Consider Him who endured such hostility from sinners, so that you will not grow weary and lose heart.For consider him who has endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, that you don’t grow weary, fainting in your souls.For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds.For consider him that hath endured such gainsaying of sinners against himself, that ye wax not weary, fainting in your souls.
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… The first word is the word endurance. You remember how he says in Hebrews chapter 12 and verse 3, consider Christ who endured from sinners such hostility against Himself so that you may not grow weary or faint-hearted. And then again in verse 7 he says, it is for discipline that you have to endure. Now, the word endurance here is a very interesting word. It means at the foot of the letter, it means to remain underneath something. The picture that comes to my mind is when the Olympic Games come around every four years. One of the things I kind of enjoy watching is the weight lifting. Now, if you watched it, these men come on to a dais and they are massive, their muscles are bulging, they're weighing these leotards, and they pick up these vast weights. I mean, the weights of several people, and they heave them up, and they quake and shake underneath, and then they push them up. And there must be a requisite length of time and a certain straightness in the arms that they have to hold up these weights, and then a buzzer goes and the whole thing comes crashing down because they have succeeded in lifting the weight. …
… Consider him, consider him, consider him who endured such opposition from sinners. Why? So that, here it is, so that you will not grow weary, so that you will not lose faith, so that you will not lose confidence, so that you will not grow weary and lose heart. And then earlier he says this, here's the invitation. I want you to approach. He says, I know you're not perfect. I know you got stuff, but come on, come on. I want you to approach. Let us then approach. let us then approach God's throne of grace with confidence and why can you approach God's throne of grace with confidence don't miss this because what has he just told us because sitting next to your heavenly father is the son who endured such opposition and such pain he knows he feels that he felt it and he is there seated by the father interceding for you because he cares you're been there felt that faced that savior and then here's the kicker here's the promise because there's a promise so that so that we may receive and here it is do you know what you can bank on do you know what you can count on do you know what you can hold god accountable to This is the part where you can say, Heavenly Father, you promised me. …
… any and everything that could cut in on you. Consider him who endured such oppression from sinners so that you will not grow weary and lose heart. He endured the cross. He was cut on so that we could never be cut out. He endured the cross to get us back on course. Let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us with our eyes fixed on Jesus.