The Struggle of Sin is Real
Jeremy Peeler
1 Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a huge crowd of witnesses to the life of faith, let us strip off every weight that slows us down, especially the sin that so easily trips us up. And let us run with endurance the race God has set before us. 2 We do this by keeping our eyes on Jesus, the champion who initiates and perfects our faith. Because of the joy awaiting him, he endured the cross, disregarding its shame. Now he is seated in the place of honor beside God’s throne. 3 Think of all the hostility he endured from sinful people; then you won’t become weary and give up. 4 After all, you have not yet given your lives in your struggle against sin.
HEBREWS 12:1–4…in your struggle against sin.
HEBREWS 12:4The struggle against sin is most definitely real.
Let us strip off every weight that slows us down, especially the sin that so easily trips us up. And let us run with endurance the race God has set before us.
HEBREWS 12:1The trouble is with me, for I am all too human, a slave to sin.
ROMANS 7:14Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death? Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord!
ROMANS 7:24–25We are surrounded by such a huge crowd of witnesses to the life of faith…
HEBREWS 12:1Who are the spectators?
…let us strip off every weight that slows us down, especially the sin that so easily trips us up.
HEBREWS 12:1BBurdens and sin slow us down and trip us up.
We do this by keeping our eyes on Jesus, the champion who initiates and perfects our faith.
HEBREWS 12:2O soul, you can never start on the road to heaven unless you look to him who “endured the cross” on your behalf! Your sin will make you to endure the wrath of God for ever, unless you look to him who bore our sins in his own body on the tree. You must get a faith’s view of the Lamb of God, which takes away the sin of the world, or else you have not even begun the heavenward race.
— CHARLES SPURGEON
Because of the joy awaiting him, he endured the cross, disregarding its shame. Now he is seated in the place of honor beside God’s throne. Think of all the hostility he endured from sinful people; then you won’t become weary and give up.
HEBREWS 12:2–3The promise of joy must be greater than the present struggle.
Because of the joy awaiting him…
HEBREWS 12:2He endured the cross, disregarding its shame… Think of all the hostility he endured from sinful people; then you won’t become weary and give up.
HEBREWS 12:2–3[ HOYT VIDEO ]