Jesus said that God did not desire sacrifices that were offered in accordance to the Law, what God truly desires is the worship of the people which could only take place when the Israelites in the Old Testament had made atonement through sacrifice. God wanted the worship, not the sacrifice. Jesus is referring to the heart of God which we can see in Hosea 6:6 For I desire mercy, not sacrifice, and acknowledgment of God rather than burnt offerings. First the law and the sacrificial system was given so the people could worship God but people began to follow it because it was the law, not because it allowed them to worship God. The importance and significance of the law became because it was the law and thus God reminded his people in Hosea and Jesus again as God reminded his followers that worship is what God desires. Then the second sacrifice that came is the sacrifice that Jesus Christ made for us. Once and for all by the body of Jesus being sacrificed on the cross, the debt of sin was paid but not as the annual sacrifice or as a sin offering that had to be made over and over again but as a once and for all sacrifice for every one of us. Jesus’ sacrifice changed the rhythm from sin, sacrifice, repeat to something new. Hebrews 10:11–14 Day after day every priest stands and performs his religious duties; again and again he offers the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins. But when this priest had offered for all time one sacrifice for sins, he sat down at the right hand of God, and since that time he waits for his enemies to be made his footstool. For by one sacrifice he has made perfect forever those who are being made holy. In this passage we see the rhythm. Again and again the same sacrifices were made which can never take away sins and then we have Jesus coming and disrupting this Rhythm once and for all making perfect those who are being made holy, those who are set apart for God. We are all invited to believe in him so that we can be made holy. In order to not need to live in the rhythm of worship, sin, sacrifice repeat we must accept Jesus Christ and what he did for us. We accept his sacrifice by putting our faith in him. If we believe in him then if we sin the rhythm is disrupted, our relationship with God is not tarnished by our sin because of Jesus’ sacrifice that once and for all has made it so that sin doesn’t disrupt our worship. We live in a new rhythm, one of continued worship. Because of the sacrifice of Jesus eliminating the need of regular sacrifices and his sacrifice forgiving once and for all the sins of all who believe in him the new become rhythm worship, worship worship and repeat. On Good Friday Jesus disrupted the rhythm of the Old Testament by dying on the cross for us. He made it so that we can worship the Lord forevermore if we put our faith in him.
