The Race
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Let the games begin!
Let the games begin!
*** Olympic rings
776 BC to 393 AD — 1169 years
776 BC to 393 AD — 1169 years
The stade (192m footrace)
Diaulos (400m footrace)
Dolichos (longer: 1500m or 5000m)
Pentathalon (footrace, long jump, discus, javelin wrestling)
Chariot racing (The Nero incident)
***No slide: The point, the olympic games were well known in the ancient world
***Di-OW-los
***DAH-lick-ohs
***Next: ISS-me-an
The Isthmian Games
The Isthmian Games
Held a few miles outside of Corinth, the local games everyone Paul wrote to would have been familiar with.
A race metaphor
A race metaphor
*** Image: Start of a marathon
*** Image: Car race
*** Image: Pinewood Derby
In the same way, the Lord commanded that those who proclaim the gospel should get their living by the gospel.
Be all in
Be all in
*** Slide All In
*** Story about my race: Didn’t train for it.
*** You won’t win, you won’t flourish as a follower of Jesus if you’re not all in
Train diligently
Train diligently
Athletes exercise self-control in all things; they do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable one.
***Slide Training weightlifting
*** Do the work of preparing beforehand
*** A trophy is good, even better to serve God and hear the words, “Well done, good and faithful servant.”
Stay qualified
Stay qualified
but I punish my body and enslave it, so that after proclaiming to others I myself should not be disqualified.
***Slide: Disqualified
*** Only when the race is over is the race really over. We could get disqualified before!
Win the crown
Win the crown
Do you not know that in a race the runners all compete, but only one receives the prize? Run in such a way that you may win it.
From now on there is reserved for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will give me on that day, and not only to me but also to all who have longed for his appearing.
Slide: Crown
*** There’s not only one crown. A crown for everyone who runs the race like it matters.
*** Slide: Cub Scouts thanks for being here!
Be all in
Train hard
Stay qualified
Be one of those who works to win!