RUNNING WELL The Importance of Overcoming Hindrances GALATIANS

RUNNING WELL The Importance of Overcoming Hindrances

GALATIANS 5: 7 You ran well. Who hindered you from obeying the truth?

RUNNING WELL HINDRANCES

RUNNING WELL HINDRANCES ØREACH FORWARD

PHILIPPIANS 3: 13 -14 Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead, I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.

RUNNING WELL HINDRANCES REACH FORWARD ØSEEK THINGS ABOVE

COLOSSIANS 3: 1 -2 If then you were raised with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ is, sitting at the right hand of God. Set your mind on things above, not on things on the earth.

COLOSSIANS 3: 3 -4 For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. When Christ who is our life appears, then you also will appear with Him in glory.

RUNNING WELL HINDRANCES REACH FORWARD SEEK THINGS ABOVE ØBE STEADFAST

2 CORINTHIANS 15: 58 Therefore, my beloved brethren, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

RUNNING WELL HINDRANCES REACH FORWARD SEEK THINGS ABOVE BE STEADFAST ØRUN WITH ENDURANCE

HEBREWS 12: 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 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 has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

RUNNING WELL HINDRANCES REACH FORWARD SEEK THINGS ABOVE BE STEADFAST RUN WITH ENDURANCE ØRECEIVE THE

JAMES 1: 21 -22 Therefore lay aside all filthiness and overflow of wickedness, and receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls. But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.

JAMES 1: 23 -24 For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man observing his natural face in a mirror; for he observes himself, goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was.

JAMES 1: 25 But he who looks into the perfect law of liberty and continues in it, and is not a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work, this one will be blessed in what he does.

RUNNING WELL HINDRANCES REACH FORWARD SEEK THINGS ABOVE BE STEADFAST RUN WITH ENDURANCE

RUNNING WELL HINDRANCES REACH FORWARD SEEK THINGS ABOVE BE STEADFAST RUN WITH ENDURANCE Ø LEGALISM

GALATIANS 5: 1 -2 Stand fast therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and do not be entangled again with a yoke of bondage. Indeed I, Paul, say to you that if you become circumcised, Christ will profit you nothing.

GALATIANS 5: 3 -4 And I testify again to every man who becomes circumcised that he is a debtor to keep the whole law. You have become estranged from Christ, you who attempt to be justified by law; you have fallen from grace.

RUNNING WELL HINDRANCES REACH FORWARD LEGALISM SEEK THINGS ABOVE Ø LOVE OF MONEY BE STEADFAST RUN WITH ENDURANCE

1 TIMOTHY 6: 8 -9 And having food and clothing, with these we shall be content. But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and harmful lusts which drown men in destruction and perdition.

1 TIMOTHY 6: 10 For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil, for which some have strayed from the faith in their greediness, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

RUNNING WELL HINDRANCES REACH FORWARD LEGALISM SEEK THINGS ABOVE LOVE OF MONEY BE STEADFAST RUN WITH ENDURANCE Ø UNBELIEF

HEBREWS 3: 12 -13 Beware, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in departing from the living God; but exhort one another daily, while it is called "Today, " lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.

RUNNING WELL HINDRANCES REACH FORWARD LEGALISM SEEK THINGS ABOVE LOVE OF MONEY BE STEADFAST RUN WITH ENDURANCE UNBELIEF Ø NEGLECT

HEBREWS 2: 1 -2 Therefore we must give the more earnest heed to the things we have heard, lest we drift away. For if the word spoken through angels proved steadfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just reward,

HEBREWS 2: 3 -4 how shall we escape if we neglect so great a salvation, which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed to us by those who heard Him, God also bearing witness both with signs and wonders, with various miracles, and gifts of the Holy Spirit, according to His own will?

RUNNING WELL HINDRANCES REACH FORWARD LEGALISM SEEK THINGS ABOVE LOVE OF MONEY BE STEADFAST RUN WITH ENDURANCE UNBELIEF NEGLECT Ø DISOBEDIENCE

HEBREWS 4: 11 -13 Let us therefore be diligent to enter that rest, lest anyone fall according to the same example of disobedience.

HEBREWS 4: 12 For the word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two -edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

HEBREWS 4: 13 And there is no creature hidden from His sight, but all things are naked and open to the eyes of Him to whom we must give account.