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    "Overcoming Discouragement": Hebrews 12:1-3

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    Overcoming discouragement involves looking past obstacles to see God at work. The document discusses two "shadows" that can cause discouragement: growing weary from daily battles and losing heart by giving up. Jesus overcame through finding joy in doing God's will and enduring the cross despite the shame. To overcome, believers are urged to rely on fellow believers, run life's race with endurance, repent of sins, fix their eyes on Jesus as the perfecter of faith, and consider how Jesus endured hostility without retaliation by trusting the Father. Maintaining hope in God's ultimate victory can help believers press on despite shadows that block their vision.

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    Overcoming discouragement involves looking past obstacles to see God at work. The document discusses two "shadows" that can cause discouragement: growing weary from daily battles and losing heart by giving up. Jesus overcame through finding joy in doing God's will and enduring the cross despite the shame. To overcome, believers are urged to rely on fellow believers, run life's race with endurance, repent of sins, fix their eyes on Jesus as the perfecter of faith, and consider how Jesus endured hostility without retaliation by trusting the Father. Maintaining hope in God's ultimate victory can help believers press on despite shadows that block their vision.

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    Overcoming discouragement involves looking past obstacles to see God at work. The document discusses two "shadows" that can cause discouragement: growing weary from daily battles and losing heart by giving up. Jesus overcame through finding joy in doing God's will and enduring the cross despite the shame. To overcome, believers are urged to rely on fellow believers, run life's race with endurance, repent of sins, fix their eyes on Jesus as the perfecter of faith, and consider how Jesus endured hostility without retaliation by trusting the Father. Maintaining hope in God's ultimate victory can help believers press on despite shadows that block their vision.

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    "Overcoming Discouragement": Hebrews 12:1-3

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    Overcoming discouragement involves looking past obstacles to see God at work. The document discusses two "shadows" that can cause discouragement: growing weary from daily battles and losing heart by giving up. Jesus overcame through finding joy in doing God's will and enduring the cross despite the shame. To overcome, believers are urged to rely on fellow believers, run life's race with endurance, repent of sins, fix their eyes on Jesus as the perfecter of faith, and consider how Jesus endured hostility without retaliation by trusting the Father. Maintaining hope in God's ultimate victory can help believers press on despite shadows that block their vision.

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    “Overcoming Discouragement”

    Hebrews 12:1-3
    Discouragement = living in shadows
    and spiritual darkness in life
    1. Shadow = something
    blocking the light
    2. Challenge: we must
    look PAST the blocking
    object or circumstance
    to SEE God’s hand
    at work!
    Two “Shadows” in Christian Life
    Hebrews 12:3
    Growing weary – exhausted from day to day
    battles, flesh vs. Spirit, a temporary situation
    * following Jesus on the straight, narrow

    Losing heart – giving up – not trying anymore


    * Joshua 6 – Walls of Jericho 6th day
    * Naaman on his 6th dip in the Jordan
    (2 Kings 5:14).
    Imagine the Temptation of
    Jesus for Discouragement
    * the sting of betrayal by Peter, the disciples
    (3 years investment – disciples scattered)
    * In the garden – “My soul is deeply grieved…”
    (Mark 14:34).
    The sting of the Father’s wrath!
    “My God, My God, why have
    You forsaken Me?” (Mark 15:34).

    * Our failures!
    So How Did Jesus Manage?
    For The Joy Set Before Him “set before Him”
    “It will be WORTH it all…”

    Endured the cross – not avoid – it was His


    purpose, His mission (Isaiah 53)

    Despising the shame: to regard as negligible,


    worthless, or distasteful
    How Can We Rally to Overcome
    Discouragement? Hebrews 12:1-2
    “We have so great a cloud of witnesses
    surrounding us!” - Who is rooting for YOU?

    Run with endurance

    The race that is set


    before us!
    Dump the Weight of Sin(s)! Vs. 1
    Repent from sin; repent to God!

    “When I kept silent about my sin, my body


    wasted away through my groaning all day long.
    For day and night Your hand was heavy upon
    me;my vitality was drained away as with the
    fever heat of summer” (Psalm 32:3-4).

    “Search me O God, know my heart (Ps. 139:23)


    Fixing our eyes on Jesus! Vs. 2
    The author of our faith – Concentrate on
    His attributes, His Power, His good will!
    * the perfecter of our faith
    How does He perfect your faith?
    * James 1:2-3

    Trials produce what? Endurance!


    Refiner’s fire,
    “Without faith it is impossible to Malachi 3
    please Him” (Hebrews 11:6)
    Vs. 3 – “Consider Him Who Endured
    Such Hostility By Sinners Against Himself”
    Consider:
    * His lack of retaliation
    (1 Peter 2:21-24)
    * Trusting the Father
    in suffering!
    * The Father sees all,
    will bring justice
    * Romans 8:28 – look
    beyond hostility in the
    shadows to see the victory
    Bottom Line: Hope pulls us onward!!
    How can we know for sure?
    The resurrection, just as He said!

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