Wednesday, February 3, 2010

Get Your Eyes on Jesus

Hebrews 12:1 Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,
Hebrews 12:2 Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.

You must have faith in God!

Hebrews 11:6 But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.

Hebrews 11:1 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

Hebrews 11:3 Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.

Get your eyes on Jesus!

“You must look on Jesus through the eye of faith!”

Abel looked to the Lord with his sacrifice!
Enoch got his eyes on Jesus! God took him!
Noah looked to the Lord in faith!
Abraham believed and looked to the Lord!

Listen! God is no respecter of persons!

Hebrews 12:1 Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses

"We have a great company of examples to look at for our encouragement!"

We may be encouraged when we read or think about how God moved in the lives of these people in days gone by!

But we must get our eyes on Jesus!
He's the Author and Finisher of our faith!

Jesus told his' disciples to have faith in God!

He's telling you and me today!__Quit trusting in yourselves!
Stop looking to man for your help!
Don't go back to Egypt for help!

Get your eyes on Jesus!
He begins faith in us!
He finishes the work of faith in us!
Looking unto to Jesus!

Phillipians 1:6 Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ:
"We must have faith in God__if we expect to get our eyes on Jesus!"

We must lay aside every weight and the besetting sin.
John 16:13 Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come.

Romans 6:11 Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Romans 6:12 Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.
Romans 6:13 Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.
Romans 6:14 For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.
Romans 6:15 What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid.
Romans 6:16 Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?
Romans 6:17 But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you.
Romans 6:18 Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness.
Rom 6:19 I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness.
Romans 6:20 For when ye were the servants of sin, ye were free from righteousness.
Romans 6:21 What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death.
Romans 6:22 But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life.
Romans 6:23 For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Nothing compares to presence of the Lord!

Psalms 16:11 Thou wilt shew me the path of life: in thy presence is fulness of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.

1John 2:16 For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.

The lust of the flesh.
The lust of the eyes.
The pride of life!
Is not of the Father!

"We must lay aside every weight and the sin!"

God's is calling a people out!

2Corinthians 6:17 Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you,

"The people of Israel were in bondage! They would have died in Egypt had it not been for God sending a deliverer!"

God has sent us a Deliverer!
His name is Jesus!
We must have faith in God!

We must look to Him!

Get your eyes off your problems and get them on Jesus!

Look to Jesus! Don't let the weights of this world hold you down!

Lay them aside by God's grace! and the power of the Holy Spirit!

He will be your Deliverer! He will give you power over sin and you can live a victorious life looking unto Jesus!

Run the race with patience

"How many a Christian has begun to run this race and has given up or has fallen because their eyes were not on Jesus!"

People , we’ve got to look unto Jesus!
He's our only Hope!
He's our Blessed Hope!

Hebrews 9:28 So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation.

Jesus is our very present help in the time of trouble!

There is complete deliverance in Jesus!
Matthew 11:27 All things are delivered unto me of my Father: and no man knoweth the Son, but the Father; neither knoweth any man the Father, save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal him.
Matthew 11:28 Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
Mathew 11:29 Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.
Mathew 11:30 For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.

Get your eyes on Jesus!
#1.Have faith in God!
#2. Lay aside every weight!
#3. Run with patience the race that is set before you!

The Apostle Paul said:
Philipians 3:12 Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus.
Philippians 3:13 Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before,
Philipians 3:14 I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

Jesus is saying to all of His Church today__"Have faith in God, lay aside every weight, and run with patience the race that is set before you."

"Get your eyes on Jesus."

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