Run the Race

In this sermon from Hebrews 12:1-17, we look at the Christian life as a race that requires endurance.

Hebrews calls us to lay aside both sin and every weight that makes faithful obedience harder. Some weights are clearly sinful. Others may be good commitments that do not belong to the particular race God has set before us. The passage also teaches us to understand hardship as the loving training of our Father and to strengthen one another as we pursue holiness together.

This is not a message about saving ourselves through effort or finding enough inner toughness. We run by fixing our eyes on Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who endured the cross, reached the throne, and will bring His people home.