Run the Race (Scripture alone. Cadence song.) Surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight and the sin that so easily entangles. Run with endurance the race set before us, looking to Jesus, founder and perfecter of the faith. For the joy set before Him He endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God. Lay aside sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, wrath, rivalries, dissensions, factions, envy, drunkenness, revelries, and the like. Those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God. From the heart come evil thoughts, theft, murder, adultery, coveting, wickedness, deceit, envy, slander, pride, foolishness. They were filled with all unrighteousness, evil, covetousness, malice, envy, murder, strife, deceit, maliciousness, gossips, slanderers, haters of God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents, foolish, faithless, heartless, ruthless. Put to death sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry. Put away anger, wrath, malice, slander, obscene talk, lying. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. The cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, murderers, the sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars— their portion is the lake that burns. Lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good, treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God. God so loved the world that He gave the only Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life. We love because He first loved us. They that wait on God shall renew their strength; they shall put forth new feathers like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not hunger. Lay aside every weight and the sin that so easily entangles. Run with endurance. Eyes on Jesus. His love endured the cross. Finish the race.
