Run the Race with Endurance

Renewing Your Mind

Ligonier Ministries

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🗓️ 26 June 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

The Christian life is one of endurance. But we’re not the first ones to run this race of faith. Today, R.C. Sproul recalls the champions of faith in the book of Hebrews who encourage us to press forward with eyes fixed on Jesus.

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Meet Today’s Teacher:

R.C. Sproul (1939–2017) was founder of Ligonier Ministries, first minister of preaching and teaching at Saint Andrew’s Chapel, first president of Reformation Bible College, and executive editor of Tabletalk magazine.

Meet the Host:

Nathan W. Bingham is vice president of ministry engagement for Ligonier Ministries, executive producer and host of Renewing Your Mind, and host of the Ask Ligonier podcast.

Renewing Your Mind is a donor-supported outreach of Ligonier Ministries. Explore all of our podcasts: https://www.ligonier.org/podcasts

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0:00.0	Let's not go back, let's not be slack, let's pick up the pace.
0:05.0	Let's move ahead.
0:06.0	Let's move from walking to run and running with endurance,
0:11.0	looking not backwards, not to the side, but looking at the finish line, and watching for Jesus.
0:29.2	Hebrews 12 begins with the exhortation to run the race with endurance, and to encourage us on this race, in the preceding chapter, the writer of Hebrews walks us through
0:34.3	the whole of faith, reminding us of faith-filled men and women from the past.
0:40.6	This is the Thursday edition of Renewing Your Mind as we conclude three days in the book of Hebrews.
0:47.4	Hebrews is a New Testament book that can be confusing given how much background information is assumed by the writer. So I hope you have found
0:56.0	these messages in Hebrews beneficial in your study of scripture. You can continue listening to
1:01.3	these messages when you request the entire collection with your donation of any amount at
1:07.3	renewingyourmind.org before this offer ends at midnight tonight.
1:12.2	To further fuel your Bible study, we'll also send you the DVD set of Dust to Glory,
1:18.5	which is R.C. Sprole's overview of the entire Bible. I'll be sure to remind you of these two
1:24.0	resources after today's message. Well, here's Dr. Sprawl on the exhortation to run the race with endurance.
1:34.3	We ended in our last session with the statement in verse 13 of Hebrews 11, that these all died in faith, not having received the promises,
1:50.6	but having seen them afar off, were assured of them, embraced them, and confessed
1:58.1	that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.
2:03.3	No matter how many times I read that verse of the New Testament,
2:07.3	I am moved in my soul every time I see it,
2:12.9	to think that those saints in the Old Testament
2:17.3	devoted their entire lives to the pursuit of godliness
2:24.6	in obeying God and trusting God, people like Abraham, whom God takes through all of this experience.
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