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Apr 14, 2024

Hebrews: Looking to Jesus (part 2)

Passage: Hebrews 12:1-3

Speaker: Brian Land

Series: Hebrews: Fulfilled in Christ

Category: Grace Brevard

Keywords: faith, race, endurance, looking to jesus

Last week we began this pivotal passage, this week we'll finish it by seeing how our "race" is simply our life of following Jesus, which means that our main vision, focus, motivation and power is nothing less than Jesus himself, who is the ONE who has perfectly endured and is perfectly (and eternally) victorious. So we keep our eyes on him in the everyday-life of faith as we strive, stumble and, in the end, get carried across the final finish line.

CENTRAL PASSAGE

11:39 And all these, though commended through their faith, did not receive what was promised, 40 since God had provided something better for us, that apart from us they should not be made perfect.

12:1 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.

3 Consider him who endured from sinners such hostility against himself, so that you may not grow weary or fainthearted.

 

SERMON DISCUSSION QUESTIONS

  • Read this passage all together.
  • Is there a video that hit home with you?
  • How do we tend toward critic rather than the “man in the arena”
  • Run with VISION:
    • Looking to Jesus - what’s our focus (behavior, results, heaven?)
      • What things do you tend to “strive” for?
    • Author and Perfecter - How does Jesus dual-role give us hope?
      • Read Phil 1:6 together...
        • Does this take away our motivation to even try?
    • Who for the JOY...
      • What does the cross have to do with all of this?
      • Why did Jesus do what he did?
    • SEATED - What does it mean for Jesus to be seated?
  • How/When you feel weary in your “race”
    • What tends to help? What causes it? (2 Cor 4:17)
  • How can knowing that Jesus has fully won impact us today?
  • How does this all play out in REAL LIFE?