Robert Jeffress - Spiritual Aerobics

January 28, 2025 | S25:E48

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Dr. Robert Jeffress | Robert Jeffress - Spiritual Aerobics | January 28, 2025
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  • [announcer] from the pulpit of the first baptist church
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  • Of dallas, texas, this is pathway to victory,
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  • With dr. robert jeffress.
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  • Hi, i'm robert jeffress,
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  • And welcome again to pathway to victory.
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  • The bible uses a helpful metaphor
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  • To depict the christian life.
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  • Scripture teaches us that life is a lot like running a race,
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  • And we're taught to run this race with the prize in mind.
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  • So how do we develop the spiritual legs
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  • To finish and even win the race?
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  • Well, today i'll introduce you
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  • To faithful men and women who showed us the way.
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  • My message is titled, 'spiritual aerobics,'
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  • At the age of five,
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  • Shelly mann suffered from polio so badly
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  • That she could barely move a muscle in her body.
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  • Her mother would put her in the swimming pool
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  • Just to get some circulation running,
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  • Running between her arms and her legs.
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  • The day she lifted an arm out of the water,
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  • Shelly cried not because of the evident pain,
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  • But because that action represented
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  • A major victory in her life.
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  • Shelly then made it her goal
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  • That she would try to swim 30 feet,
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  • The width of her swimming pool.
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  • For months she struggled through numbness
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  • And pain to make it across the pool.
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  • Finally, she did it, but she didn't stop there.
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  • She wasn't content.
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  • She now made it her goal to swim the length of the pool.
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  • After struggling for months, she made it,
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  • But she didn't stop there,
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  • She tried to make it two, three, four, five times.
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  • Years later shelly mann went on
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  • To win eight american records in swimming,
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  • And became the greatest woman's swimmer
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  • In the australian 1952 olympics.
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  • This same shelly mann, the former polio victim,
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  • Went on to win the gold medal.
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  • You know, shelly mann had a handicap
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  • In life that would be enough for most of us
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  • To throw in the towel.
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  • But not shelly, she was a winner.
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  • She was a finisher,
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  • Because she possessed that invaluable quality of endurance.
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  • And it's that same quality of endurance
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  • That the bible says we must possess,
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  • If we're going to win in the christian life.
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  • How do you develop endurance in your life?
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  • Well, the writer of hebrews answers that question
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  • In the passage we're going to look at today.
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  • If you have your bible's turned to hebrews 12,
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  • As we discover a lesson in spiritual aerobics.
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  • Hebrews 12.
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  • You know, the bible uses a number of different metaphors
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  • To describe the christian life.
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  • In 1 corinthians 9 paul says,
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  • The christian life is like a boxing match.
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  • We're boxers and we're not flailing our arms in the air,
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  • Trying to hit anything we can find,
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  • We have a specific target we're jabbing at.
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  • In ephesians 6 the apostle paul says,
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  • Our life is like a wrestling match,
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  • For our struggle, literally, our wrestling match
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  • Is not against flesh and blood,
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  • It's not against other people,
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  • It's against the unseen forces of darkness
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  • In the heavenly places,
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  • And that's why if we're going to win that wrestling match,
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  • We have to put on the full armor of god.
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  • But the most common metaphor in the bible
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  • For the christian life is a race.
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  • You find that, for example, in 1 corinthians 9,
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  • In galatians 5:7, in philippians 2:16,
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  • And here in hebrews 12.
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  • In what way is the christian life like a race?
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  • Two ways i have on your outline.
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  • First of all, the participants in both require endurance.
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  • In just a moment when we talk about running the race
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  • That is set before us,
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  • Paul is not, or the writer of hebrews isn't talking about
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  • A sprint or a dash, he's talking about a marathon.
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  • And if you're going to win in a marathon
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  • You have to have endurance, sustained energy.
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  • You know a runner, think about it,
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  • If he's going to run for any distance at all,
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  • He has to master external circumstances.
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  • It might be in clement weather,
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  • Or headwinds or the jeers of the crowd.
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  • He has to master those circumstances,
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  • But he also has internal challenges he's facing as well.
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  • Fatigue, pain, discouragement.
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  • It's the same way in the christian life.
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  • If we're going to master the christian life,
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  • We have to have endurance,
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  • In spite of the circumstances around us or within us.
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  • And any runner knows,
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  • It's not how you start the race that matters,
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  • It's how you finish the race.
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  • It's the same thing in our relationship with god.
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  • Don't you know people,
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  • Maybe you're one of the people,
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  • You started out great in your enthusiasm for god,
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  • But you've allowed temptation,
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  • Or you've allowed just the cares of everyday life
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  • To extinguish your passion you once had for christ.
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  • How do you prevent that from happening?
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  • How do you prevent starting out strong,
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  • But failing in your final years?
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  • You have to have endurance.
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  • Secondly, only the winners in either the christian life,
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  • Or in a race receive a reward.
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  • And again, the writer is talking about the greek marathon.
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  • Guess what?
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  • They didn't give out participation trophies back then.
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  • You didn't get credit just for running.
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  • No, there was a winner and the winner won something great,
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  • And most of the games, if you won the marathon
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  • You would be exempt from paying taxes the rest of your life.
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  • Now, wouldn't that be a great thing?
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  • No taxes, that is worth running for.
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  • Now, the writer of scripture says
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  • We have an even greater reward as christians awaiting us
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  • If we run with endurance.
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  • Well, how do you develop this kind of endurance
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  • That will help you win in your relationship with god?
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  • Let's look at the first three verses of hebrews 12.
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  • "therefore, since we have
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  • "so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us,
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  • "let us also lay aside every encumbrance,
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  • "and the sin would so easily entangles us,
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  • "and let us run with endurance
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  • "the race that is set before us, fixing our eyes on jesus,
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  • "the author and perfecter of faith,
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  • "who for the joy set before him endured the cross,
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  • "despising the shame and has sat down at the right hand
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  • "of the throne of god.
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  • "for considering him who has endured
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  • "such hostility by sinners against himself,
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  • "so that you will not grow weary and lose heart."
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  • Now, most of you will find grammar boring,
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  • But the grammar of this passage is key to understanding it.
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  • Did you know in these verses there's only one command
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  • It is, let us run with endurance.
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  • That's the command.
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  • The other what seem to be verbs,
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  • Are actually participles.
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  • Having a great crowd of witnesses,
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  • Laying aside every encumbrance,
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  • Fixing our eyes on jesus.
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  • Those are the three keys for endurance.
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  • Having a cloud of witnesses,
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  • Laying aside every encumbrance,
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  • Fixing our eyes on jesus.
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  • I want to turn those participles into three words,
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  • Each beginning with an r.
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  • Remember, remove and redirect.
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  • If we're going to succeed in our christian life,
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  • We first of all need to remember.
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  • Remember what?
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  • Remember our heroes who have gone on before us.
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  • Remember the heroes that went before us.
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  • Look at verse one,
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  • "therefore, since we have
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  • "so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us."
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  • What is he talking about?
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  • What cloud of witnesses?
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  • Well, it's the ones he just talked about in chapter 11.
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  • Remember in the original text, there was no chapter break.
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  • He has just spent the whole chapter talking about moses,
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  • And noah and rahab and abraham.
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  • And then he says, therefore,
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  • As you think about these heroes of the faith,
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  • Follow their example.
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  • Are you feeling ridiculed for your faith?
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  • People at work or school making fun of you
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  • Because of your commitment to christ?
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  • Remember noah who labored for 120 years building that ark
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  • In the middle of a desert,
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  • People made fun of him, but he remained faithful.
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  • Do you feel like god has forgotten his promise to you,
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  • He's not obeying his promise to you?
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  • Remember sarah, she was age 90
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  • When god finally fulfilled his promise to sarah.
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  • Are you feeling that you can't resist
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  • The temptation in your life much longer?
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  • Remember moses, who chose to endure
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  • The ill-treatment of god's people,
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  • Rather than to enjoy the passing pleasures of sin in egypt?
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  • Are you having difficulty letting go
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  • Of that one thing in your life
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  • That you know displeases god?
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  • Remember abraham who is willing to offer
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  • That which meant the most to him, his own son isaac,
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  • In order to please god.
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  • That's what he's talking about here.
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  • Secondly, we need to remove our obstacles.
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  • Remember our heroes, remove our obstacles.
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  • Look at verse one.
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  • "let us also lay aside every encumbrance,
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  • "and the sin which so easily entangles us."
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  • Now, this is a picture of a runner in a marathon race,
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  • Who says, you know what?
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  • If i'm going to succeed,
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  • I need to travel as lightly as possible.
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  • I need to take off any extraneous clothing
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  • So i can run as quickly as possible.
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  • Now, that's what he's talking about here,
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  • But what is it we're to lay aside?
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  • Well, it says first of all, every encumbrance.
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  • We might think that is a reference to sin in our life.
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  • No, it's not sin.
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  • Whatever he is talking about here is not sin.
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  • How do i know that?
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  • Because he mentioned sin,
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  • "and the sin what so easily entangles us."
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  • He's talking about taking off,
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  • Laying aside two things that would slow us down
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  • In our relationship with god.
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  • We understand what sin is.
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  • Sin is anything that trips you up
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  • In your relationship with god.
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  • But an encumbrance is anything that weighs you down
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  • In your relationship with god.
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  • For you laying aside an encumbrance
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  • Might be laying aside a friendship,
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  • For other people, it may be laying aside a hobby,
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  • That again, isn't wrong, but it distracts you.
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  • It keeps you from giving your all
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  • To your relationship with god.
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  • It's become a focus., maybe an idol in your life.
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  • Maybe it's television.
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  • Nothing wrong with television,
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  • But maybe it's keeping you from spending time with god.
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  • A person who really is intent on winning,
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  • Is going to lay aside anything that weighs him down.
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  • I remember reading an interview
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  • With the film director who just died this last year,
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  • Joel schumacher.
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  • He was the guy who directed
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  • The first batman and robin movie.
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  • And while he was directing that movie,
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  • They had a teenage actress named alicia silverstone.
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  • And throughout the filming of the movie
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  • He said she was battling with her weight,
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  • Trying to keep the weight off, and she wasn't succeeding,
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  • And the tabloids were having a field day criticizing her,
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  • And it really hurt her feelings and discouraged her.
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  • And so one day joel schumacher took her off to the side,
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  • And said, "alicia, there is absolutely nothing
  • 00:13:17.419 --> 00:13:21.690
  • "wrong with your weight.
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  • "there are plenty of teenage girls
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  • "who weigh exactly what you do."
  • 00:13:26.295 --> 00:13:29.164
  • And she started to kind of feel encouraged,
  • 00:13:29.164 --> 00:13:31.600
  • But then he said, "but alicia,
  • 00:13:31.600 --> 00:13:34.270
  • "if you're going to be a movie star,
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  • "you can't be like everybody else."
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  • Now don't send me any emails about that, okay?
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  • Oh, that's terrible, you know,
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  • We're not supposed to look on, you know, outward appearance.
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  • Man looks on the outward appearance, god looks on the heart.
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  • That's right.
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  • God does look on the heart,
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  • But it's also true, man looks on the outward appearance.
  • 00:13:53.255 --> 00:13:55.524
  • I mean, he was telling her a truth.
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  • If you want to be different than everybody else,
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  • You have to make certain sacrifices.
  • 00:14:00.129 --> 00:14:02.631
  • There may be things that are perfectly legal
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  • According to christianity.
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  • There's nothing in the bible against them,
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  • But you may come to the point that you say, you know what?
  • 00:14:09.638 --> 00:14:12.574
  • I can't do this if i'm going to succeed in the christian life,
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  • And i'm going to lay this aside, not because it's sinful,
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  • But because it's weighing me down.
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  • That's what he's talking about here,
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  • Laying aside every encumbrance.
  • 00:14:23.719 --> 00:14:27.056
  • And then he says, "also laying aside the sin
  • 00:14:27.056 --> 00:14:31.093
  • "that so easily entangles us."
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  • We all know what sin is.
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  • I imagine right now you can think of immediately
  • 00:14:36.198 --> 00:14:40.402
  • One thing in your life,
  • 00:14:40.402 --> 00:14:43.505
  • A relationship, an attitude,
  • 00:14:43.505 --> 00:14:46.909
  • A habit that you know is displeasing to god.
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  • The question is, are you ready to lay it aside?
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  • May i remind you that if god has already identified
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  • That one thing to you,
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  • And you had that desire to get rid of it,
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  • The same desire, the same power
  • 00:15:03.325 --> 00:15:06.495
  • That was able to raise jesus christ out of the grave,
  • 00:15:06.495 --> 00:15:09.465
  • Lives in you through the holy spirit of god.
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  • You have the desire, and whether or not you know,
  • 00:15:12.368 --> 00:15:14.970
  • You have the power right now to lay aside that sin
  • 00:15:14.970 --> 00:15:18.974
  • That is tripping you up in your relationship with god.
  • 00:15:18.974 --> 00:15:23.345
  • If we're going to be successful in the christian life,
  • 00:15:23.345 --> 00:15:26.115
  • We have to remove those obstacles,
  • 00:15:26.115 --> 00:15:28.484
  • Both sins and encumbrances.
  • 00:15:28.484 --> 00:15:33.088
  • When i was in high school,
  • 00:15:33.088 --> 00:15:36.392
  • I came across something, some words that so spoke to me
  • 00:15:36.392 --> 00:15:42.264
  • That i wrote them in the back of
  • 00:15:42.264 --> 00:15:44.867
  • My green hardback living bible.
  • 00:15:44.867 --> 00:15:47.136
  • Do you all remember the green hardback living bibles?
  • 00:15:47.136 --> 00:15:50.105
  • You're going to age yourself if you do,
  • 00:15:50.105 --> 00:15:52.174
  • But these were so popular.
  • 00:15:52.174 --> 00:15:54.009
  • And i took this bible to school with me every day.
  • 00:15:54.009 --> 00:15:57.713
  • And before i went to richardson high school,
  • 00:15:57.713 --> 00:16:00.783
  • There was a park across the street, cottonwood park,
  • 00:16:00.783 --> 00:16:03.752
  • And i would go and read my bible,
  • 00:16:03.752 --> 00:16:05.721
  • And then i would read these words i'd written
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  • In the back of my bible.
  • 00:16:08.791 --> 00:16:10.325
  • It's titled, 'the man god uses.'
  • 00:16:10.325 --> 00:16:15.064
  • What kind of person does god use?
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  • Number one, he has but one great purpose in life.
  • 00:16:16.999 --> 00:16:23.338
  • Number two, he has placed himself absolutely
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  • At god's disposal.
  • 00:16:26.608 --> 00:16:29.745
  • Number three, he has learned how to prevail in prayer.
  • 00:16:29.745 --> 00:16:33.949
  • Number four, he is a student of the word of god.
  • 00:16:33.949 --> 00:16:38.921
  • Number five, he has a vital message for a lost world.
  • 00:16:38.921 --> 00:16:44.860
  • Number six, he is a man of faith who expects results.
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  • Number seven, he works in the anointing of the holy spirit.
  • 00:16:50.532 --> 00:16:54.369
  • And number eight, he by god's grace
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  • Has removed every hindrance from his life.
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  • Have you done that?
  • 00:17:04.246 --> 00:17:06.381
  • Have you, through god's grace and power,
  • 00:17:06.381 --> 00:17:09.718
  • Removed everything that is weighing down
  • 00:17:09.718 --> 00:17:12.087
  • In your relationship with god?
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  • That's the way you develop endurance.
  • 00:17:13.922 --> 00:17:18.026
  • What is the key to endurance?
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  • Remember our heroes, remove our obstacles,
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  • And number three, refocus our attention.
  • 00:17:25.000 --> 00:17:30.172
  • Refocus our attention and focus.
  • 00:17:30.172 --> 00:17:33.876
  • Look at verse two again, "fixing our eyes on jesus,
  • 00:17:33.876 --> 00:17:40.015
  • "the author and perfecter of faith,
  • 00:17:40.015 --> 00:17:41.917
  • "who for the joy set before him endured the cross,
  • 00:17:41.917 --> 00:17:45.220
  • "despising the shame and has sat down
  • 00:17:45.220 --> 00:17:47.489
  • "at the right hand of god.
  • 00:17:47.489 --> 00:17:48.991
  • "for consider him, jesus, who's endured
  • 00:17:48.991 --> 00:17:51.760
  • "such hostility by sinners against himself,
  • 00:17:51.760 --> 00:17:55.197
  • "so that you will not grow weary."
  • 00:17:55.197 --> 00:17:59.001
  • You know, focus is so important for a runner.
  • 00:17:59.001 --> 00:18:02.404
  • If a runner is focused on those in the stands,
  • 00:18:02.404 --> 00:18:05.741
  • He's going to become distracted.
  • 00:18:05.741 --> 00:18:07.809
  • If he focuses on his feet, he's going to become distracted.
  • 00:18:07.809 --> 00:18:12.548
  • What he's got to do is focus on the finish line,
  • 00:18:12.548 --> 00:18:15.184
  • And the prize.
  • 00:18:15.184 --> 00:18:16.818
  • And that's what he's saying here.
  • 00:18:16.818 --> 00:18:19.154
  • Steve farrar tells a great story in one of his books.
  • 00:18:19.154 --> 00:18:23.325
  • He said he has a friend who was a rower on the oxford crew.
  • 00:18:23.325 --> 00:18:28.297
  • Have you seen those long, sleek boats
  • 00:18:28.297 --> 00:18:31.667
  • That the oxford participants row in.
  • 00:18:31.667 --> 00:18:34.403
  • You've got this mass of sweating men and women in the ship,
  • 00:18:34.403 --> 00:18:38.373
  • And they're rowing these massive oars,
  • 00:18:38.373 --> 00:18:40.475
  • And they're exhausted.
  • 00:18:40.475 --> 00:18:41.944
  • The only problem in these beautiful sleek boats is this,
  • 00:18:41.944 --> 00:18:45.781
  • The rowers can't see the finish line, it's behind them.
  • 00:18:45.781 --> 00:18:50.085
  • They're directed, they're seated, facing the opposite way.
  • 00:18:50.085 --> 00:18:53.755
  • There's only one person who can see
  • 00:18:53.755 --> 00:18:56.058
  • The finish line in the boat,
  • 00:18:56.058 --> 00:18:57.759
  • And it's that guy with the megaphone.
  • 00:18:57.759 --> 00:19:00.162
  • He's called the coxswain,
  • 00:19:00.162 --> 00:19:02.264
  • And he is the one who sees the finish line,
  • 00:19:02.264 --> 00:19:05.100
  • And those who are rowing the massive oars,
  • 00:19:05.100 --> 00:19:08.270
  • Their job is to look at him,
  • 00:19:08.270 --> 00:19:11.173
  • Listen to his instructions,
  • 00:19:11.173 --> 00:19:13.508
  • Obey his commands and trust him
  • 00:19:13.508 --> 00:19:17.813
  • To get them over the finish line.
  • 00:19:17.813 --> 00:19:21.149
  • That's the imagery here.
  • 00:19:21.149 --> 00:19:22.951
  • No, we can't see the finish line,
  • 00:19:22.951 --> 00:19:25.587
  • But we aren't to focus on the finish line,
  • 00:19:25.587 --> 00:19:28.156
  • We're to focus on jesus,
  • 00:19:28.156 --> 00:19:31.360
  • The one who's already gone ahead of us,
  • 00:19:31.360 --> 00:19:34.096
  • The author and finisher of our faith.
  • 00:19:34.096 --> 00:19:37.566
  • That word author, it can mean trailblazer,
  • 00:19:37.566 --> 00:19:40.102
  • But it really means example.
  • 00:19:40.102 --> 00:19:42.838
  • Whenever you get fatigued, whenever you get discouraged,
  • 00:19:42.838 --> 00:19:45.540
  • When you think i can't make it any longer,
  • 00:19:45.540 --> 00:19:48.410
  • Remember jesus and what he did.
  • 00:19:48.410 --> 00:19:50.812
  • Who for the joy set before him endured the cross.
  • 00:19:50.812 --> 00:19:55.350
  • There was nothing joyous about going to the cross,
  • 00:19:55.350 --> 00:19:57.786
  • It was a miserable experience.
  • 00:19:57.786 --> 00:19:59.521
  • But jesus didn't crawl to the cross,
  • 00:19:59.521 --> 00:20:02.057
  • He marched to the cross triumphantly,
  • 00:20:02.057 --> 00:20:04.526
  • Because he looked beyond it and saw the prize
  • 00:20:04.526 --> 00:20:07.462
  • That god had for him.
  • 00:20:07.462 --> 00:20:09.531
  • And the bible says if we're going to endure
  • 00:20:09.531 --> 00:20:12.334
  • This christian life, we need to focus
  • 00:20:12.334 --> 00:20:14.336
  • On the trailblazer jesus, who has gone on ahead of us.
  • 00:20:14.336 --> 00:20:19.141
  • We follow his example until the very end.
  • 00:20:19.141 --> 00:20:23.378
  • You know, when i read this passage,
  • 00:20:23.378 --> 00:20:26.682
  • I can't help but think about a member of our church,
  • 00:20:26.682 --> 00:20:29.484
  • Who went home to be with the lord about a year ago.
  • 00:20:29.484 --> 00:20:32.354
  • Many of you knew him well,
  • 00:20:32.354 --> 00:20:33.789
  • Our deacon orville rogers, who died at the age of 101.
  • 00:20:33.789 --> 00:20:40.128
  • And you remember orville,
  • 00:20:40.128 --> 00:20:41.863
  • Halfway through his life, his long life,
  • 00:20:41.863 --> 00:20:43.932
  • He took up aerobics with dr. ken cooper.
  • 00:20:43.932 --> 00:20:47.669
  • He said, i was doing aerobics
  • 00:20:47.669 --> 00:20:49.037
  • Before it was the cool thing to do.
  • 00:20:49.037 --> 00:20:51.540
  • And he ran and ran and ran,
  • 00:20:51.540 --> 00:20:53.375
  • And he started running in all of these races around america
  • 00:20:53.375 --> 00:20:56.678
  • And gained national notoriety
  • 00:20:56.678 --> 00:20:58.914
  • As being the oldest man to run this race,
  • 00:20:58.914 --> 00:21:01.516
  • And this race and this race and this race.
  • 00:21:01.516 --> 00:21:04.619
  • He learned the secret of endurance.
  • 00:21:04.619 --> 00:21:07.756
  • And when i think about orville,
  • 00:21:07.756 --> 00:21:09.024
  • I think about several different scenes.
  • 00:21:09.024 --> 00:21:10.726
  • I think about the scene of him jumping out of an airplane
  • 00:21:10.726 --> 00:21:13.528
  • On his 90th birthday to do skydiving.
  • 00:21:13.528 --> 00:21:16.665
  • Remember we ran that video in the old sanctuary.
  • 00:21:16.665 --> 00:21:19.935
  • I think about all those endless videos
  • 00:21:19.935 --> 00:21:22.170
  • Of him crashing through the finish line,
  • 00:21:22.170 --> 00:21:24.906
  • The tape and holding his hands up, and getting the medal.
  • 00:21:24.906 --> 00:21:30.178
  • But the thing i think about most
  • 00:21:30.178 --> 00:21:31.680
  • When i think about orville is two nights before he died.
  • 00:21:31.680 --> 00:21:35.951
  • I went by to see him, he was in the bed,
  • 00:21:35.951 --> 00:21:38.754
  • In and out of sleep,
  • 00:21:38.754 --> 00:21:40.589
  • But when he knew i was there he grabbed my hand,
  • 00:21:40.589 --> 00:21:45.227
  • And he said, "pastor, i'm so thankful.
  • 00:21:45.227 --> 00:21:49.164
  • "i'm so thankful.
  • 00:21:49.164 --> 00:21:51.333
  • "i'm so thankful," he couldn't stop saying that.
  • 00:21:51.333 --> 00:21:55.036
  • "i'm so thankful."
  • 00:21:55.036 --> 00:21:57.906
  • What was he thankful for?
  • 00:21:57.906 --> 00:22:00.642
  • He didn't mention his wealth,
  • 00:22:00.642 --> 00:22:02.878
  • Didn't mention his medals.
  • 00:22:02.878 --> 00:22:05.947
  • He wasn't thankful for a pain-free life he had had.
  • 00:22:05.947 --> 00:22:09.951
  • He hadn't had one of those,
  • 00:22:09.951 --> 00:22:11.319
  • The greatest hurt of his life
  • 00:22:11.319 --> 00:22:12.821
  • Was losing his oldest son, curtis, in the vietnam war.
  • 00:22:12.821 --> 00:22:18.527
  • But what he was thankful for, he said,
  • 00:22:18.527 --> 00:22:21.596
  • Was that god was willing to sacrifice his own son
  • 00:22:21.596 --> 00:22:26.568
  • To provide eternal life for me.
  • 00:22:26.568 --> 00:22:30.572
  • Orville, until the day he died,
  • 00:22:30.572 --> 00:22:32.207
  • Never got over the fact that jesus died for him.
  • 00:22:32.207 --> 00:22:38.747
  • That was the foundation of everything in his life,
  • 00:22:38.747 --> 00:22:42.250
  • He never lost sight of that.
  • 00:22:42.250 --> 00:22:45.720
  • And that's why he was able to approach the end of his life
  • 00:22:45.720 --> 00:22:49.024
  • Just like the apostle paul who said,
  • 00:22:49.024 --> 00:22:51.927
  • "for i have fought the good fight,
  • 00:22:51.927 --> 00:22:55.030
  • "i have finished the course, i have kept the faith,
  • 00:22:55.030 --> 00:23:01.203
  • "and there is now laid up for me in heaven
  • 00:23:01.203 --> 00:23:02.938
  • "a crown of righteousness,
  • 00:23:02.938 --> 00:23:04.973
  • "which the righteous judge shall award to me on that day,
  • 00:23:04.973 --> 00:23:09.311
  • "and not to me alone
  • 00:23:09.311 --> 00:23:11.680
  • "but to all who have loved his appearing."
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  • To win a marathon, we need to have endurance,
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  • And it's the same way in the christian life.
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  • We must stay in it for the long haul.
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  • God promises to reward those who endure
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  • Well, it will likely come as no surprise to you
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  • When you trust in christ as your savior,
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  • And he poured it out upon his own son, jesus christ.
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  • God corrects us, disciplines us to restore us
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