Victory Over Besetting Sin

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Victory Over Besetting Sin
Topic

• Text Hebrews 121
• Rev Ho Chee Lai

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I. Run without Encumbrance

• Our Christian living on earth is likened to
  running a race.

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I. Run without Encumbrance

• Weights Not necessary an evil but things which
  weigh us down.
• - We need to be careful that our Christian
  race is not choked with the things and cares of
  this world. Apply Love not the world and be
  not deceived by its riches (Mk. 419 1Jn.
  215).

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I. Run without Encumbrance

• Weights Not necessary an evil but things which
  weigh us down.
• - Little weights can turn into heavy burdens
  if we continue to carry them for a long time.
  The fatal mistake of the believer is to seek to
  bear lifes burden all by himself. Apply Cast
  them unto Jesus He cares for you (Matt.
  1128 Ps. 5522 1Pet. 57).

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I. Run without Encumbrance

• Sins euperistatos (trans. which doth so easily
  beset) well standing around a competitor
  thwarting another in every direction.
• - Besetting sin subtle in its approach,
  disguised in its character, and difficult to be
  identified.

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I. Run without Encumbrance

• Sins euperistatos (trans. which doth so easily
  beset) well standing around a competitor
  thwarting another in every direction.
• - Apply We fall in our race and backslide from
  the Lord not because of major and cardinal sins
  but little besetting sins in our lives (Song
  215).

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II. Run with Endurance

• The recipe to the successful completion
  patience
• - hupomone endurance when pressed by
  circumstances of trials and sufferings in life.
• - agon (trans. race) conflict (2), fight
  (2), and contention (1).

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II. Run with Endurance

• Apply Our Christian race will take our whole
  lifetime to complete, often grueling and
  agonizing. Many started the race well but finish
  poorly because of the lack of endurance (Jn.
  666 Matt. 2413).

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III. Run with Encouragement

• A great cloud of witnesses (ref. Heb. 1133-38)
• - Not a call to COMPETITION but a call to
  COMPLETION.
• - Not SPECTATORS OF our race but EXAMPLES FOR
  our race.
• - They had completed their race an
  encouragement unto us.

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III. Run with Encouragement

• Jesus is our perfect example to emulate looking
  unto Jesus
• Apply Turn your eyes away from the things of
  the world and focus on Christ. Only Jesus can
  help us to have victory over besetting sins and
  to finish the race.