NOTES for Heb 10:11-18
For many centuries people considered the language of sacrifice the most adequate means of communion with God (or gods). The logic is simple: suppose God (or one of the gods), for some reason, does not want to deal with me. But surely He (or he) wants something. Meat... or the fruits of the earth... I give this, and communion is restored - until the next time. Of course, this logic is connected with the fact that a person constructs God and His needs "in his own image." At the same time, for a time God, as it were, agrees to this way of communion and even lays out in great detail (in the law of Moses) what sacrifices are to be offered, and how and when they are to be offered.
The point is that God always takes into account what relationships a person is already capable of, and what relationships he is not yet capable of. And the language of sacrifice works until the time of the New Covenant arrives. All Old Testament sacrifices turn out to be prefigurations of the one sacrifice that Christ will offer on the cross.
Indeed, why does God not want to deal with man? Because man is in sin, that is, in opposition to the will of God. Old Testament sacrifices are directed toward appeasing God and restoring communion with Him. But what does God truly want from us? Love expressed in filial obedience (see Hos. 6:6; Matt. 9:13). This is what Jesus offers to God on the cross in an absolute degree, and therefore the appeasing of God, His forgiveness of sins, and the restoration of relationship also take place in an absolute degree. This means that God no longer accepts any sacrifices, because He has already accepted the perfect sacrifice. This is what the apostle Paul writes about in today's passage.