Sermons from Noosa Presbyterian Church
Sep 30, 2026 · 25 min · 8 segments
**Hebrews 9:1 – 10:18 | Jesus – a better sacrifice** Introduction: Dealing with guilt The context 1. Religion has never removed anyone’s guilt (9:1–10) 2. Jesus has removed our guilt (9:11–28) 3…
The real question this morning is, what do you do with your guilt before God? What do you do...
When you are convicted of your sin, when you feel the guilt of the angry outburst at your kids, when you feel the shame of those hateful words that you spoke, or the lie that you told, or the thoughts that ran through your mind, The things you searched for online.
What do you do when you realize that after five or ten or fifty years of being a Christian, you are still just as much a sinner as you were when you began? Now, I'll tell you what lots of us do.
We ignore it.
We kind of just don't think about it.
We become so desensitized to the fact that we sin that we don't even notice it anymore.
And that's a really dangerous place for us to be.
There are times when we do notice our sin and we might try and justify it.
You find yourself doing this, you go, oh, I was tired.
Well, I wouldn't have reacted so badly if she hadn't said what she said.
Everyone knows that I'm not really like that most of the time.
Maybe sometimes your sin actually drives you to try to redeem yourself.
I don't know if you do this, but maybe you feel guilty and so you feel like you need to kind of balance the scales again and say, I'm going to go to church or I'm going to give money to charity or something like that just to make yourself feel better about your sin.
Well, friends, my aim this morning is to help you see that no matter what you do to deal with your guilt, it doesn't work.
Nothing that you can do will change the fact that you are a guilty sinner just like me.
But more than that, my aim this morning is to help you know that God has dealt with your guilt already.
Now, Pam did a fantastic job reading that big section of Hebrews.
You did a great job if you were able to follow along with it.
It is a tricky passage.
It can be difficult to understand what the author is going on about.
It's even harder to know how it is relevant to people like us.
But we'll go a long way to understanding this part of Hebrews if we remember the context of this whole letter.
Now, I've talked about this before, but we've got plenty of new people with us.
The real question this morning is, what do you do with your guilt before God? What do you do...
When you are convicted of your sin, when you feel the guilt of the angry outburst at your kids, when you feel the shame of those hateful words that you spoke, or the lie that you told, or the thoughts that ran through your mind, The things you searched for online.
What do you do when you realize that after five or ten or fifty years of being a Christian, you are still just as much a sinner as you were when you began? Now, I'll tell you what lots of us do.
We ignore it.
We kind of just don't think about it.
We become so desensitized to the fact that we sin that we don't even notice it anymore.
And that's a really dangerous place for us to be.
There are times when we do notice our sin and we might try and justify it.
You find yourself doing this, you go, oh, I was tired.
Well, I wouldn't have reacted so badly if she hadn't said what she said.
Everyone knows that I'm not really like that most of the time.
Maybe sometimes your sin actually drives you to try to redeem yourself.
I don't know if you do this, but maybe you feel guilty and so you feel like you need to kind of balance the scales again and say, I'm going to go to church or I'm going to give money to charity or something like that just to make yourself feel better about your sin.
Well, friends, my aim this morning is to help you see that no matter what you do to deal with your guilt, it doesn't work.
Nothing that you can do will change the fact that you are a guilty sinner just like me.
But more than that, my aim this morning is to help you know that God has dealt with your guilt already.
Now, Pam did a fantastic job reading that big section of Hebrews.
You did a great job if you were able to follow along with it.
It is a tricky passage.
It can be difficult to understand what the author is going on about.
It's even harder to know how it is relevant to people like us.
But we'll go a long way to understanding this part of Hebrews if we remember the context of this whole letter.
Now, I've talked about this before, but we've got plenty of new people with us.
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