Learn from example, so you may lead by example, and follow Christ, who is the same yesterday, and today, and forever.

The great big message of the book of Hebrews is the greatness of Christ. It gets that message across especially by connecting who he is and what he’s done to the Old Testament. Our author has one more way he wants us to see the greatness of Christ. He wants to show us the greatness of the Kingdom of Christ, and he shows us this by comparing what Israel received and experienced at Mt. Sinai to new covenant and the heavenly city that we have in Jesus. God has given us an unshakeable kingdom.

To succeed in the upward calling of God on our lives, we must look to Christ.

There are three commands given to us in this passage, which help us see what that means and put this into action.

A) Put Every Encumbrance Aside

B) Run with Endurance

C) Look to Christ

In this passage, we learn to work out our faith in response to the work of discipline that God does in the lives of his people.

Take the Lord’s discipline to heart. It is for your holiness.

Here we have three instructions for how Christians are called to find resilience in our walk with Christ: We endure by:

A) Considering the Example of Christ’s Own Life

B) Receiving the Lord’s Discipline as Sons

C) Remembering the Point of God’s Discipline

Jesus completes the hope of faith.

A) Faith is the Great Divide Between Those who Live and Those Who Perish

B) Faith Fuels Decisive Action

C) Faith Proves Worthy Through Suffering

D) God's Plan to Complete Faith

Faith finds the strength to endure as it invests itself in the faithfulness of God.

A) Faith Has True Love for God

B) Faith Stands on the True Word of God

C) Faith Finds True Treasure in God

Faith receives an inheritance from God, a true home with Him in a heavenly city. In this sermon we look at the faith of Abraham, Sarah, Isaac, and Jacob, who lived on earth as citizens of heaven, looking for the inheritance of a heavenly city that God had promised to them.

Faith receives the gracious blessings and the commendation of God because it believes his word is true and entrusts itself to Him in faithful obedience.

In our walk with Christ, we have need for endurance, so that after we have done the will of God we may receive what has been promised to us. In this passage we look at three keys to enduring well.