This is our final broadcast for the incarnation series as well as for the 2021 year.
We are completing our look at the five implications of the incarnation:
1. Jesus came to reveal God to us.
2. Jesus came to defeat death and take the fear of death away from us because He has also defeated the devil.
3. Jesus came to be our sympathetic High Priest.
4. Jesus came to show us what it is like to be a humble servant of Almighty God.
5. Jesus came to show us how to run the race of life victoriously and with endurance.
Looking at Hebrews 12:1 it says, “Therefore, since we have so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, let us also lay aside every encumbrance and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us.” All of us know that life is hard. I think we are fooling ourselves to say that it is not. It is difficult, and it is exceedingly difficult at times for Christians specifically because we who are children of the Light, according to Scripture, live in a world of darkness. We are surrounded by that which does not go well with the nature that God has given us of Light. So, we face this world system in a unique way. It can be very difficult at times and often very discouraging, so we are not surprised to find that sometimes in Scripture we are given ideas, pictures, principles, and teachings concerning how we can run this life in such a way that honors God. In this passage, which speaks of an implication of the incarnation, we find that some of the things that mess us up in this life are sins which “entangle us.” They trip us up. You can’t run a race and have your shoelaces tied together. The sin trips us up and entangles us along with our other issues that cause us to get sidetracked. Hinderances and so forth weigh us down and keep us from moving forward as we should. Sin makes life hard, and the world system is permeated by sin. Not just our sin, but the sin of the system around us, and the sin of others. We must face all of that and we know that it is there . . .
