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INTRO
THE GOOD NEWS IS GOOD NEWS EVERYDAY
Looking at endurance
READ HEBREWS 12:1-2 ESV
THE RACE THAT IS SET BEFORE US
OUR GOAL IS NOT TO SIMPLY LIKE JESUS; BUT RATHER TO BE LIKE HIM
WE ARE CALLED TO ENDURE
Eliud Kipchoge
World Record Marathon- Official 2:01:39; Unofficial 1:59:40
13.1mph for 2 hours
Surrounded by pace setters
[SLIDE] WHAT IS SURROUNDING YOUR LIFE?
WITNESS VS WEIGHT
We’re all surrounded by something
WHY IS THE IMAGE A CLOUD?
QUICKLY: MYSTERY AND REVELATION IMAGERY
Play on words in the Greek
NIV translation clarity: Easily Entagnles
PUT OFF NOT PUT UP WITH
As long as you are comfortable with sin and temporal things you won’t change.
I can pick on myself: I’ve lost weight and I’ve put it back on.
When I see my Dr, he doesn’t give me a plan for how to put up with the weight gain, he gives me a plan for how to put it off!
WHAT YOU PUT UP WITH WILL EVENTUALLY PULL YOU DOWN
This is a great tragedy in life, especially within the Church.
If I have one goal in this life, it is to finish the race.
The picture in Hebrews is not that one person runs faster than the other:
One person is so resolved to run the race that their trials and suffering only make them stronger.
The other person does all they can to avoid the suffering because it looks too heavy and it has crowded them out and weighed them down so much that they cannot move.
SOMETIMES IT’S NOT WHAT WE PUT UP WITH BUT WHAT WE ARE PUT THROUGH
Trials are an opportunity for joy, but they are still trials.
Have you ever had the wind kicked out of you?
It seems so easy to run the race until there’s a death in the family.
It’s so easy to run until all of your plans.
VULNERABLE MOMENT
It goes back to the big question from last Sunday:
[SLIDE] JESUS I KNOW YOU SAVED ME, BUT WILL YOU SUSTAIN ME?
READ HEBREWS 10:35-36 ESV
[SLIDE] THE GOOD NEWS IS NOT THAT ALL OF OUR PLANS WORK OUT; THE GOOD NEWS IS THAT ALL OF GOD’S DO.
[KEYS OUT]
OUR FREEDOM IS FOUND IN OUR FOCUS
Looking to Jesus
Founder = Captain
The Holy Spirit empowers every believer to endure
THE GOOD NEWS IS GOOD NEWS EVERY DAY
This life is not all there is.
The Kingdom of God is rapidly advancing toward the Day of the LORD.
What are you focused on today?
READ 2 TIMOTHY 4:6-8 ESV
I WANT YOU TO FINISH THE RACE
Put off the weight of disappointment and discouragement
Put off the sin
Put off the easy button emotional fixes
Let your life bare witness to the faithfulness of God
PRAY
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