Run with Endurance Part 2

1. Look within

a. Let us lay aside every encumbrance and sin which so easily entangles

* 250 million Christians are severely persecuted around the world today.

* 1 in 9 Christians live in intense persecution.

* 14% rise in intense persecution

* 4136 Christians were martyred for their faith in 2019 alone.

* 5 years ago North Korea was the only country on the list of extreme persecution. Today its 11 countries. (India being one of them above Iraq)



John Piper (Hunger for God)

“The greatest enemy of hunger for God is not poison but apple pie.It is not the banquet of the wicked that dulls our appetite for heaven, but endless nibbling at the table of the world. It is not

the X-rated video, but the prime-time dribble of triviality wedrink in every night.”





1 Cor 6:12

All things are lawful for me, but not all things are profitable. All things are lawful for me, but I will not be mastered by anything.



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1 Peter 2:1-3

Therefore, putting aside all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander, 2 like newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the word, so that by it you may grow in respect to salvation, 3 if you have tasted the kindness of the Lord.





Eph 5:15

15 Therefore be careful how you walk, not as unwise men but as wise, 16 making the most of your time, because the days are evil.



Ps 90:12

12 So teach us to number our days, That we may present to You a heart of wisdom.

James 4:14

14 Yet you do not know what your life will be like tomorrow. You are just a vapor that appears for a little while and then vanishes away.



Ps 139:23-24

23 Search me, O God, and know my heart;

Try me and know my anxious thoughts;

24 And see if there be any hurtful way in me,

And lead me in the everlasting way

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Matt 24:7

"Because lawlessness is increased, most people's love will grow cold.



1 Tim 1:18-19

18 This command I entrust to you, Timothy, my son, in accordance with the prophecies previously made concerning you, that by them you fight the good fight, 19 keeping faith and a good conscience, which some have rejected and suffered shipwreck in regard to their faith.



Matt 18:8-9

8 "If your hand or your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off and throw it from you; it is better for you to enter life crippled or lame, than to have two hands or two feet and be cast into the eternal fire. 9 "If your eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out and throw it from you. It is better for you to enter life with one eye, than to have two eyes and be cast into the fiery hell.



Heb 12:4-6

4 You have not yet resisted to the point of shedding blood in your striving against sin; 5 and you have forgotten the exhortation which is addressed to you as sons,

"MY SON, DO NOT REGARD LIGHTLY THE DISCIPLINE OF THE LORD,

NOR FAINT WHEN YOU ARE REPROVED BY HIM;

6 FOR THOSE WHOM THE LORD LOVES HE DISCIPLINES,

AND HE SCOURGES EVERY SON WHOM HE RECEIVES."



Matt 6:11-13

11 'Give us this day our daily bread.

12 'And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors.

13 'And do not lead us into temptation, but deliver us from evil. [For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen.']



Ps 119:9-11

9 How can a young man keep his way pure?

By keeping it according to Your word.

10 With all my heart I have sought You;

Do not let me wander from Your commandments.

11 Your word I have treasured in my heart,

That I may not sin against You.