What’s that Look on your Face?

Your Face Sends Messages Cain: Anger, Genesis 4:5-7 Nehemiah: Sadness, Nehemiah 2:2 Belshazzar: Fear, Daniel 5:5-6, 9 “A merry heart makes a cheerful countenance, but by sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken.” (Proverbs 15:13)

“The thrill of victory and the agony of defeat.”

The Faces of Competition 1 Timothy 4:6-8 1 Corinthians 9:27 Exercise and sacrifice, Heb. 5:14 Train your faith, 2 Peter 1:5-8 Preparation

The Faces of Competition Resolve, 1 Corinthians 9:24-26 Goal, Colossians 3:1-3 Endurance, Hebrews 10:35-36 Work, John 9:4 Dedication and Determination

The Faces of Competition Joy, Matt. 25:21; 1 Thess. 2:19-20 Glory, 2 Thess. 1:10; Col. 3:4 Thanksgiving, 1 Thess. 5:18 Accomplishment, 2 Timothy 4:6-8 Triumph

The Faces of Competition Disqualified, 1 Cor. 9:27; 2 Tim. 2:5 Stunned disbelief, Matthew 25:41-45 No second chance, Matthew 25:10-13 Despair, Matthew 7:23 Loss

What Will Your Face Look Like When Your Race Is Run?

Pain of Loss and Eternal Punishment? Woeful, Isaiah 3:8-9 Fearful, yet no escape, cf. Revelation 6:15-17 God’s vengeance is to be feared, 2 Thessalonians 1:8-9; Hebrews 10:31

Peaceful Joy of Victory? Revelation 7:9-17 To be with Christ, Philippians 1:21-24 “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit,” Acts 7:56, 59-60

How You Run Now Determines Your Face When the Race is Over Run with purpose, 1 Cor. 9:26 Run by the rules (God’s word), 2 Tim. 2:5 Run with focused endurance, Heb. 12:1-2

Run Your Race Finish line is ahead Life is brief and uncertain Be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord… your labor not in vain in the Lord, 1 Corinthians 15:58