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Endure With Joy: Running the Race for Christ

Embrace endurance with joy, look to Jesus as our guide, and cast off sin to run our race. Find strength in the power of faith and be uplifted by Christ's love and presence.

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Endure With Joy: Running the Race for Christ

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  1. Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, 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, 2 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.Hebrews 12:1-2 ESV

  2. 36 For you have need of endurance, so that when you have done the will of God you may receive what is promised.Hebrews 10:36 ESV

  3. 24 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. 25 Every athlete exercises self-control in all things. They do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable. 26 So I do not run aimlessly1 Corinthians 9:24-26a ESV

  4. Chiasm • A • B • C • C’ • B’ • A’

  5. Therefore… • A – Seated around us is such a great cloud of witnesses • B – Lay aside every weight and sin that clings • C – With endurance • D – Run the race set before us • E – Keeping our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of our faith • D’ – Who for the joy set before Him • C’ – Endured the cross • B’ – Despising shame • A’ – Seated at the right hand of the throne of God

  6. The greatest labor of love that ever happened was possible because Jesus pursued the greatest imaginable joy, namely, the joy of being exalted to God’s right hand in the assembly of a redeemed peopleJohn Piper

  7. 2 My brothers and sisters, consider it nothing but joy when you fall into all sorts of trials, 3 because you know that the testing of your faith produces endurance. 4 And let endurance have its perfect effect, so that you will be perfect and complete, not deficient in anything.James 1:2-4 NET

  8. 29 He gives power to the faint, and to him who has no might he increases strength. 30 Even youths shall faint and be weary, and young men shall fall exhausted; 31 but they who wait for the Lordshall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint.Isaiah 40:29-31 ESV

  9. Christ with me, Christ before me, Christ behind me, Christ in me, Christ beneath me, Christ above me,Christ on my right, Christ on my left,Christ where I lie, Christ where I sit, Christ where I arise,Christ in the heart of everyone who thinks of me,Christ in the mouth of every one who speaks to me,Christ in every eye that sees me,Christ in every ear that hears me.St. Patrick

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