Calvary Chapel Carson City
Sunday Morning Live
August 10, 2025
Hebrews 12
Therefore:
Faith is: Living in the Promises of God
as if they are already received.
Walking in and by Faith in God while persevering in trials, persecutions, difficulties and testings.
Faith is: the substance of things hoped for,
the evidence of things not seen
Recap: Faith acts out of bold confidence
and is backed up by the power of the unseen.
Faith is God using the ordinary to do the extraordinary.
Faith is needed in all situations.
Faith is fueled by God‘s Word By His power, By His promises. .
Brylee’s Dedication
Therefore’s to do list:
Lay aside every weight
Heb. 12:1
Bulk; mass; heap; weight, arrogance, conceit.
Lay aside the sin which doth so easily beset us
Heb. 12:1
Missing the mark in a moral sense
Run with patience, endurance the race set before us
Heb. 12:1
Agon: fight, conflict, contention
Looking unto Jesus
Heb. 12:2
He is the Head of all the long train of faith heroes.
He is the Author
He is the Perfecter of our faith.
Consider Him
Heb. 12:3
Observe and analyze every part of His life and conduct
His courage in sufferings
The Breakdown:
Therefore since we are surrounded…
Heb. 12:1-4
1 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: (Barclay!!)
the race: (AND FINISH IT!)
that is set before us,
2 looking unto Jesus, (to fold: looking away from looking onto)
the author
and finisher (Phil. 1:6 He Who has begun)
(How? CHS)
of our faith,
Who
for the joy
that was set before Him
endured
the Cross, (He remained: Jesus kept…..)
despising the shame,
and has sat down
at the right hand
of the throne of God.
3 For consider
Him
who endured
such hostility
from sinners
against
Himself,
lest you become weary
and discouraged
in your souls.
4 You have not yet
resisted to bloodshed,
striving against sin.
