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"Overcoming Discouragement": Hebrews 12:1-3

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

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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