Ron's Note

Message Notes

Dear Loved Ones,

This morning I would like to begin a new series entitled: The Amazing Race. It is lightly connected to the recent television reality show by that name.

We are all in a race. We are not in the preliminaries or the arms ups of the race, we are in the race. the writer of the Hebrews describes it as a race where there is a "great cloud of witnesses" watching us as we run with perseverance our leg of the race.

Thos "witnesses" are the many people of faith that have lived their life, run their race and are not in the great grandstands watching us and rooting us on to victory.

You may think of the great Apostle Paul or Peter or maybe a former pastor that has gone on to be with the Lord that had influenced your life. These are the kind of witnesses that are watching us from the great grandstands.

The writer of the Hebrews compares our race to the greatest race runner of all time, our Lord Jesus Christ, who endured all He did for us so that we can be on the winning side.

May I ask you this one question? How are you doing in your race?

In Jesus,

Pastor Ron

Introduction:

1. The __________  of The ___________.
John 16:5-16
John 13:3-5
John 14:1-4
John 14:26
John 15:26

2. The ___________ of The _________.
John 16:8-11
John 8:46
Matthew 18:15-16
Ephesians 5:10-14
Timothy 5:20
Timothy 1:13
Revelation 3:19
John 12:48-50
I John 3:8

3. Three _________ of The ________.
John 16:12-15
Luke 24:32-33
John 1:18
John 17:7

Conclusion: