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Heritage Message
September 4, 2005
Hebrews 12:1-13
Run With Perseverance
! Introduction
- “BE NICE TO ME.
I HAD A HARD DAY”
- "How can you tell this early in the morning?"
- Craig Larson - “the Boston Marathon,
o Heartbreak Hill.
o mile thirteen - a number of hills,
o climaxing at mile nineteen with Heartbreak Hill.
o longest, steepest hill in the race.
o world-class runners "hit the wall" around mile eighteen or nineteen.
§ depleted the glycogen stored in the muscles
§ replaced with lactic acid.
§ muscles are screaming for oxygen.
o Heartbreak Hill tests runners to the very core of their determination\
- Heartbreak Hills in life.
- Life is not on a level grade.
- We have problems.
We have bigger problems.
- at times we face Heartbreak Hill.
\\ - your “heartbreak hill?”
o persecution.
o illness
o relationships
o loneliness, fear and loss.
o death
- Hebrews 12:1 - “run with perseverance.”
o sometimes life is tough
o requires perseverance.
o “the race marked out for us”
§ each of us has a different path
§ we are all in this race
§ we all need to persevere.
- What are the perspectives which can help us?
- What point of view is important?
- The rest of the passage helps answer that question.
!
I. Consider Him Hebrews 12:2-4
- ill-fated mission of Apollo 13,
- critical course correction.
- If they failed, they might never return to Earth.
- shut down the onboard computer
- a thirty-nine-second burn of the main engines.
- How to steer?
- Jim Lovell determined that if they could keep a fixed point
- focal point turned out to be their destination--Earth.
- 1995's hit movie, Apollo 13,
- By not losing sight of that reference point, the three astronauts avoided disaster.
- Hebrews 12 -the fixed reference point that we need to “run with perseverance.”
o Verse 2 - “let us fix our eyes on Jesus.”
o verse 3 - “consider Him.”
- How does considering Jesus help us “run with perseverance?”
!! A. Christ Endured
- Hebrews 11 - heroes of faith - persevered
o Abraham longed for a country not his own,
o Moses left the pleasures of royal life in Egypt
o an encouragement.
- example of Jesus
- What does His life and example teach us about difficulty and suffering?
- text - Jesus “endured the cross, scorning its shame.”
- What did that mean for Jesus?
o physical suffering
o cannot dismiss the suffering - he was God
§ Jesus was fully human and suffered physical suffering as much as any of us do.
o spiritual suffering
§ He was God
§ the sinless one taking the sins of the world upon Himself
§ we will ever experience and can hardly imagine.
o Jesus endured the cross.
o willing to experience it and of course, He did it for us.
!! B. Look To Him
- How does this suffering of Jesus encourage us to endure?
- we have not suffered as much as Jesus suffered.
o verse 4 it - “you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your blood.”
§ encouraged to endure.
- He understands our suffering.
o He knows what we are going through.
o Anne Ortlund - “A young pastor friend has ... been through trial
§ recently, he asked me, "What do you do when God doesn't say yes--doesn't give it, doesn't make it happen?"
§ "Through agony I've gotten to know God better; I love him more.
..."
§ "Look to his face, not to his hand."
- What gave Jesus the ability to face such suffering?
o “who for the joy set before Him.”
o the hope and joy of what it would accomplish
o We have similar promises.
§ Looking to Jesus helps us because he has given us eternal life.
- vs.
3 says, to “not grow weary and lose heart.”
- perspective - looking to Jesus.
- I invite you to consider Him.
!
II.
Endure Hardship As Discipline 12:5-11
- another perspective in being able to “run with perseverance.”
!! A. The Lord Disciplines Those He Loves
- what it means to be parents.
- the love and concern we have for our children.
o When they do well, we are proud of them.
o When they struggle, we find it hard to watch.
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