Worship Preparation - June 2, 2024
Read the sermon text: Hebrews 12:1-2
Read the sermon summary: In our text for this Sunday we see the need for endurance in faith. The author likens the Christian life of faith to that of a race. He gives a command in the third person plural (“Let us…”) to not simply run the race but to run it with endurance. In the previous chapter, he showed the great cloud of witnesses to this reality. These believers endured in faith, greeting the promises from a distance but never seeing their ultimate fulfillment. God commended them for their faith. In the sermon, we will also consider the challenges of meeting this need of endurance and the resources God has given us for meeting this need. In preparation for the sermon consider the following questions: What are the main commands in this passage? What purpose does this “cloud of witnesses” serve for us? What do you think it means to “look to Jesus”?
Read the following song lyrics in relation to the sermon:
The Solid Rock
My hope is built on nothing less
Than Jesus' blood and righteousness
I dare not trust the sweetest frame
But wholly lean on Jesus' name
Chorus
On Christ the solid Rock I stand
All other ground is sinking sand
All other ground is sinking sand
When darkness veils His lovely face
I rest on His unchanging grace
In ev'ry high and stormy gale
My anchor holds within the veil
His oath His covenant His blood
Support me in the whelming flood
When all around my soul gives way
He then is all my hope and stay
When He shall come with trumpet sound
O may I then in Him be found
Dressed in His righteousness alone
Faultless to stand before the throne
CCLI Song # 25417
Edward Mote | William Batchelder Bradbury
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