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Hebrews 12:1

In Hebrews 12:1, we are encouraged to lay aside every weight and sin that hinders us, and run with endurance the race set before us. This includes shedding worldly desires, seeking God's approval over man's, and focusing on God's priorities in our lives.

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Hebrews 12:1

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  1. Hebrews 12:1 • Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us,

  2. Hebrews 12:1 • Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us,

  3. Lay Aside Every Weight (Heb.12:1) • Weight = Hindrance • Not necessarily sinful, but not helpful (1Co.6:12) “Therefore…let us lay aside every weight…and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us.”

  4. 1 Corinthians 6:12 • All things are lawful for me, but all things are not helpful. All things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any.

  5. 1 Corinthians 6:12 • All things are lawful for me, but all things are not helpful. All things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any.

  6. Lawful Unlawful Unlawful Helpful Not Helpful

  7. Lay Aside Every Weight (Heb.12:1) • Weight = Hindrance • Not necessarily sinful, but not helpful (1Co.6:12) • If desire is to finish - shed the weight! • Key is DESIRE / VALUE(Mt.6:21) “Therefore…let us lay aside every weight…and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us.”

  8. Matthew 6:21 • For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

  9. Lay Aside Every Weight (Heb.12:1) • Weight = Hindrance • Not necessarily sinful, but not helpful (1Co.6:12) • If desire is to finish - shed the weight! • Key is DESIRE / VALUE(Mt.6:21) “Therefore…let us lay aside every weight…and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us.”

  10. Weights Which Hinder Us... Desire For Worldly Success • Great in God’s mind or in man’s eyes? • (Mk.10:43-45)(Jo.12:42-43)(Jo.5:44) “Whoever desires to become great among you shall be your servant”

  11. Mark 10:43-45 • (43) "Yet it shall not be so among you; but whoever desires to become great among you shall be your servant. • (44) "And whoever of you desires to be first shall be slave of all. • (45) "For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many.

  12. John 12:42-43 • (42) Nevertheless even among the rulers many believed in Him, but because of the Pharisees they did not confess Him, lest they should be put out of the synagogue; • (43) for they loved the praise of men more than the praise of God.

  13. John 5:44 • How can you believe, who receive honor from one another, and do not seek the honor that comes from the only God?

  14. Weights Which Hinder Us... Desire For Worldly Success • Great in God’s mind or in man’s eyes? • (Mk.10:43-45)(Jo.12:42-43)(Jo.5:44) • Why is this a “WEIGHT”? • Because you may have to lose “worldly success” in order to remain faithful to God (Mt.10:22-25) (1Co.4:11-13,16) “Whoever desires to become great among you shall be your servant”

  15. Matthew 10:22-25 • (22) "And you will be hated by all for My name's sake. But he who endures to the end will be saved. • (23) "When they persecute you in this city, flee to another. For assuredly, I say to you, you will not have gone through the cities of Israel before the Son of Man comes.

  16. Matthew 10:22-25 • (24) "A disciple is not above his teacher, nor a servant above his master. • (25) "It is enough for a disciple that he be like his teacher, and a servant like his master. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebub, how much more will they call those of his household!

  17. 1 Corinthians 4:11-13,16 • (11) To the present hour we both hunger and thirst, and we are poorly clothed, and beaten, and homeless. • (12) And we labor, working with our own hands. Being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we endure;

  18. 1 Corinthians 4:11-13,16 • (13) being defamed, we entreat. We have been made as the filth of the world, the offscouring of all things until now. • (16) Therefore I urge you, imitate me.

  19. Weights Which Hinder Us... Desire For Worldly Success • Great in God’s mind or in man’s eyes? • (Mk.10:43-45)(Jo.12:42-43)(Jo.5:44) • Why is this a “WEIGHT”? • Because you may have to lose “worldly success” in order to remain faithful to God (Mt.10:22-25) (1Co.4:11-13,16) “Whoever desires to become great among you shall be your servant”

  20. Weights Which Hinder Us... Desire For Worldly Success • Women pressured to follow the world’s standards for success • God’s priority for the woman - “home keeper” or “home manager”(Tit.2:5) (1Ti.5:14)

  21. Titus 2:4-5 • (4) that they admonish the young women to love their husbands, to love their children, • (5) to be discreet, chaste, homemakers, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be blasphemed.

  22. Titus 2:4-5 • (4) that they admonish the young women to love their husbands, to love their children, • (5) to be discreet, chaste, homemakers, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be blasphemed.

  23. 1 Timothy 5:14 • Therefore I desire that the younger widows marry, bear children, manage the house, give no opportunity to the adversary to speak reproachfully.

  24. 1 Timothy 5:14 • Therefore I desire that the younger widows marry, bear children, manage the house, give no opportunity to the adversary to speak reproachfully.

  25. Weights Which Hinder Us... Desire For Worldly Success • Women pressured to follow the world’s standards for success • God’s priority for the woman - “home keeper” or “home manager”(Tit.2:5) (1Ti.5:14) • Women were created for this purpose(Ge.2:18)(1Co.11:9) (1Pe.3:1-6) (Pr.31)

  26. Genesis 2:18 • And the LORD God said, "It is not good that man should be alone; I will make him a helper comparable to him."

  27. 1 Corinthians 11:9 • (8) For man is not from woman, but woman from man. • (9) Nor was man created for the woman, but woman for the man.

  28. Weights Which Hinder Us... Desire For Worldly Success • Women pressured to follow the world’s standards for success • God’s priority for the woman - “home keeper” or “home manager”(Tit.2:5) (1Ti.5:14) • Women were created for this purpose(Ge.2:18)(1Co.11:9) (1Pe.3:1-6) (Pr.31) • “Older women” should be “teaching” this!(Tit.2:3-5) “She watches over the ways of her household, and does not eat the bread of idleness” (Pr.31:27)

  29. Titus 2:3-5 • (3) the older women likewise, that they be… teachers of good things-- • (4) that they admonish the young women to love their husbands, to love their children, • (5) to be discreet, chaste, homemakers, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be blasphemed.

  30. Weights Which Hinder Us... Desire For Worldly Success • Women pressured to follow the world’s standards for success • Priority is determined by the time and effort devoted to a task • Women are being “weighed down” and torn apart at the seams trying to be “super-mom” and pursue things that are not their responsibility “lay aside every weight… and … run with endurance the race that is set...”

  31. Weights Which Hinder Us... Desire For Worldly Success • Pursue job at cost of God? (Jas.4:14)

  32. James 4:14 • whereas you do not know what will happen tomorrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away.

  33. Weights Which Hinder Us... Desire For Worldly Success • Pursue job at cost of God? (Jas.4:14) • Does job regularly cause missed assemblies? (He.10:25)

  34. Hebrews 10:25 • not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as is the manner of some, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as you see the Day approaching.

  35. Weights Which Hinder Us... Desire For Worldly Success • Pursue job at cost of God? (Jas.4:14) • Does job regularly cause missed assemblies? (He.10:25) • “Ox in the ditch”? (Lk.14:5)

  36. Luke 14:5 • Then He answered them, saying, "Which of you, having a donkey or an ox that has fallen into a pit, will not immediately pull him out on the Sabbath day?"

  37. Weights Which Hinder Us... Desire For Worldly Success • Pursue job at cost of God? (Jas.4:14) • Does job regularly cause missed assemblies? (He.10:25) • “Ox in the ditch”? (Lk.14:5)

  38. Weights Which Hinder Us... Desire For Worldly Success • Pursue job at cost of God? (Jas.4:14) • Does job regularly cause missed assemblies? (He.10:25) • “Ox in the ditch”? (Lk.14:5) Get another ox! “No one can serve two masters… he will be loyal to the one and despise the other” (Mt.6:24)

  39. Weights Which Hinder Us... Desire For Worldly Success • Pursue job at cost of God? (Jas.4:14) • Does job regularly cause missed assemblies? (He.10:25) • “Ox in the ditch”? (Lk.14:5) Get another ox! • Most believe that there will be “a time” in the future when they will fully devote their lives (Js.4:14) (Lk.12:16-21, 42-47) “No one can serve two masters… he will be loyal to the one and despise the other” (Mt.6:24)

  40. Luke 12:15-21 • (15) And He said to them, "Take heed and beware of covetousness, for one's life does not consist in the abundance of the things he possesses." • (16) Then He spoke a parable to them, saying: "The ground of a certain rich man yielded plentifully…

  41. Luke 12:15-21 • (18) "So he said, 'I will do this: I will pull down my barns and build greater, and there I will store all my crops and my goods. • (19) 'And I will say to my soul, "Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years; take your ease; eat, drink, and be merry."'

  42. Luke 12:15-21 • (20) "But God said to him, 'Fool! This night your soul will be required of you; then whose will those things be which you have provided?' • (21) "So is he who lays up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God."

  43. Luke 12:42-47 • (42) And the Lord said, "Who then is that faithful and wise steward, whom his master will make ruler over his household, to give them their portion of food in due season? • (43) "Blessed is that servant whom his master will find so doing when he comes.

  44. Luke 12:42-47 • (44) "Truly, I say to you that he will make him ruler over all that he has. • (45) "But if that servant says in his heart, 'My master is delaying his coming,' and begins to beat the male and female servants, and to eat and drink and be drunk,

  45. Luke 12:42-47 • (46) "the master of that servant will come on a day when he is not looking for him, and at an hour when he is not aware, and will cut him in two and appoint him his portion with the unbelievers.

  46. Luke 12:42-47 • (47) "And that servant who knew his master's will, and did not prepare himself or do according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes.

  47. Weights Which Hinder Us... Desire For Worldly Success • Pursue job at cost of God? (Jas.4:14) • Does job regularly cause missed assemblies? (He.10:25) • “Ox in the ditch”? (Lk.14:5) Get another ox! • Most believe that there will be “a time” in the future when they will fully devote their lives (Js.4:14) (Lk.12:16-21, 42-47) “No one can serve two masters… he will be loyal to the one and despise the other” (Mt.6:24)

  48. Weights Which Hinder Us... Desire For Worldly Friends • The insatiable desire for people of the world to approve of us and befriend us • Friend of the world / Enemy of God (Js.4:4) • Dating a non-Christian (1Co.15:33) • Do not be deceived: "Evil company corrupts good habits." “Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God?”

  49. Weights Which Hinder Us... Desire For Worldly Friends • The insatiable desire for people of the world to approve of us and befriend us • Friend of the world / Enemy of God (Js.4:4) • Dating a non-Christian (Prov.12:26) • The righteous should choose his friends carefully, For the way of the wicked leads them astray. “Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God?”

  50. Non-Christians 149 Total 106 Left the Lord 43 Faithful 44 Divorced 26 Converted Mate Christians 112 Total 8 Left the Lord 104 Faithful 4 Divorced Weights Which Hinder Us... Marriage of Christians To… 7% 71% 93% 29% 4% 30% 18% “Nor shall you make marriages with them… For they will turn your sons away from following Me” (De.7:3-4)

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