Why Jesus? Because Once for All, Our Conscience is Clean

Introduction:

Why the Old Covenant? (Hebrews 9:1-14):

  1. How the Old Covenant Worked : (Heb 9:1-7)
  2. What the Old Covenant Did Do :
  3. What the Old Covenant Didn't Do . (Heb 9:8-10)

    Conscience: inner feeling that acts as a guide to the rightness or wrongness of one's behavior

  4. How Jesus Did Do what the Old Covenant Couldn't Do. (Heb 9:11-14)

    Revelation 12:11 - And they have conquered him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, for they loved not their lives even unto death.

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Small Group Discussion
Read Hebrews 9:1-14

  1. What was your big take-away from this passage / message?

  2. Why do you think the Hebrew writer turned his focus to the tabernacle? What was the purpose of walking through this?

  3. In what ways does the tabernacle picture Jesus Christ?

  4. Do you sometimes struggle with a guilty conscience? Why?

  5. What does this passage say about feeling guilty over “am I doing the right works to make God happy”?

  6. How does the blood of Christ “purify our conscience” (v14)? How should this change the way we serve Christ? The way we give?

Breakout
Pray for one another.