Running the Race of Your Life

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Running the Race of Your Life

• Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so
  great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside
  every weight, and the sin which so easily
  ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the
  race that is set before us, looking unto Jesus,
  the author and finisher of our faith, who for the
  joy that was set before Him endured the cross,
  despising the shame, and has sat down at the
  right hand of the throne of God. Hebrews
  121,2

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Running the Race of Your Life

• Everyone is invited to run the race.
• Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy
  laden, and I will give you rest. Take My yoke
  upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and
  lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your
  souls. For My yoke is easy and My burden is
  light. Matthew 1128-30

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Running the Race of Your Life

• In order to run the race, you must enter the
  race.
• So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by
  the word of God. Romans 1017
• Therefore I said to you that you will die in
  your sins for if you do not believe that I am
  He, you will die in your sins. John 824

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Running the Race of Your Life

• In order to run the race, you must enter the
  race.
• Truly, these times of ignorance God overlooked,
  but now commands all men everywhere to repent.
  Acts 1730
• For with the heart one believes unto
  righteousness, and with the mouth confession is
  made unto salvation. Romans 1010

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Running the Race of Your Life

• In order to run the race, you must enter the
  race.
• For you are all sons of God through faith in
  Christ Jesus. For as many of you as were baptized
  into Christ have put on Christ. Galatians
  326,27
• Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus
  Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual
  blessing in the heavenly places in Christ.
  Ephesians 13

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Running the Race of Your Life

• All must run on the established track or be
  disqualified.
• Only be strong and very courageous, that you may
  observe to do according to all the law which
  Moses My servant commanded you do not turn from
  it to the right hand or to the left, that you may
  prosper wherever you go. Joshua 17

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Running the Race of Your Life

• All must run on the established track or be
  disqualified.
• All authority has been given to Me in heaven
  and on earth. Go therefore and make disciples of
  all the nations, baptizing them in the name of
  the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,
  teaching them to observe all things that I have
  commanded you. Matthew 2818-20

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Running the Race of Your Life

• All who run the race must abide by its rules.
• Not everyone who says to Me, 'Lord, Lord,' shall
  enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the
  will of My Father in heaven. Matthew 721

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Running the Race of Your Life

• All who run the race must abide by its rules.
• And also if anyone competes in athletics, he is
  not crowned unless he competes according to the
  rules. 2 Timothy 25

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Running the Race of Your Life

• You must run the race until itsfinished.
• You ran well. Who hindered you from obeying the
  truth? Galatians 57
• And let us not grow weary while doing good, for
  in due season we shall reap if we do not lose
  heart. Galatians 69

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Running the Race of Your Life

• You must run the race until itsfinished.
• That you do not become sluggish, but imitate
  those who through faith and patience inherit the
  promises. Hebrews 612
• ... Be faithful until death, and I will give you
  the crown of life. Revelation 210

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Running the Race of Your Life

• As you runremain focused on the finish line.
• But Jesus said to him, No one, having put his
  hand to the plow, and looking back, is fit for
  the kingdom of God. Luke 962
• Brethren, I do not count myself to have
  apprehended but one thing I do, forgetting those
  things which are behind and reaching forward to
  those things which are ahead. Philippians 313

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Running the Race of Your Life
CHRIST Will Judge the Race
He who rejects Me, and does not receive My
words, has that which judges him--the word that I
have spoken will judge him in the
last day. John 1248
Romans 1412 2 Corinthians 510
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Running the Race of Your Life

• There is a prize for all who endure to the end.
• I have fought the good fight, I have finished
  the race, I have kept the faith. Finally, there
  is laid up for me the crown of righteousness,
  which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will give to
  me on that Day, and not to me only but also to
  all who have loved His appearing. 2 Timothy
  47,8

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Running the Race of Your Life

• There is a prize for all who endure to the end.
• Therefore, my beloved brethren, be steadfast,
  immovable, always abounding in the work of the
  Lord, knowing that your labor is not in vain in
  the Lord. 1 Corinthians 1558

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Running the Race of Your Life

• There is a prize for all who endure to the end.
• Holding fast the word of life, so that I may
  rejoice in the day of Christ that I have not run
  in vain or labored in vain. Philippians 216
• But I discipline my body and bring it into
  subjection, lest, when I have preached to others,
  I myself should become disqualified. 1
  Corinthians 927

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Running the Race of Your Life

• Are you in the race?
• If not, why not enter today?
• Dont be left sitting on the sidelines when the
  judge comes.