Give up, or Endure?

Give up, or Endure?

Dave Riddle - 6/16/2024

Key Passages: Hebrews 12:1-13

Look at the winners

- Hebrews 12:1

- A great cloud of witnesses

- Those mentioned in Hebrews 11

- Examples from your own life.

Look at yourself

- What is weighing you down?

- Hebrews 12:1

- Let us lay aside every hindrance

- Not necessarily sinful or evil things.

- Possibly even things we would consider to be good things.

- And the sin that so easily ensnares us.

- What is the sin that ensnares you?

- Unbelief?

Run with endurance

- Hebrews 12:1

- Look at the winners

- Look at yourself

- Throw off whatever weighs you down

- Look at Jesus!

Look at Jesus

- Hebrews 12:2

- The finisher!

- Jesus struggled, but he finished the task.

- He had the steady determination to keep going.

- He endured the cross.

- It is finished!

- Why did he endure?

- So that you won’t grow weary and lose heart (12:3)

Remember His Love

- Hebrews 12:5-6

- Don’t lose heart

- Don’t disregard what God is doing (discipline)

- Hebrews 12:7-8

- Discipline = training/raising/instructing/correcting a child.

- Hebrews 12:9-10

- The reason we receive discipline/training is for our benefit. To share in His holiness.

- Hebrews 12:11

- So that we may produce fruit

Never give up

- Hebrews 12:12-13

- Stay strong in the Lord and resolute in your faith in Him.