoken of your faithfulness and

your salvation. I have not concealed your steadfast love and your faithfulness

from the great congregation. Follow these verses.

Give us a picture from the very beginning of the sacrifices and offerings, the system

that God had set up among his people in the Old Testament to atone for to cover over

sin.

That the price of sin, death, might be paid through this sacrifice, this offering, and the wrath and judgment

of God averted among his people.

But we know in the book of Hebrews later makes clear that these sacrifices all throughout the Old

Testament were ultimately insufficient to pay the full price for people's sin against God. But that is the beauty. Even as Psalm, chapter 40, talks about

one who delights to do the will of God, the law of God written on their heart. This is a description of the one who

could be a perfect sacrifice, a perfect offering for us.

This is the beauty of what we celebrate at Christmas that Jesus has come and his delight was to do the will of God perfectly, without error, without sin, the law of God, written on his heart and obeyed in his life completely, in a way that

was ultimately and perfectly pleasing to the father.

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