If I was preaching
this coming Sunday, this would be God’s message through me!
Hebrew 12: 1- 2
New Year’s challenge: Running the Race to WIN in
2014!
I.
I Must Realize that people are watching
me:
·
According to
this scripture folks in heaven are watching.
·
Your family
·
Your
co-workers
·
Your neighbors
·
Your church
family
Question: Are they impressed by what they see? Or
better yet is Jesus Christ impressed by what he sees?
II.
We should
always Run (Live) to WIN
·
There are two
types of Winning.
1)
Over
all victory against the opposing individual or team
2)
Victory over your personal previous or best
accomplishment
·
We should
always be setting Goals and working at achieving them
·
We should be Praying
and seeking God’s goals and achieving them
Question: What goals
have you set and are working toward in your relationship and service to Jesus
Christ?
III.
Repeat
HIS message daily
·
The scripture
tells us in
1)
Luke 14:23:
Then the master (Jesus) said to the servant, ‘Go out into the highways and
hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled. (New King
James)
2)
Acts 5:42: And
daily in the temple, and in every house, they did not cease teaching and
preaching Jesus as the Christ. (New King James)
·
I love the
Shepherds in the book of Luke, they saw and met the Baby Jesus and they had to
tell someone.
·
Andrew (the
Apostle) met Jesus and the first thing he did was tell his brother Peter.
Question: Who are you
telling?
IV.
Receive
HIS blessing and Reap HIS
rewards:
·
First and
foremost we receive the blessing of Salvation by simply asking for it!
·
Receiving the
Crown from Christ
1)
CROWN OF
RIGHTEOUSNESS— LOVED THE LORD'S APPEARING - 2 Tim 4:8
2)
INCORRUPTIBLE CROWN— DISCIPLINED BODIES /
SELF-CONTROL - 1 Cor 9:25-27
3)
CROWN OF
LIFE— ENDURED PATIENTLY THRU TRIALS - James 1:12, Rev 2:10
4)
CROWN OF
GLORY— GODLY LEADERS WHO WERE EXAMPLES TO FLOCK - 1 Pet 5:2-4
5)
CROWN OF
REJOICING— SOUL WINNERS CROWN - 1 Thess 2:19, Dan 12:36 –
·
Receiving
Heaven and avoiding Hell …
o By believing and excepting the FREE Gift of Jesus
Christ …
