Running the Race by Faith: Hebrews 12:1-4
Question: Have Begun This Race? Jesus Authors Your Faith!
Question: How You Know You Are in the Race You Love the Brethren: 1 John 3:13-20
Question: Will You Finish Strong? Jesus Finishes Your Faith!
How You Start is How You Finish and How You Keep Going!
As You Received the Lord, So Walk in Him! (So Run the Race)
Colossians 2:6 Therefore as you have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him (lead your life),
Running the Race by Faith:
We Believed: Ephesians 1:13 In Him, you also, after listening to the message of truth the gospel of your salvation having also believed you were sealed in Him with the Holy Spirit of Promise, 14 who is given as a pledge of our inheritance, with a view to the redemption of God’s own possession to the praise of His glory.
1st The Cloud of Witnesses: (1) Therefore, since we have so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us…
The Exhortation and the Certainty:
Our Encouragement: They Lived by Faith & Did Not Shrink Back To Destruction: Hebrews 10:35-39
Our Certainty: By Faith they Conquered the Impossible & Finished Strong
By Faith: Hebrews 11:
• Abel Offered to God a better Sacrifice than Cain: 4
• Enoch Taken up so that he would not see death: 5
• Noah, being warned by God in reverence prepared an Ark for the salvation of his household? 7
• The Walls of Jericho fell down 30
• Rahab the harlot did not perish, after she had welcomed the spies in peace 31
• Daniel shut the mouths of lions 33
• The 3 Hebrew Children quenched the power of fire 34
• David put foreign armies to fight 34
Our Testimony: They Lived the Crucified Life! (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.
Galatians 2:20 I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me.
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
He Endured by Entrusting Himself to His Father, the Judge:
1 Peter 2:21-25
Despised the Shame: (He did not Welcome it)
The Accusation was shameful
His Punched Face was Shameful
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
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