Put a Lid on It
God previewed the rich meaning and impact of Christ’s redemptive work through the Old Testament symbols of the Ark of the Covenant, its sacrifices, and its rituals.
Atonement
December 23, 2025
Questions in this episode: – In Numbers 21:8 is the serpent on the pole a violation of the Ten Commandments? – Is it okay for a man and women to live together if they had a ceremony joining them together, but wasn’t done legally? – Do you think the rapture takes the church out of …
Deepening Our Concern
Take up the responsibility of being Christ’s ambassador with the time you have left by working to see the people around you as in desperate need of being reconciled to God.
September 10, 2025
Questions in this episode: – How do we know that people who wrote the Bible were telling the truth? – What do you think of the docuseries The Religion Business by Nathan Apfell? – What is your recommendation for a good study Bible? – Should I leave my fiancé whom I have a child with, …
Narrowing Our Audience
Because Christ paid the ultimate price to redeem us, our love for him should compel us to put aside our old desires and live wholly for him.
Question & Answer Service 2025-Part 1
Pastor Mike answers questions about God, the Bible, and Christianity. Questions in this session: Why does Paul in the Spirit say he will continue to Jerusalem, when Agabus says the Holy Spirit says he will be imprisoned? Who made God? What is the biblical view of retirement? In 1 Corinthians 15:10 what is meant by …
August 29, 2024
Questions in this episode: – Does God have a soul? – Are you aware of the word musar (chastisement) ever meaning anything other than punitive discipline? Do you know a better way to show the truth of penal substitutionary atonement as it relates to Isa 53? – How do I talk to my grown daughter …
Questions & Answers 2023-Part 3
Pastor Mike answers questions about God, the Bible, and Christianity. Questions in this session: Do you need to believe in the resurrection to be saved? Is it okay for Christians to donate their organs after death? How should Christians respond to the cultural pressure to reduce the population? Could you provide Scriptural evidence for a …
Forgiveness
God’s forgiveness is complete. Because God is too pure to approve or tolerate what is evil (Hab.1:13; Ps.5:4-5; et al.), to say that we are God’s beloved children because we are accepted by God in Christ, is to make a gigantic claim that assumes that our…
Question & Answer Service 2021-Part 1
Pastor Mike answers questions about God, the Bible, and Christianity. Questions in this session: 1. Question on same sex attraction. 2. Do all pastors at Compass agree to all 5 points of grace. 3. Question related to understanding the differences between dispensational and Covenantal theologies and can they be reconciled. 4. How does a woman …
The Final Payment
We must be careful to consider the high cost of our redemption as Jesus suffered sin’s just penalty on the cross purchasing reconciliation for those who are truly penitent.
Condemned In Our Place
We must learn to appreciate the great exchange of our redemption wherein Christ’s perfection is granted to sinners like us while the entire penalty for our sin was borne by him in his suffering and death.
The Price of Forgiveness
The perfect and infinitely valuable life of Son of God fully paid the just demands of the Father’s holiness by incurring all the painful punishments our sins deserve.
Pain and Temptation
The triune God demonstrated love for us in the most costly transaction imaginable; in response we ought to eternally thank him and sacrificially obey all that he commands.
The Lamb Who Was Slain
This Good Friday Pastor Mike Fabarez looks at the crucifixion of Christ and its connection to the Passover lamb. Prepare for the resurrection celebration this Easter by remembering the reason Christ was crucified for us.
God’s Payment for Lawbreakers
Pondering God’s longtime plan of redemption humbles us Christians, as we realize that Christ’s horrible suffering was the judgment our sins and transgressions had earned.
It’s Good to Be a Christian
We should regularly ponder the great privilege it is to be a Christian, having received the grace of God to have hell cancelled, heaven secured, and all of our sins paid in full by Jesus Christ.
The Word’s Ultimate Solution
God’s perfect justice was settled on behalf of sinners who trust in Christ by the substitutionary death of Jesus on the cross resulting in a complete atonement.
Real Salvation
We cannot rightly understand or appropriate the benefits of Christ’s NT cross until we understand something of the OT altar.
What’s With All Those Animal Sacrifices, and Why No More?
The animal sacrifices of the Old Testament didn’t save anyone, but they symbolized something that did – the substitutionary death of the sinless Lamb of God.
Why Did We Need a New Covenant Anyway?
The work of Christ provided for us Gentiles a revolutionary opportunity to know God intimately and experience his perfect forgiveness.
Why the Son Became One of Us
Christ offers to God the Father what we cannot; And at great cost to himself, he sacrificially endows us with incredible, unearned and eternal benefits.
Embracing the Lamb of God
God’s solution for our dilemma of guilt and judgment was secured by Jesus’ life, death and resurrection.
