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Youth Retreat
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Apostle's Creed
Sing to the King
Great Is Thy Faithfulness
Offering:
Isaiah
Communion: Read
Isaiah 59:21
Be Thou My Vision
It Is Well
Offering: Days of Elijah
Communion:
Message
Days of Elijah
Read:
How Great Is Our God
Following to the Finish Line
We’re following Christ, but what we’ll see from , is that we’re really following others who have gone before us and made it!
Follow others to the finish line
In the process: Lead others to the finish line.
Passage is divided up into three sections, an introduction to what faith is, illustrations of men and women of faith, and an exhortation to us to follow in their footsteps and live like they lived.
Leaders know where they are going
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Leaders know why they must get there
Leaders are willing to do whatever it takes to arrive at the finish line.
Leaders are willing to do whatever it takes to arrive at the finish line.
What is the urgency to be a leader?
The strength of the spiritual leader flows from his faith in God
Leaders are willing to do what it takes to arrive at the finish line.
God will lead his people to the finish line.
Heb 11:1-
summarize :4-12
Abel, Enoch, and Noah, and Abraham
Read :12-16
Summarize :17-22
Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, Moses
Read :23-26
Summarize :27-31
Passover, the promised land, and Rahab
Read :32-12:2
We all take things by faith: No one knows where the universe came from.
We believe by faith that God created it with his word.
But we take all sorts of things by faith...
We’re happy to know that we can turn on the TV and watch some people in a studio give us the news as it is happening.
We have confidence that they are just going to work.
have you ever been scammed?
taken someone’s word for something and it turned out to bite you in the end?
You probably have had people call you asking for personal information, or knocked on your door hoping to see your gas bill, or sent you an email saying your bank account has been hacked.
Hopefully you’re not giving out that personal information, but if you’ve ever have been scammed, its the most humiliating and helpless feeling in the world.
You feel so stupid because you shouldn’t have trusted that person.
You should have known better.
You put your faith in someone who abused you and took advantage of you.
The writer of Hebrews is asking you to put your faith in someone who is, as we just sang, FAITHFUL.
And this God accepts us based solely on our faith.
Thankfully not by our works.
God does not accept us based on our good deeds, but because we believe Jesus did all the good deeds in our place and died instead of us, so that we can live with God forever.
So faith is believing in something in a way that makes you vulnerable.
That if the source of your faith is misplaced, it will burn you.
faith is driving your car out on a frozen lake because you believe the ice will hold your vehicle up.
Faith is investing in a company that you believe will do well.
did anyone have faith in McDonalds in 2003 and buy at $10 a share?
It’s now $173?
Faith isn’t real faith if it doesn’t cost you something if the promise doesn’t come through.
The writer of Hebrews talks about how none of these people saw the promise, but
:39 they all recieved something better
So looking at the lives of these saints, let’s look at three elements of a spiritual leader.
Leaders know where they are going
Leaders know where they are going
Leaders are willing to do whatever it takes to arrive at the finish line.
Leaders are willing to do whatever it takes to arrive at the finish line.
The strength of the spiritual leader flows from his faith in God.
The strength of the spiritual leader flows from his faith in God.
Leaders know where they are going.
These men and women had a singular goal in mind.
It was not to be happy, or wealthy.
It was not to be popular, or successful.
It was not to be influential or talented.
:13 These men and women lived their lives as strangers and exiles on the earth because they weren’t living for the here and now, they were living for a ‘homeland’ :16 they desired a heavenly country, not earthly success.
Most clearly 12:2 Look to Jesus, who endured incredible torture and death because of the joy set before him.
Something he died to achieve.
So now he is exalted above all others.
Spiritual leaders’ primary goal in life, in the little moments of where to spend your time and money, the primary goal is to treasure life with God forever.
That’s what we need to be driven toward.
Let’s be careful as we fill up our days with so many distractions that keep us from remembering and talking about the coming of Jesus.
A simple way to do this, is to be consciously adding it to your prayers.
Hopefully you’re praying throughout your day, as you wake up, as you drive to work, before you eat your meals.
I encourage you, that every time you pray, try to ask Jesus to come quickly, or affirm your faith that he is coming quickly.
It may help in little moments put things into perspective that are just temporary.
This life is just a short puff of smoke.
Gone so quickly.
Let’s live our lives for what really matters.
Leaders are willing to do whatever it takes to arrive at the finish line.
When I was a senior in high school, our soccer team was really good.
We had some really skilled players, we worked hard all year, conditioning, drills, suicide sprints, and we made it to the state finals.
we had a music and speech competition that week before, and I was involved in events every day that week.
Game time, and the next thing I know, the coach is pulling me out.
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