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Amen, amen. Hebrews chapter 12. Apologize for the technical difficulties
during Sunday school. We're working on trying to solve
that problem, so bear with us. Hebrews chapter 12. Let's begin in chapter 11, verse 39. And these all, having obtained
a good report through faith, received not the promise, God
having provided some better thing for us, that they without us
should not be made perfect. That's all those he mentions
in Hebrews 11. Wherefore, now he encourages
them in a great way. 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,
looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who
for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising
the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne
of God. For consider him, that's Christ, that endured such contradiction
of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your
minds. Let's pray. Our Heavenly Father,
we ask now again that you would bless us with your presence,
but especially the Holy Spirit. May he guide us in these truths.
I pray that, Lord, you'd encourage us as your children in this divinely
appointed race We pray, Father, Lord, that you'd inspire us and
strengthen us and comfort us. Lord, you know we so often grow
weary and faint. I pray that, Lord, you'd strengthen
your children this morning anew. Invigorate us, Father, by your
Spirit. Enable us to get back into the
race that we might run it with patience as we look unto Jesus,
the author and finisher of our faith. In Christ's name we pray. Amen. We go this morning from
the soul that fainteth for the salvation of God. to those who are in danger of
becoming weary and fainting in their minds. It's not uncommon for God's people
to faint in our Christian life. As a matter of fact, throughout
Scripture we are told that we are often prone to fainting. Be it in soul or be it in mind. Yet God, our God, who is everlasting,
Elohim, covenant-keeping God, the Lord, Jehovah God, the Creator
of the ends of the earth, the Bible says He fainteth not, neither
is He weary. Strange when you consider it.
Why would this prophet declare God doesn't faint and that God's
never weary? Because we are. God never gets
tired nor does He get weary of our fainting. I want you to understand
that. He never comes to the point to
where He's frustrated, discouraged, or even angry when we faint. That's why the prophet declared
that this God, this Elohim, covenant-keeping Jehovah God, never faints and
is never weary. But there's one thing He does
do for us in that text in Isaiah. It says, He giveth power to the
faint. I don't know about you, but if
God grants power to the faint, maybe sometimes it's not bad
to be fainting. Something like Paul said, when
I'm weak, then I'm strong, because then the power of God and the
power of Christ restest upon me. He giveth power to the faint
and to them that have no might. The Bible says He increases strength. So it's amazing how the prophet
in those words declares that our feigning doesn't keep God
from giving us power nor does our lack of strength or might
keep Him from giving us or increasing our strength. Thus is the everlasting and unchanging
mercy and grace of our God. who hath pleasure in the prosperity
of his servants. Psalm 35, 27. Verses always amazed
me. He has pleasure in the prosperity
of his servants. He who will perfect that which
concerneth them. Psalm 138, verse eight. He will
perfect that. It's a concern to them. And like
the psalmist said in Psalm 57, he will also perform all things
for us. It's amazing God, isn't it? And on top of all that, he says,
and besides all that, I want you to be assured that I will
never, I will never leave you, nor will I ever forsake you because I'm God. It's a mating
comfort for a child of God, is it not? And so we see that here in our
text this morning when Paul describes to us in chapter 11 all those
saints of old and the mighty workings of faith that was wrought
upon their lives and within their lives. Before the Apostle would
exhort the true believers to run the race with patience set
before them, he first described the cloud of witnesses which
encompassed or enclosed or encircled them. From chapter 11. He said they have obtained a
good report through faith. A good report. Yet he said they
haven't received the promise. And I'm telling you, that divine
truth is worthy of our contemplation. They obtained a good report, yet they hadn't received the
promise. Why? Listen closely. Verse 40 of 11, God having provided,
ordained, decreed, foreseen some better thing for us. I don't know how that makes you
feel, but I'm very humbled by that. Their acts and heroic acts
of faith in Hebrews chapter 11 were great. And yet God says, I provided
foreseen something better for you. Why something better? That they
without us should not be made perfect. It's amazing when you think about
that. After saying that, Paul says,
or begins verse 12 with this word, wherefore. That's an amazing truth in verse
40 of chapter 11, but Paul says, wherefore, because God hath provided
something better for us, that they without us should not be
made perfect, wherefore, here is the exhortation. Seeing, now
listen to the words, seeing we are also, we also are compassed
about with so great a cloud of witnesses. In other words, seeing
those witnesses, let us lay aside every weight and let us lay aside,
and the sin which does so easily beset us and let us, for whom
God has provided something better, listen to the words, Stated in
chapter 11, let us, to whom God has provided something better,
let us run with patience the race that is set before us, looking
unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our
faith. Is it not amazing, he said, that we should see the
cloud of witnesses that encircle us. We are to be inspired by
that cloud of witnesses, motivated by that cloud of witnesses, but
we're to look, we're to look unto Jesus. Isn't that amazing? Not unto them, but look unto
Jesus. And it's amazing also that Paul
would describe the Christian life, the life of faith, because
chapter 11 is all about faith, as a race. He said, let us run
with patience the race that is set before us. Now in context
to what God said in verse 40, or Paul said in verse 40, we're
God providing some better thing for us, that providing something
better for us entails this race. And Paul would have us to understand
that this life of faith, this thing that God has better prepared
for us is a race that we're to run as Christians. It's not of
our own choosing. but one divinely and providentially
set before us. Let us run with patience the
race that is set before us. It's not one that we choose of
our own. Stay with me. The course of this
race is not decided by us. The length of that race is not
decided by us. The ruggedness, the terrain,
the obstacles are not decided by us. Everything has been set
for us. That alone should encourage us
in running this race, not frighten us. Why do you say that? In living
the Christian life for 43 years, I thank God that I didn't choose
my course. God did. Now was I always comfortable
with the course that God chose for me? No. Was it always pleasant? Nope. Was there heartache and sorrow
along that course? Yep. But it's God's course He set
for me. Don't ever think that your Christian
life is left to chance. And don't ever think that you
have the power to run this race according to your own design
or your own purpose. You see, to believe in the providence
of God and His sovereignty is not only to believe that all
creation is governed by God, but it is also to believe that
His divine providence and sovereignty is also in my life and everything
that I do and everything that happens to me. We plan. Nothing wrong with that. But it's God who directs our
paths. There is comfort in knowing that,
but also a solemn sense of humility. It is not. I see Christians over
the years get so frustrated because their plans and purposes fail
and falter. As though God had for a moment
lost all consciousness and awareness of where we're going and what
we're doing. That somehow we got out of God's will. It's a course set before us. It's a race that's prevalently
set before us. The entire race, what Paul here
describes, this Christian life of faith, that's what he's talking
about. Don't forget, he's including
chapter 11, all these great acts, heroic acts of faith. He began
by describing faith. It's the substance of things
hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. He's still talking
about faith. This life of faith He compares
to a race that is divinely, providentially set before us by God. We need
to comprehend that if we're going to understand the context. The entire race, even down to
the course, the route, the path, the direction is divinely appointed
with the greatest of God's wisdom, Stay with me. The greatest of
God's wisdom, His grace, His knowledge, His care, that's how
the course is laid out. You know when they have a marathon
and they run this marathon, the course is diligently laid out. weeks, months before they even
begin the race, they'll have men and women out there laying
the course. And they will look at that course
and they will design that course way before the race starts. So
when the runners get there, they're not going, where do I go? It's
all laid out. Now the difference is they know
that course. Sometimes they're even allowed
to run it a few days before in preparation. The difference with
that kind of course in God's, we don't know what's around the
bend. But God does. Sometimes the greatest frustration
in our Christian life is because we don't have control of our
situation. God said, I never intended for
you to set your course. I set it for you. Run the course. At his departure, Out of this
present world, or before his departure, out of the present
world, Paul wrote unto Timothy in 2 Timothy 4, for I am now
ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand.
I'm ready to go. Philippians, when he wrote them,
he wasn't ready. He said, no, it's better for
me to stay here with you. But in 2 Timothy, he goes, I'm
ready. My departure is at hand. I have
fought a good fight. I have finished my course. I've kept the faith. He said, I ran the course which
was mine that God gave me. Stay with me. Every single one
of us in this race, we all run. But every single one of us has
a designated course that God has set specifically for you
and I. We might not have to run the
same mountain or through the same valley. We all run the race,
but the courses are different. Yours might not be like mine.
Mine might not be like yours. Paul said it was my course. And
I finished it. We must all run with patience
the race, yet each of us have our own divinely appointed course, route, path. Our course may greatly differ
than that of others, but it is a course of God's own choosing.
Stay with me, I'm trying to make this practical. Why is that so
important? Because sometimes Christians
are too troubled looking at other people rather than what God has
laid out before them. In this race, as we'll see in
a few minutes, it's not a competition to win amongst others. It's to finish the course. Are
you following me? It's to finish the course. Keep
an eye on your course. Well preacher, they're not running
the same course as I am. Mine seems pretty tough. It's
the one God chose for you. I don't like it. Still the one God chose for you. You see, with all those descriptions
in Hebrews chapter 11, Not everyone was called on to offer an Isaac.
Not everyone was called on to build an ark. Not everyone, like Moses, was
called to wait in the wilderness for 40 years before God used
him. Not all were eaten by lions or
tormented. But each one of them, like us,
each one of them had a divinely appointed course that God set
before them to run. It wasn't theirs to choose, nor
is it ours. Have you ever found yourself,
and I know I have, Lord, if in my life, if I would have back
then turned this way instead of that, ever been there? Lord, what if I back then decided
to go there instead of here? All those ifs, huh? What if? Let me tell you something, if
we had control over that to go back and do what we wanted, our
life would probably be more miserable than it is now. It's not the
way it goes. And as you grow in grace and
knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, you begin to humbly
realize the course God set before me is much better than one I
would set. But you say, Preacher, I wouldn't go down this same
course. I guarantee you, I would take another route. I would not
go down this one. Well, it would not be the one
God chose for you. Now, I know this is not always
easy to humbly accept the course God has set for ourselves. But
let me tell you something, by the time we get to the end, it
will be. I guarantee you we will look
back on the course that God set for us, and I guarantee you,
like Paul, we will say, I've finished my course by the grace
of God. Some of us here this morning,
if time and Christ delays His coming happens, some of us here
this morning are very near to that end of the course. Our life is coming to an end.
If God doesn't come back or take us home, we're reaching the end
of our course. We've got a few more miles to
go. Some of you have a whole lifetime ahead of you. Let me
tell you something from experience. Though you might not like or
be comfortable with the course God sets for you, let me give
you some good advice. Stay the course in faith because
it's the one God has chosen. And it is the best course, regardless
of what happens, it is the best course. My course. Each course. has a test to our faith, our
hope and our trust in God and His Word. This divinely set course down
which this race is to be run is often filled with various
obstacles. The spiritual terrain often rough
and rugged. There's high mountains to cross.
So you must on them mountains pace yourself. Are you listening? You can't swiftly run up a mountain
or sprint. So when those mountains cross
your course, you pace yourself and you climb it. And though
you get weary in your spiritual legs and the breathing gets heavy,
you keep climbing. Because of the prize that waited
for you, getting ahead of myself, of course, but also because it's
godly, divine course. There are a lot of deep valleys
that you'll have to pass through. It can be very dark and heartbreaking, but you stay the course. Why? Because God has said it before
you. You see, the runner runs, and I'm getting ahead of myself,
the runner runs not merely simply to run, he runs to win the prize. That's why he says looking unto
Jesus, inspired by the cloud of witnesses, but not looking
unto them, looking unto Jesus. Why? He's our prize. He's our prize. And so as we
run down those times of dark valleys and it gets very dark,
we run because the prize is Christ. And we keep running. There are times when our pace
is or must be made slower. Like I said, sometimes it's made slower by
obstacles and rough terrain. And there's also times in this
race when we must pick up our pace. The race has a lot of different things attached to it. Yet run we must, never lingering,
never tearing, too long in one place. A runner knows if he stops
too long his legs get stiff, tired. Gotta keep going. Along the way we gotta make sure
we drink enough water. Wonder what that could illustrate. Sometimes they'll grab protein
bars. We run, though, but not uncertainly. That is, without confidence.
We run with confidence. Look at 1 Corinthians 9. 1 Corinthians
9. Verse 24. Know ye not that they which run in
a race run all, we all run, but one receiveth the prize? So run, run, that ye may obtain. 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. comparing the
races, human and spiritual. Watch this, I therefore so run,
not as uncertainly, not doubting. So fight I, not as one that beateth
the air, but I keep under my body and bring it under subjection,
lest that by any means when I have preached to others, I myself
should be a castaway. All run the race, but one receives
the prize. So run, he says. Now, Paul is not saying that
only one Christian is going to receive the prize. That's not
what he's implying. He's just using the analogy of
a race. We're all going to run, and every Christian that runs,
we all receive the prize, which is Christ. But he's saying, run
as though you're the only one that will receive it. Unlike the worldly race where
only one person receives the prize, in this divinely ordained
race, all receive the prize, but God would have us to strive
and vigorously run the race. for the prize of the high calling
of God in Christ Jesus, according to Philippians chapter three.
So he says, run the race, don't stop. One of the biggest problems
with many Christians is they stop running the race. Paul asked
the Galatians, you did run well, what did hinder you? In 43 years or so, I've seen
many so-called professing Christians drop out of the race. This is not a race for those
that truly don't know Christ. They will burn out and they'll
quit. They cannot keep up. The terrain's
too tough. The hill's too large. The valley's
too deep. They will stop. Why? Because
they see no prize ahead of them, which is Christ. The Christian
on the other side realizes this is a divinely set course by God
who is good and merciful and mighty and that the prize is
Jesus Christ so therefore they run the race regardless of how
difficult and trying that race might be, they run the race.
Big difference. So that's the race set before
us. But something else in Paul's description here in Hebrews chapter
12. He said, let us run with patience the race that is set before us.
It's an odd word for a race, isn't it? Can you imagine the coach telling
this marathon runner, I want you to run. The goal is to win. You need to win, but be patient. What in the world do you mean
by that? How can I be patient and win the race? You see, this
race is different. Listen to me. Strange, some might
think, that patience in a race, yet in this divinely ordained
and appointed and spiritual race, Paul says patience is the key
to faithfully finishing our course. And let me tell you something,
if you've ran this course for any amount of time as a Christian,
I think you can bear witness to what Paul is saying. You got
to have patience. Sometimes the race don't go according
to what we plan, and you got to be patient. You see, the Christian's race
in this present world is not a sprint. It's a marathon. When Paul said he finished his
course, when you read that text, it's almost as though you can
hear Paul with everything he describes he experienced as a
preacher and as a Christian. It's almost as though you can
hear Paul say, I finished my course. Have you ever seen a
runner after a marathon race? He's not crossing that finish
line going, yippee, yay. He might be excited, but he's
going. He's exhausted. You know what happens when a
Christian begins to reach the end of that course? He begins to be spiritually exhausted. Oh, he's not losing his energy,
but the goal is so much closer now. And it's like, oh God, I want to
cross that finish line. The only thing he's got in his
mind is that finish line. I want to cross that line. I want to get that crown. I want to go home. You know,
one of the last things Mr. Brady said to me, I think, if
I'm not mistaken, besides some of these staff maybe, I think
I was the last one that spoke with him. He looked at me and
he says, I want to go home. And I said, home out at Santa
Ana? He said, no. I want to go home. Why? He was a runner who had finished
his race. He wanted to go home. You see, this is a good race
to run. Man, I wish I could open up my heart to you young people
and those who are younger in the Lord, who have still many,
if the Lord doesn't return, many years to live. It's a good race.
I can't tell you it's always going to be easy. I can't tell
you there's not going to be some tears and heartaches along the
way. That's part of the race. I can't tell you there won't
be many mountains. And I can't tell you there won't be very
deep valleys. But let me tell you something
from a runner who's quickly approaching that finish line. It is worth
the race. The run is worth it. because
of the high prize of God in Christ Jesus. The run is worth it. But you have to run it in patience. It's not a sprint. Therefore,
Paul says much patience is needed if we're to finish our divinely
appointed course and not burn out. or become weary and faint
in our minds. He mentions that later on. Look to Christ, let you be faint
in your mind. And that's where the runner in
this race weakens, when you grow faint in your mind. Your mind can be a devastating
thing, not just your heart, it's desperately wicked. But your
mind, here it doesn't say your heart, your mind lets you grow
faint in your mind. You gotta be patient. Now, did older Christians know
that when they began this race? Are you kidding? Man, I shot
out of that box, I mean, like a racehorse. And I thought, man,
I'm gonna charge hell with a water pistol. Boy, did I learn fast. So I'm always weary of young
Christians who talk a lot about God. I'm always like, ooh. Be careful
what you're saying. Do you have any idea what you're
talking? As you grow older in the Lord,
you're not so quick to voice how great your faith is. Because you learn that your faith
is really weaker than you ever thought it was. Your knowledge
is never what it used to be or thought it was. And what you
thought you knew about Christ is nothing. compared to who Christ
is. The race is not to the swift,
Ecclesiastes 9 says, it's not to the swift. Because the swift can't persevere
in this divinely ordained race, but the patient can. So when you find yourself on
your course on a very rugged part, Maybe the terrain is uneven
or the hill begins to get pretty steep. Pace yourself and be patient. Keep going, but be patient. Don't get frustrated. Amen? Don't just get disgruntled. Things
didn't work out my way. Be patient. The swift, usually the young
and the eager believer, will soon grow faint and weary. For
he often overestimates his own strength and relies too much
in his own abilities. Patience is not a virtue he has
come to appreciate or value yet. That's why Paul says about a
preacher, don't let it be a novice, he'll be lifted up in pride and
the devil will be careful about that. So run it with patience.
Be patient, be patient. I know it's hard. I don't think anybody's conquered
patience yet. You've heard that old saying, people say, give
me patience. And people say, watch out. You know how you learn
patience, right? Try in your faith, work with patience. So
when you ask for patience, do it wisely. God, as you seem fit. But as you grow in grace and
knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, and you begin to
get further down this course that God set before you, you
begin to learn that. You might not have learned at
the beginning, you're like that young believer, you got out of
the gates as fast as you can, and you didn't pace yourself,
and you found out you fell on your face. You get back up and
you say, I'm gonna be a little bit more cautious this time,
I'm gonna be more patient. Have you found, and I hope you
have, listen to me, have you found as you grow older in the
Lord, Have you found that your patience also has gotten stronger
and greater? Your trials don't cause you so
much affliction or trouble as they did before. Oh, they're
still there and you're still troubled by them, but they don't
seem to overwhelm you as much. That's what patience is. You meet a trial, you say, okay,
this hill's gonna, you see the hill before you. Something's
happened in your life, there's a mighty hill before me, God.
I'm gonna have to pace myself and be patient. But by your grace,
I'll make it over this hill. And you run. And you're patient. And even
though your spiritual legs begin to weary, and your breath begins to be
heavy, you continue on. You know what I found years ago
when I ran? I don't run as much now as before in Germany. I used
to run every day when I was a full-time pastor, five kilometers. Which
is what? Three miles? Something like that?
Every day in the vineyard. It's beautiful. You know what
I found? When you first start out running, it's kind of hard.
But once you get in that and you get that rhythm and you get
your breathing down, You could run all day. It feels like you
could run all day. Now I can't run half a mile,
but it feels like you could run all day. Why? Because you've
learned to pace yourself and your breathing. And so you just,
so is this race. Once you've started and you begin
with the race, maybe you started a little bit too quick, but you
quickly learn, I need to pace myself. I need to be patient
in this race. Isaiah 40 says this, Even the
youth shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly
fall. But they that wait, patience,
listen, they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength. Notice he says the word renew.
He doesn't give them strength. He renews the strength they had.
We learn in this race when we wait on God, He will renew our
strength. He will freshen us up. He will
quicken us. That word's used a lot in Psalms.
Quicken thou me according to thy word. Quicken. So the believer waits for God
to quicken him, renew his strength. They shall mount up with wings
as eagles. They shall run and not be weary. And they shall
walk. and not faint. Who? Those who run this race in patience. Preachers, you don't know, I've
been climbing this hill for a while. It doesn't seem like I'm getting any, any,
any way down this road. Seems like I'm stuck in the same
place. I have been. Be patient. Let me tell you,
let me tell you, when God renews your strength, and you begin
to run anew with new strength, you'll thank God for that time
you had to wait and be patient on God. But run the race. You know, like our Lord said
in Luke chapter 21, with patience you possess your souls. That
is, in all our afflictions, is what he's talking about, and
trials. Don't let them disturb or trouble your souls. You possess
them by patience. Don't let all your troubles and
afflictions disturb you. Be patient. That's very hard
to learn. We learn that by the trying of
our faith. But he said, you possess your souls in patience. So too
with the same patience, Paul says we must run this divinely
appointed course Not allowing the often difficult and trying
courses to disturb or trouble us, but keep running. Stop complaining. Stop murmuring. The way is too
hard. The road is too rough. I am too
tired. Don't you think every Christian
has that same affliction when running this race? Oh, believe
me, I'm not telling you that even as older Christians, I'm
not telling you that we don't sometimes go, Lord, I'm tired.
We do. But you run it with patience. Look in Psalm 27, and I'll bring
this to a close. Psalm 27, for now. We're gonna look next
week at some more things. Psalm 27, waiting on the Lord,
being patient is healthy. Psalm 27, verse 13. Again, I had fainted. There's that word, you know,
and they say that's not in the original. Of course, you can
see the words that King James put them in there. But I had
fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the Lord
in the land of the living, in the land of the living. Some
say that's in heaven, some say here, we're not gonna refute
that now, but unless I had believed to see the goodness of the Lord
in the land of the living. Wait on the Lord, be of good courage
and he shall strengthen thine heart. Wait, I say, on the Lord,
be patient, be patient. And you know what patience is,
biblically defined, it's not, murmuring, complaining, it's
having a spirit that is calm, submissive, patiently waiting
on God. Again, the runner in the race
learns that as he's running the course. You remember when Israelites were at the Red Sea?
Pharaoh was behind them, mountains around them, Red Sea in front
of them. They were trapped. God led them there. It's a sermon
of itself. God led them right there. He
said, Moses, you go here. God knew that he was going to trap
them in. When they were there trapped, God said to Moses, tell
the people to fear not. Stand still. Like, where were
they going to go? Stand still and see the salvation
of the Lord. He didn't mean physically stand
still. He's talking about be still in your heart and your
soul. Be patient, be still. Stand still so that you might
see the salvation of the Lord. But you know what he said immediately
after that? That was in verse 13 of Exodus chapter 14. You
know what he said in verse 15? He said immediately after that,
he said, now speak unto the children after I have told them to stand
still. You tell the children that they go forward. And you say, you just told us
to stand still. No, stand still in yourself,
in your heart, in your mind, but you always go forward. And
you know you'll find out when you're running this race, you
know what you're going to find out? You're going to find out that God will
always give you the strength and the grace to keep going.
You won't know why or how in the world God does that, but
you'll always find the strength to keep going. You know that? The course God has set for you
and I is distinct and specific to your needs. what God wants
you to learn and know and to mine. My course might be utterly
different than yours. You might have to fight a lion.
I might not. You might have to face a Goliath.
I might not. But believe me, this course was
divinely with the greatest wisdom and knowledge and grace and love. This course was ordained by God
for you and for me. So I say, run it. But again,
that was the race and the temperament or the character of the runner.
There are some things that Paul says you've got to do when you
run this way. He said you've got to lay aside every weight. Anything that bears you down. A runner can't run with a backpack.
In fact, you know, a lot of them shave the hairs on their bodies
so they can run faster. Anything and everything that
will hinder you from running, get rid of it. Even though it
is of itself not unlawful nor sinful, if it weighs you down
from running, you get rid of it. And he specifies those sins that
easily beset you. He specifically says not every
sin, but those sins that easily. Those ones you and I tend to
overlook, like not being bad, but they cause us to stumble. Lay aside every weight, lay it
aside, and the sin would so easily beset us. And then he goes on
to say, looking unto Jesus. Amazing race. This is an amazing
race. May God give us grace to run
it faithfully, patiently, being inspired by this cloud of witnesses,
but looking unto Jesus. God give us grace to run it with
patience. Amen. Let's pray. Heavenly Father,
we thank you, Lord, for your word. We thank you, Lord, how it instructs
us in this divinely appointed race. And I pray that, Father,
you would help us to be reminded, Lord, of these words of the apostle
that, Lord, we would run with patience this race that you have
set before us. Lord, I pray that when we grow
weary and on fear of fainting on this course that you've set
for us, I pray that you'd strengthen us, renew our strength. And Lord,
help us, Lord God, we pray to continue in this race until we
reach the final course. Help us, Lord, to realize we'll
never run this race if our eyes are taken off Christ. We must
ever be looking unto you, ever looking unto Christ if we're
going to finish this race. Lord, be honored and glorified
in all that we say and do. We ask these things in Christ's
name. Amen.
Let Us Run With Patience the Race Set Before Us, Looking Unto Jesus
| Sermon ID | 92825165116422 |
| Duration | 50:20 |
| Date | |
| Category | Sunday Service |
| Bible Text | Hebrews 11:39-12:2 |
| Language | English |
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