INTRO: There is a message I have preached a number of times that I wrote while I was still in Bible school. I titled the message, The Race, The Runner and the Ribbon. I'm not sure what I have changed or added since but it is still basically the same. It is a message of encouragement, and I want to give it again this morning. I gave it at Tompkins some 9 years ago and some of you may remember some of it, but I trust it will come as new encouragement.
This epistle called ‘Hebrews' was written to Hebrew speaking people. They were Jews who had become Christians and now they were looking back at where they had come from with longing eyes. Life was not easy for them as Christians and now, from all the warnings given in the book, we conclude they were in danger of apostatizing. And the writer of this epistle exhorts and warns and encourages them to get on with their Christian walk because Jesus Christ, the Lord, is superior to everything else. So in 12:12 he says, “Therefore strengthen the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees, and make straight paths for your feet, so that what is lame may not be dislocated, but rather healed.”
I too, get tired sometimes. There are times when, subtly, there run through my mind thoughts of retreat. I get tired and worn down and then I begin to think, “How could I get out of this all?” Every once in a while I need encouragement. Maybe that is where you are this morning. May the Lord encourage us from this passage this morning to move onward and upward.
SERMON ACTIVITY
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