If you have ever watched a child do a job that was just a little bit out of their ability, then you might understand the frustration of perfectionists watching someone do a job improperly. I admit, I am not – by any stretch of the imagination – a perfectionist. However, I can sympathize a little bit with them. That feeling that you just want to do it all yourself so that the task will be done right (or at least according to your way) and in a timely manner. Imagine how our Heavenly Father must feel at times when he sits back and watches us do tasks that are completely out of our ability. He even gives us tasks to do that He knows we cannot get right i.e. Galatians 3:24 (the law being a schoolmaster to bring us to Christ). However, unlike a perfectionist Jesus isn’t nervous about us doing the task wrong; He knows we will get it wrong and hopes that we will understand that He is the only one that can get it perfect, and in that realization, He hopes that will draw us to Him and His love.

Hebrews 10:1-18King James Version

10 For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect.

² For then would they not have ceased to be offered? because that the worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins.

³ But in those sacrifices there is a remembrance again made of sins every year.

⁴ For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins.

⁵ Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me:

⁶ In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure.

⁷ Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God.

⁸ Above when he said, Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and offering for sin thou wouldest not, neither hadst pleasure therein; which are offered by the law;

⁹ Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second.

¹⁰ By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

¹¹ And every priest standeth daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins:

¹² But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God;

¹³ From henceforth expecting till his enemies be made his footstool.

¹⁴ For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified.

¹⁵ Whereof the Holy Ghost also is a witness to us: for after that he had said before,

¹⁶ This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them;

¹⁷ And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more.

¹⁸ Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin.

There is so much in this passage of scripture which I cannot go into right now, but the main question here is why did Jesus need to come and replace what the law required, a sacrifice of bulls and goats? Could not God just except the heart of the people sacrificing it in good faith? Is God so nervous about us getting the sacrifices wrong that he had to take control of the preverbal wheel?

Unfortunately, God knew that even if the priests followed the law “to a T” and did exactly what it demanded, the results would never bring perfection. Our God is a perfectionist. Not in a sense we might attribute to a man, but in the way that his justice demands perfection. The law would never bring the results that God wanted, a clean conscious of man with God – to restore the relationship he once had with Adam in the garden. Jesus had to come as a man, born without earthly father (so as to not take on the sin nature of Adam), live a sinless life, suffer at the hands of the people He came to save, take the role of high priest, take the place of the bulls and goats as the spotless “lamb of God which taketh away the sins of the World” [John 1:9] die a perfect death, and raise from the dead in perfection. He had to do this because the sacrifice that was required by the law could never do the one thing that God desired it to and what we needed it to do: make us perfect!

If you have followed the Biblical mandate set forth in Romans 10:13 then you have been made perfect in the sight of God by Christ’s blood shed on your account.

⁸ But what saith it? The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach;

⁹ That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.

¹⁰ For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.

¹¹ For the scripture saith, Whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed.

¹² For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him.

¹³ For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.

In our culture today we demand that God be a god of love and inclusion. And while He is the God of love, and His love is inclusive to every man woman and child that repents of their sins and accepts Christs righteousness, He is also a God of perfect justice, and his love is exclusively held out to only those who have been made perfect by His sacrifice. Ever other person will receive the just wage for the work of sin in their life, and that is an eternal, conscience, tormenting , death in a place called Hell.

If You have been made perfect, then we must maintain a good conscience with God by confessing and forsaking old sin and commit to living a holy righteous life as the Bible demands. We must do it by Jesus’s own strength and by His grace because He still demands perfection. And that is why He took and removed the Old Testament sacrifices by becoming the perfect sacrifice to make us perfect with him.

S.T.
I Thessalonians 5:24
"Faithful is he..."