Part 10 | Divine Perspective for the Race of Faith

Hebrews 12

📖  Hebrews 12:1 ESV Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses…

Live for Christ so that after you’re , you still have something to . 

📖  Psalm 119:32 ESV I will run in the way of your commandments when you enlarge my heart!

📖  1 Corinthians 9:24 ESV Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one receives the prize? So run that you may obtain it.

📖  2 Timothy 4:7 ESV I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.

1. We run with a out.

📖  Hebrews 12:1b ESV let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us,

📖  Proverbs 20:24 ESV A man’s steps are from the LORD; how then can man understand his way?

📖  Ephesians 2:10 ESV For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.

📖  Jeremiah 10:23 ESV I know, O LORD, that the way of man is not in himself, that it is not in man who walks to direct his steps.

2. We run, leaving our .

📖  Hebrews 12:1b ESV let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely

📖  Hebrews 12:4 ESV In your struggle against sin you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your blood.

3. We run with a to follow. 

📖  Hebrews 12:2–3 ESV looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God. 3 Consider him who endured from sinners such hostility against himself, so that you may not grow weary or fainthearted.

📖  1 Timothy 2:5 ESV For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus.

📖  Philippians 1:6 NLT And I am certain that God, who began the good work within you, will continue his work until it is finally finished on the day when Christ Jesus returns.

4. We run knowing has a .

📖  Hebrews 12:4–6 ESV In your struggle against sin you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your blood. 5 And have you forgotten the exhortation that addresses you as sons? “My son, do not regard lightly the discipline of the Lord, nor be weary when reproved by him. 6 For the Lord disciplines the one he loves, and chastises every son whom he receives.”

A. Discipline is evidence of .

📖  Hebrews 12:7–9 ESV For what son is there whom his father does not discipline? 8 If you are left without discipline, in which all have participated, then you are illegitimate children and not sons. 9 Besides this, we have had earthly fathers who disciplined us and we respected them. Shall we not much more be subject to the Father of spirits and live?

B. Discipline is intended for our .

📖  Hebrews 12:10 ESV For they disciplined us for a short time as it seemed best to them, but he disciplines us for our good, that we may share his holiness.

C. Discipline produces lasting .

📖  Hebrews 12:11 ESV For the moment all discipline seems painful rather than pleasant, but later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.

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