2. “Commitment to
God”

3. Run Your Race! (Heb. 12:1-2)
(1 Corinthians 9:24-27) Do you not know that those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? Run in such a way that you may obtain it. And everyone who competes for the prize is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a perishable crown, but we for an imperishable crown. Therefore I run thus: not with uncertainty. Thus I fight: not as one who beats the air. But I discipline my body and bring it into subjection, lest, when I have preached to others, I myself should become disqualified. (NKJV)

4. Run Your Race! (Heb. 12:1-2)
(Hebrews 12:1-2) Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, 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 has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. (NKJV)

5. Even your very life (Lk. 9:24)!
Lay Aside Every Snare…
Bad Influences: Serpent (Gen. 3:1-6)
Human Reasoning: Eve (Gen. 3:6)
Stubborn Attitudes: Cain (Gen. 4:3-8)
Worldly Attachments: Lot’s Wife (Gen. 19:26)
Discouragement: Judah (Neh. 4:10)
Unbelief: Nazarenes (Mat. 13:58)
Worldly Possessions: Rich Young Ruler (Mat. 19:22)
Temporal Activities: Martha (Lk. 10:40)
Imaginary Hindrances (Mk. 16:3)
Family Ties (Lk. 9:61-62)
Even your very life (Lk. 9:24)!