Week 3: Redeemer GC Lesson

Main Focus:
What role does the conscience play in our relationship with God?

The conscience is God’s moral compass within us, testifying to His law written on our hearts. For believers, it is renewed by the Holy Spirit and guides us toward righteousness, while for non-believers, it points to their need for God's grace.

  • For by a single offering he has perfected for all time those who are being sanctified.

    And the Holy Spirit also bears witness to us; for after saying,

    “This is the covenant that I will make with them
        after those days, declares the Lord:
    I will put my laws on their hearts,
        and write them on their minds,”

    then he adds,

    “I will remember their sins and their lawless deeds no more.”

    Where there is forgiveness of these, there is no longer any offering for sin.

    Therefore, brothers, since we have confidence to enter the holy places by the blood of Jesus, by the new and living way that he opened for us through the curtain, that is, through his flesh, and since we have a great priest over the house of God, let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, with our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water. Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for he who promised is faithful.

  • Head: What is the scripture saying?

  • Heart: What specific truths from this passage does God want us to believe and treasure?

  • Hands: How should the truth of God's Word in this passage prompt us to change our attitudes, priorities, or actions?