The Grace Message with Dr. Andrew Farley

What if forgiveness isn't a payment plan? Religion thrives on repeat performances, but the Gospel announces, "Paid in full." Discover why Christ's better blood, better sacrifice, and better covenant mean your sins aren't merely covered… they're taken away once and for all!

1. What does Hebrews mean when it says Jesus offered a "better sacrifice"? Better than what, and why does that matter?
2. Why is it important that Jesus did not offer Himself repeatedly, but "once for all"?
3. What is the difference between sin being temporarily covered and sin being completely taken away? How does this change the way we relate to God?
4. Why could the blood of bulls and goats remind people of sin but never remove sin?
5. Hebrews 10:2 says OT worshipers, if "once cleansed," would have no longer had consciousness of sins. What does this tell us about what we DO have in Christ today?
6. Use Hebrews 10:2 to react to this lie: Christians are forgiven eternally but still need daily cleansing.
7. What does it mean that Jesus "takes away the first in order to establish the second"? Why couldn't the old covenant remain alongside the new?
8. Hebrews 10:10 says, "we have been sanctified…once for all." How does this contradict a lot of teaching on "progressive sanctification" today?
9. React to this statement: Jesus will return without reference to our sins and we can eagerly await Him!

Can Mormon theology lead to salvation? Is anyone in their church saved? Jesus prayed for our "oneness" with Him in John 17, but does that happen for us now or later in Heaven? How can we die and be "present with the Lord" but then "the dead in Christ will rise first" at His return? When is the Matthew 25 final judgment in relation to the return of Christ?

Why did Paul tell the Corinthians to "examine themselves" before the Lord's Supper? What is "not my will but Your will be done" really mean? Does Romans 11 mean that we Gentile believers have been grafted into Israel?

Why did God require the shedding of blood for forgiveness of sins? I told someone Jesus came to serve us, but they didn't get it. What are your thoughts on cessationism? Have the spiritual gifts stopped? I have been experiencing disappointment in my prayer life. Am I praying wrong?

Our church leadership is telling me that I don't have the Holy Spirit living in me, because I don't speak in tongues. Is that truly the main evidence of salvation? And what about praying in a heavenly tongue? I'm wondering about salvation and in particular, my father, who was raised Catholic. What is the bare minimum that saves a person? What role does water baptism play?

What if Jesus, risen from the dead, were the only reason you behaved? How can we live differently knowing Christ is our life? A popular teaching has me worried that I might waste my life. What are your thoughts on finding purpose? How do we face strongholds or persistent struggles and temptations?

What does it mean to enter God's rest? Why is the cross not enough? What role does the resurrection play in our salvation? What purpose do the Ten Commandments serve? What about in the life of a believer? Do Christians "fall out of fellowship" with God when they sin?

Christians believe in Jesus, but many still live like they're standing in the outer court of the Old Testament tabernacle. Always wondering if they're close enough, clean enough, spiritual enough.

That's outer court theology. In this powerful message, Andrew Farley explodes this theology with the radical truth of the New Covenant. This New Covenant, which began the moment Jesus died, cleanses your conscience from dead religious works. Once for all.

You don't need more sacrifices, more rituals, or more self-examination. You need to know where you stand: in the Holy of Holies!

1. Hebrews 9 says the old covenant had barriers, veils, priests, repeated sacrifices, and limited access. Where do you still tend to live as though there is a barrier between you and God? What would change if you believed Christ has brought you all the way in?
2. The priests entered the outer room continually, but the Holy of Holies was entered only once a year by the high priest. How does this contrast help you appreciate your daily, personal access to God through Jesus? Do you relate to God freely, or do you still feel like you need to "wait outside"?
3. Verse 12 says Jesus entered the holy place "once for all" and obtained "eternal redemption." What does "once for all" do to the idea that you need to keep proving yourself, re-earning forgiveness, or getting spiritually "re-cleansed"?
4. Verse 14 says the blood of Christ cleanses our conscience from dead works to serve the living God. What are some "dead works" believers today might still rely on to feel okay with God? How is serving God different when it comes from a cleansed conscience instead of a guilty one?
5. Jesus is called the mediator of a new covenant. What does it mean to you that your relationship with God is not determined ("mediated") by your performance, your consistency, or your spiritual résumé but by Jesus Himself?
6. Hebrews 9 connects forgiveness with blood, sacrifice, and covenant. Why is it important that forgiveness is not God "looking the other way," but God fully dealing with sin through Christ? How does that make forgiveness feel more secure?
7. Where do you need to stop standing outside the veil and start living like someone who is always inside the Holy of Holies?