Running the Race by Faith: Jesus Our Example Hebrews 12:1-4

Question: Will You Finish Strong? Jesus Finishes Your Faith:

How You Start is How You Finish and How You Keep Going!

1st The Cloud of Witnesses:

Our Encouragement: They Lived by Faith & Did Not Shrink Back To Destruction:
Our Certainty: By Faith they Conquered the Impossible & Finished Strong and so shall we!
Our Testimony: They Lived the Crucified Life!: So Shall We! (1)
Let us also Lay aside every weight end the sin which so easily entangles us, ad let us run the race that is set before us.

Our Resolve: Fix Our Eyes on Jesus the Author and Finisher of our Faith (2)

¬ How we Face Our Trials: 2 Corinthians 4:16-18

¬ How we are Transformed: 2 Corinthians 3:18 We all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as from the Lord, the Spirit.
¬ How we Find Peace in Lack: Matthew 6:33 Seek First the Kingdom of God and His Righteousness and all these things will be added unto you.
¬ How We Find the Lord: Jeremiah 29:11-14

2nd Jesus Our Example:

Who For the Joy set before Him, Endured the Cross: (3)

¬ He Endured by Submitting to the Will of His Father
Matthew 26:39-44

What was coming: Forsaken, Your Sin laid on Him, Separation from God,

¬ He Endured by Entrusting Himself to His Father, the Judge:
1 Peter 2:21-25

Jesus Kept His Tongue, His Course, His Joy, He Loved until the end.

Despised the Shame: (He did not Welcome it)

¬ The Accusation was shameful
¬ The Punched Face.
¬ The Plucked Beard was shameful
¬ The Mocking Crown and Robe was shameful
¬ The Beating was shameful: Whipped with the Cat of Nine Tails,
¬ The Naked Body Nailed to the Cross was Shameful

Sat Down at the Right Hand of the Father:

¬ Where He Is Glorified: He Finished His Course
¬ Where He Intercedes: Romans 8:34 Christ Jesus is He who died, yes, rather who was raised who is at the right hand of God, who also intercedes for us.
¬ Where He Conquers, Rules and Reigns: Acts 2:34 The Lord said to my Lord, sit at my right hand, 35 Until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet. 36 Therefore let all the house of Israel Know for certain that God has made Him both Lord and Christ, this Jesus whom you crucified.

Consider Jesus: 2 Corinthians 4:16-18