Learning to Endure – A Better Way

To keep your faith strong, focus your life on Christ.

Heb.12:1 Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, 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 is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.

Because Christ is superior to all, worship Christ as superior to all creation.

Heb.1:1 God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, 2 Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds;

Our Lord Jesus knows how we feel, He helps when we hurt, so count on Christ’s sympathy in suffering.

Heb.2:9 But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour; that he by the grace of God should taste death for every man.

Our Lord has been faithful, so we should remain faithful since Christ is faithful.

Heb.3:14 For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end; 15 While it is said, Today if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation.

God provides His special blessings of eternal rest, so enter God’s rest through faith.

Heb.4:11 Let us labor therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief . 12 For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

Jesus Christ is the perfect priest for believers, so grow in spiritual maturity through His mediation.

13 For every one that useth milk is unskilful in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe. 14 But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age , even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.



Christians need to move forward in hope, not slip back into doubt, so lay hold of the hope that is in Christ.

Heb.6:11 And we desire that every one of you do shew the same diligence to the full assurance of hope unto the end: 12 That ye be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises.

Christ’s priesthood gives confidence and stability to His people, so rejoice in Christ, the Great High Priest.

Heb.7:25 Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them.

In Christ, God has provided a new covenant that fulfills what the old covenant could only picture, so find joy and hope in Christ’s priesthood.

Heb.9:14 How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot  to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

Believers must be in practice what they already are in Christ, so be encouraged in the face of pressure.

Heb.10:25 Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.

Faith is essential in living a godly life, so exercise faith in God no matter what.

Heb. 11:6 But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.

The godly person endures in hope, so face challenges with eternal certainties.

Heb.12:1 Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, 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 is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.

A godly life will demonstrate practical love, so demonstrate practical love without hypocrisy.

Heb.13:5 Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.