Prize (2)
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· 8 viewsSomething of value given to those competing in a race, which the Christian life is likened to. Though believers must accept discipline and training, a prize is reserved for everyone who is committed to Jesus Christ.
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A prize is reserved for all believers
A prize is reserved for all believers
The crown is the wreath given to the winner of a race.
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Requirements for winning the prize
Requirements for winning the prize
Total dedication to God
Total dedication to God
24 But none of these things move me, neither count I my life dear unto myself, so that I might finish my course with joy, and the ministry, which I have received of the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace of God.
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Perseverance
Perseverance
14 I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
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Keeping God’s rules
Keeping God’s rules
5 And if a man also strive for masteries, yet is he not crowned, except he strive lawfully.
Self-discipline
Self-discipline
25 And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible. 26 I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air: 27 But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.
Hindrances to winning the prize
Hindrances to winning the prize
Falling into sin
Falling into sin
1 Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,
Following false teaching
Following false teaching
7 Ye did run well; who did hinder you that ye should not obey the truth?
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