Running the Race With Endurance

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Running the Race With Endurance
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The Setting Message of Hebrews- Jesus Christs
Supremacy Historical Context- Greek Roman
games
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• How to Run Well
• Get in the Race

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• Grace Bible Church
• Mission Statement
• Raising Up
• Next Generation
• Leaders
• to Reach Our World
• for Christ

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• How to Run Well
• Get in the Race
• Watch Out for Obstacles
• a. Encumbrances
• b. Entanglements
• c. Discouragement

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• How to Run Well
• Get in the Race
• Watch Out for Obstacles
• Run With Endurance
• Stay Focused on Jesus

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How God Trains Us to Run Well The Fathers
Discipline (124-13)
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• Suffering is a normal part of the Christian life
• that I may know Him, and the power of His
  resurrection, and the fellowship of his
  sufferings, being conformed to His death.
  (Philippians 310)
• Go, for he is a chosen instrument of Mine, to
  bear My name before the Gentiles and kings and
  the sons of Israel for I will show him how much
  he must suffer for My names sake. (Acts 915-16)

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• God whispers to us in our pleasure, speaks in
  our conscience, but shouts in our pains it is
  His megaphone to rouse a deaf world.
• C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain.