[FS] Hebrews - Our Supreme Messiah #36: Now How Shall We Live, Pt. 2

Okay? And really that's kind of the way I want us to think about our our text today, and that is to have a great victory. And so I thought about, man, when what was the great one of the greatest victories in my life? And one of the greatest victories in my life came when I was 11 years old. Some of you heard this story, but when I was 11 years old, I played in the Marriott Super Bowl right here in Maryland. [00:19:55] (25 seconds)  #PursueVictory

Seriously. Now I'm not kidding. This guy, he went on and played five to six years in the pros. He was good. He was good when he was 11 years old, and and we had to stop him. He was faster than anybody on the planet at that age, and my job as a defensive end was to make sure he never got outside and around me. My job was to make sure he I pushed him back into the rest of the team who could trace him down and tackle him. [00:20:37] (24 seconds)  #YouthSportsWin

But think about a coach, and he's given you instruction, he's given you commands, okay, on how to live a victorious Christian life. Okay? So let's read the text. We're in Hebrews chapter 13. We're gonna be in starting in verse seven. Here's the coach. Remember your leaders, those who spoke to you the word of God. Consider the outcome of their way of life and imitate their faith. Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever. [00:21:54] (34 seconds)  #ImitateFaithLeaders

Alright? And the key is their faith in Jesus Christ. And the things that they do that show this faith, we should we should imitate those things. Again, this is true. It's not the at the exclusion of the holy spirit. Okay? But it is a good way to be inspired to live you a life of integrity because these people, okay, that are around you and in your life that are good Christian people, living you and giving you examples, okay, they're just like you. [00:26:22] (34 seconds)  #LiveByExample

They have weakness and warts just like you, but they're living it out, and you can learn from that. You can be inspired from that. The the apostle Paul was so confident in his way of life and faith that that he said, hey, use me as an example. He literally in in first Corinthians chapter 11, he says, be imitators of me, but he says, as I am of Christ. [00:26:56] (26 seconds)  #FollowChristlikeLeaders

But the things that are Christ life in our life and you see other people doing them, it should inspire us because Jesus was was fully human, but Jesus isn't here. Right? But having somebody you can kind of feel and touch and see that's just like you should be very, very inspiring. Paul taught the church in Thessalonica to imitate him by not being lazy, but to work so so not to be a burden. Remember that verse? [00:27:30] (35 seconds)  #WorkNotIdle

Think of one or two Christians who have had a strong positive influence in your life and pick one or more godly traits in their life that you would wanna build into your life. That's a good thing to do. That's something you can do. And I I thought about that real quickly. Who who was that people or those people in my life? I can think of one guy who who was a mentor to me when I moved down to Pensacola, Florida, and he invited me into everything. [00:28:25] (31 seconds)  #InviteAndMentor

He he he just said, hey, John, you wanna come along? Hey, John, you wanna come along? Do you wanna do this? And that would that is something I should do actually more than I actually do now because it was so powerful in my life to to invite somebody along. And so I I wanna I wanna do what he did there by being that kind of person that invites others into the opportunities of of living out their faith, and that's what he did for me. [00:28:56] (24 seconds)  #InviteOthersInFaith