1. We worked again the testimony of the nature of saving faith according to the discussion in Hebrews 11.
2. The sinner shall only be deemed as pleasing by God, will overcome all the way to the end because of faith alone in Christ alone.
3. But looking at the testimony of the Hebrews Hall of Faith, one may be led to think that those believers caused their own faith and their endurance or their good report with God. NO, they did not!
4. How then? They had faith and made it to the end because they FIXED their eyes on Jesus. And that to say-One overcomes only who keeps their eyes STAYED on Jesus, His person and work as COMPLETE and SUFFICIENT.
5. The believer has this cloud of witnesses-who went before them-but they are not there CHEERING them on in this race of the Christian faith. That was not the point. Dead people do not come back to cheer you in your race. Rather, they are a cloud of witnesses in so far as they teach or remind the believer of how they ran their race to the end.
6. But even with that-the believer is to look to Christ who is the cause (author and finisher) of the faith that endures to the end.
7. The believer is exhorted to consider the Christian life and struggle as a race. And that is Olympics language-which Paul was also fond of using. And to run this race one has to be mindful of weights or things that hinder their running and there are many.
8. But then, there is the SIN that easily entangles and we discussed what that is…
9. But why this section? Because the believer is going to experience trials of different kinds in their Christian walk and Christ and the cross has to be the proper and only legitimate way to look at them-if one is
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