Hebrews 12:1 Summary: The Christian life is compared to a race with Christ as the goal of our life, our coach, and the umpire at the finish line. Lessons:
1. DITCH DISTRACTIONS: Our lives as believers are always shaped by the great doctrines of putting off the flesh and putting on Christ. This is Paul’s great word apotitheme (Rom. 13:12; Eph. 4:22; Col. 3:8) also used by others James 1:21; I Peter 2:1).
2. DEAL WITH BESETTING SINS: we have things that trip us up lying all around unless we are confronting our lives regularly. This word explains what is often our problem. Euperistatos means “good around standing.” This refers to sins we allow to have good standing in our lives. Sins that are not threatened by constant applications of spiritual Roundup spray.
3. WE’VE ALREADY WON: The word “endurance” is hupomone, and it is best known from Isaiah 40:31. Those who “wait” on the Lord get the strength to do what would never otherwise be possible. It is possible to ditch those besetting sins and to finish even a hard race. Christ is the goal, the Coach, and the Umpire, and He’s already gone to the Cross to make us able to finish the race!
4. LIFE IS HARD: The word “race” says it all. It is the word for the long, gut-wrenching endurance race performed in an arena surrounded by spectators. It is the word agon. Life is an agonizing race. It hurts, and it’s hard, but Christ at the finish line, beside us as Coach, makes it all possible.
Application: Lord, help me to grasp you as the goal of my life, I want to follow your training as my Coach, and I look forward to you as the Umpire who watches me cross the finish line and place the Crown of Life on my head by your grace. (BC&D-05)
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