)The rule of the raceC. He wants something that will come a great deal closer to him than that. Look away from everything at me. We are to think of this triumph of the Commander as being, first of all, a revelation and a prophecy for us. Oh, it is when you get to the Crucified you see in the Atonement the way to penitence, the possibility of pardon, the path of peace.4. We are led to consider Him in His Divine nature and character.2. Every name by which He is called represents some service which He is prepared to render to us, or is actually rendering us, or some particular aspect of some service. and the crucifix! And not only so, but in another aspect that dear Lord is the Perfecter of our faith, inasmuch as He gives to our faith at the last that which is its aim and end. When a man does a heroic action at some cost to himself, he knows that though it costs it counts. That lifeboat came to them as a saviour. We see in Him one who can take our very place, one who can stand where we should have stood before God, one who can bear what we should have borne, one who can endure what we should have endured. (2)Redeemed in heaven. A. replies the teacher, "for I know that the very time when you were in the bazaar the Sultan with some of his chief attendants went by." These are testifiers as well as spectators.2. The joy set before Jesus was the joy which must be awakened in Jesus as the means of diffusing and spreading so much blessedness. Have you not felt the fierceness of desire, and the difficulty of its domination? Sometimes she comes to a stand altogether. "Oh, no!" And as maintaining and consummating our faith He is also "the finisher." In learning to subdue one sin, thou wilt have been learning how, in time, to subdue all. He endures the one, but He despises the other. WE MUST LAY ASIDE BESETTING SIN. Nobody knows anything about the future life except by means of Jesus Christ. I told her I would see to the matter, and that she might look to me for her rent. But perhaps some of you say, "What has all this to do with 'looking unto Jesus'? Looking, therefore, as an expectant of blessings. He goes before us in the path of faith, and as leading us into faith, and as guiding us into this path, He is "the author," or the "prince of faith." As a matter of fact that is true to every believer, but as matter of experience it is not always so. WE MUST RUN FREE OF WEIGHTS. Lying seems such an inconsequential sin. Jesus, too, Himself speaks of it. Is it so? If, yes, if we are to avoid the curse of Meroz, it is by the hope of a future, and the joy in God that we need to be stimulated, that we need to be sustained in coming "to the help of the Lord against the mighty."IV. We want a Mediator, Example, Friend, such as He is.3. He is our Lord, He confers upon us all true honour and all real reward. "Looking unto Jesus" — we are to copy Him as our pattern. M. Merry, B. The mere professor does not think of thus "looking unto Jesus"; he keeps looking entirely at himself. Do not be content to copy these. That argument has been devoted to the theme of faith. III. In looking, the first thing that strikes us is the difference and contrast between our character and His. "Looking unto Jesus," in confident expectation of the fulfilment of all His promises. "Let us lay aside the sin which doth so closely cling to us" (R.V.). It taught her the lesson, that, in the hour of danger and trouble, deliverance is to be found, and found only, by looking unto Jesus.(T. It must be a loving look. He went a little distance farther, and again turned to look over his steps. There is a cloud of witnesses mentioned in Hebrews 11 that shows us how to live the life of faith. But setting aside all this, which lies upon the very surface of the text, look at the career of the Saviour in another point of view. "Crown of righteousness."4. In the time of your temptation.2. 4. In the smallest things as in the greatest, seek to be what He was, to do what He did, to follow in His footsteps.3. All those violet depths and calm abysses and blazing worlds are concealed from you by the glare at your side — sulphurous and stinking. We want a Mediator, Example, Friend, such as He is. )Looking unto Jesus.Jesus the author and finisher of the Christian's faithH. Looking to Jesus, who has borne the whole of the punishment due to our sins, we are no longer to consider it as penal; this is the sting of death, which He has extracted (2 Timothy 1:10).(G. Is there a joy set before us? and the crucifix! THE REASON FOR IT. How did our Lord pursue His course? Boner, D. D.)Looking unto JesusG. He was so good and I am so evil: He was so strong and I am so weak: He was so bold and I am so cowardly. Spurgeon. Maclaren, D. D.)The joy of JesusS. It is described in these words: "Who for the joy that was set before Him endured the Cross, despising the shame."2. replies the teacher, "for I know that the very time when you were in the bazaar the Sultan with some of his chief attendants went by." And the beloved biographer, who records these traits, himself rising with the dawn to prepare for the demands of his charge. Why not to the cloud of witnesses? He did not disdain luxury: He partook of it. This also affords the best lesson of patience; and for this purpose particularly, we are exhorted, in the text, to look to Jesus; for, it is added, He "endured the Cross, despising the shame." A "weight" is that which, allowable in itself, perhaps a blessing, the exercise of a power which God has given us — is, for some reason, a hindrance in our running the heavenly race. First and foremost, if we would look rightly to Jesus, we must look daily at His DEATH, as the only source of inward peace. )The injury of a besetting sinC. You have offended a father or teacher or friend — you have been guilty of disobedience or untruthfulness or dishonesty. We have to look to Jesus, first, by trusting in that which He has wrought for us. Away from past failure and success; away from human applause and blame; away from the gold pieces scattered on the path, and the flowers that line either side. As we naturally are we cannot take such a thing in — we want to do what we please — we fret at having any restraint put on us. They have not eyes to see it; they have no powers, or faculties with which to pursue it; but every rational being has an object " set before " it. Lastly, our text sets before us Jesus as THE GOAL OF FAITH We are to run "looking unto Jesus" as the end that we should aim at. Yes — and no. His joy was the joy too of being recognised as the great Joy Giver to a number of men which no man can number; and the joy of working out, even to its consummation, the greatest and most glorious work of Jehovah. Is my life and yours a race with a goal, and a prize and a judge, and a cloud of witnesses? And the traveller's heart — though he was a courageous man — began to beat fast, and his head began to swim, until he was in danger of falling over and being killed. He can keep it, and He alone can maintain it. What of secret sins which you try to conceal, but which are always growing stronger, and if unsubdued will go on as they are doing, burning like a fire within, and eating out your very heart and soul? H. It is with Him, above all else, that we must have to do.1. Buffon dragged from his beloved slumbers to his more beloved studies. Now I wish to call special attention before closing to this — that we are to lay aside every weight. As we naturally are we cannot take such a thing in — we want to do what we please — we fret at having any restraint put on us. "Saw! " Again, He is "the prince of faith" as leading us into faith. To do His will is rest and heaven.2. He must be the great central fascination, on which the eye fixes itself, and to which it ever reverts if for a moment it is withdrawn. As the sunshine of the morning lifts the mists, and reveal the landscape, and clothes it with a mantle of beauty, making the very rock burst into life and surround itself with verdure, so this influence from above, from the celestial realms which we have not reached, but toward which we are tending, and the gates of which Christ opens to us, disperses from the spirit what is malefic or obscure, and prints a new and vital beauty on it all.3. Then, as Himself continuing in faith to the end, He is "the finisher." That just means — she trusted me for it. By the study of His biography.2. We are to think of this triumph of the Commander as being, first of all, a revelation and a prophecy for us. The highest reaches that any man ever has of joy in this world are those which he has through the ministration of grief and of sorrow. Loving. His joy was the joy too of being recognised as the great Joy Giver to a number of men which no man can number; and the joy of working out, even to its consummation, the greatest and most glorious work of Jehovah.II. Divine love, yet also human love. We have the motive of His sufferings presented as being an unseen reward for Himself, which He brought vividly before Him by the exercise of His faith. He threw himself like a judgment-bolt into the face of rulers. "How did you get your path so true?" Oh, that I might glorify Thee, my Creator, my Preserver, my Redeemer! It is the sad tendency of man, notwithstanding, to turn to other dependencies.3. It is the great opportunity for the artist who is toiling, by Divine assistance, at the world outside him; because, first, he is toiling at his own Soul. Presently, looking upward, she saw in that part of the heavens immediately above the mouth of the pit a beautiful bright star. You cannot be wrong in putting them away. Some scene of stirring interest, in which he, the great philosopher of his age, had borne a conspicuous part? Have we an end? They surround the Christian runner.2. You find the reason here: they are always looking for recognition and sanction from men, from the Church of God, from their fellow disciples, and sometimes where they never ought to look for it, from the men of this world. It is a vessel with water in it. It is the joy of coming out of darkness into light; it is the joy of passing from death, and from a death of which they are conscious, into life; it is the joy of coming out of wretched ignorance into sure and certain knowledge; it is the joy of rising from a state of distrust into a condition of confidence and faith; it is the joy of being converted from enmity, and alienation, and indifference towards God, into filial love. The position of the spectators. Humiliation is another advantage derived from looking to Jesus. B. Meyer, B. A.I. The chief end of man is to glorify God; let it be my chief end, even as it was my Lord's. Remember there is in Christ for you a fulness of acceptance, therefore do not doubt Him; there is fulness of peace, therefore trust Him; there is fulness of life, therefore abide in Him; there is fulness of blessing, therefore delight in Him; there is fulness of power, therefore wait upon Him; there is ful-ness of grace, therefore receive from Him; there is fulness of love, therefore be taken up with Him; there is fulness of teaching, therefore learn of Him; there is fulness of joy, therefore rejoice in Him; there is fulness of fulness in Him, therefore be full in Him; there is fulness of riches, therefore count upon Him; there is fulness of strength, therefore lean upon Him; there is fulness of light, therefore walk with Him; and there is fulness of energy, therefore be subject to Him.(T. 2. By drawing power from Christ. Throw all our engagements away? Now, the Lord Jesus bids you look to Him — away from all else — away from your own doing or deserving- away from the godliest and best friends you have. IN LOOKING, HOW ARE WE AFFECTED? A race has been set before me; and it is my duty to find out what that race is, and run it, and not waste life in regrets that I cannot run a different one, or life's energies in unsuccessful attempts to do so.Patient runningJ. It tells us to “lay aside every encumbrance”. The "therefore" of Hebrews 12:1 is a reference back to Hebrews 11, the great hall of fame of faith. The first "weight" to be got quit of is that of unforgiven sin, and like "Christian's" burden, that can only be got rid of at the Cross. Let the counter attraction be what it may, its power is to be resisted: its spell is to be broken, and the full gaze of the soul is to concentrate itself on Immanuel alone, Now, in the direction of the apostle, as thus expounded, I think we are called to note particularly three suggested thoughts.1. THE JOY OF VICTORY. A glance of His glory, and a sense of interest in His favour, will make us indifferent alike to its smiles and its frowns; and all the glittering objects that men pursue with such avidity, will appear as unworthy of our affections as the painted toys of children.6. You will be helped to look to Him when you remember that He is the finisher of your faith by what He has wrought for you; for the text saith, "He endured the Cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God." The first Adam lost faith in God; and no man could set Adam the first up as a prince; but the second Adam maintained faith even in the severest trials, and, therefore, you may call Jesus " the prince of faith."3. He can keep it, and He alone can maintain it. Joy has a depth and a stillness far beyond mere merriment. And religious perplexity. A forced gaze there cannot be; a careless gaze on an object so Divinely glorious, so infinitely attractive, seems altogether incredible when you consider to whom you are looking. He is "the author, or prince of faith," being Himself the highest example of faith. In truth, Christ is to you what you require Him to be, if you will only let Him be what you need Him to be.4. Look at Him on the throne of His triumphant mediation.III. Difficulties.4. If we think a good thought, or do a good deed, it is owing to Christ. Life is a journey; BUT LIFE IS SOMETHING MORE. Here is a triumph peculiar to the gospel; a triumph far superior to those of kings and conquerors; a triumph over the king of terrors. He keeps his eye away from the eye of the Master. THE PERSON" SET FORTH HERE IS JESUS; He, whose name is the light and glory of Scripture; whose coming and work formed the subject of ancient type, and symbol, and prophecy.1. Heaven, Glorification. Faith is the vivid realisation of the unseen; and surely never was there a life lived amidst the shows and illusions of time which so manifestly and transparently was all passed in the vivid consciousness of that unseen world, as was the life of that Son of Man, who, in the midst of all earth's engagements, could call Himself " the Son of Man which is in heaven." This may be a monition to us, to scrutinise with the strictest caution our own heart, to look well if there be any culpable inclination or passion lurking in it, that we may not be deceived by any flattering reports of our character made by self-partiality. The evil of our nature, the evil of the universe, seems well-nigh omnipotent. A great many men lose the prize by dropping out of the text altogether the clause which we have put in italics. To run well is of importance; to start right is of prime importance. If your joy be Christ's joy, and you make it your goal, and your prize, and if you run your race with patience, the day will soon come when you shall find yourselves not worn and weary on the course, but sweetly resting at the goal; and the day, too, will come when your feeble hands shall grasp the prize — your hands stretched out by the impulse of a heart filled with joy unspeakable, and full of glory.(S. With different constitutions, and with different ages, there are different easily besetting sins. He lies, like a great hulk in the wash of worldly opinion, without helm or sail. That "sitting" expresses rest, as from a finished and perfect work; a rest which is not inactivity; dominion extending over all the universe, and judgment. Do not you suppose that this joy that He saw in the future made Him a man of joy, and not of sorrow? Payson.The reason why the men of the world think so little of Christ is, they do not look at Him. Dryden composing in a single fortnight his ode for St. Cecilia's Day. Every wise man has a reason for his conduct, and every good man a good reason. Many a good writer has been spoiled to make an insolvent merchant; not a few good housekeepers to make execrable poets; now and then an execrable mechanic to make a poor preacher. You treat the foundation as though it were either unnecessary, or as though it were not worthy of your building upon it. D. This story has always reminded me of " looking away" unto Jesus, and of His leaving us an example that we should follow His steps. 4. That lifeboat came to them as a saviour. Thus our churches, our families, are broken into two parts; one portion being exulted to the palace of the skies, the other fragment remaining in this lower realm, and used to ends apparently most commonplace and servile; yet we cannot contemplate the broken jewel, shining in the palace of the King, without thinking more highly of this other portion below, and watching it with intenser care lest its beauty should be dimmed, or its preciousness impaired, or its safety imperilled. "Looking unto Jesus," moreover, as an object of love. There is one more advantage to be expected from looking to Jesus; an advantage of such magnitude, that we may challenge the universe to equal it, and that is, ability to meet death with calmness and joy. Those who were in the race had to look to the starter; for the runner who should get first by a false start would not win, because he did not run according to the rules of the race. We speak now of Christ as a man (not ignoring, however, His Divine nature), and we say of Him, that He is "the author or prince of faith," because He is the first man who on this earth has maintained faith. And shall we do the most excellent and fruitful work fruitlessly — hear only to hear, and look no further? How?1. Will you make the joy of others your goal? It is the great opportunity for the artist who is toiling, by Divine assistance, at the world outside him; because, first, he is toiling at his own Soul. He had a delight, indeed, not, to use a modern phrase, "in influencing the masses," but in saving you and me.3. We must keep the prize in view.5. J. Stevenson, M. Knowledge, too, of His veracity, and of His fidelity, and a corresponding confidence.5. Means of grace.III. The creatures that are not rational live and exist for an end, but the end is not " set before" them. You cannot copy Him too exactly. To one person the besetting sin may be uncleanness of imagination; to another, irritability of temper. And He will do it in another way too, by the rewards and blessings which He will give to the imperfect and tentative exercise of our confidence, over-answering our petitions, and flooding us with more than we expected when we tremulously tried to trust on Him; and so inducing us to be bolder in our confidence, and to venture further afield. )Advantages obtained by looking unto JesusG. Preeminent in the grandeur of soul with which He met unparalleled sufferings.3. What character is more universally despised than that of a coward? Love lightens toil, and makes even waiting more than endurable.2. (3)Holiest on earth.2. Do not be content to copy these. A forced gaze there cannot be; a careless gaze on an object so Divinely glorious, so infinitely attractive, seems altogether incredible when you consider to whom you are looking. So long as they are unsubdued they are a "weight" that seriously hinders. Joy has a moral force, because it rises out of and combines real and constituent spiritual elements, loftier, more enduring than pleasure; it draws its life and gathers its strength from the most vigorous and the most varied faculties of our nature. The text is about 'looking,' not trusting." SERMON NOTES. (1) First, we are to copy His endurance. 4. W. Andrew Davis. Would it pause at the approach of invading footsteps, or would it — as all beautiful things in this low world — would it fade and be gone? The starter was in his place, and the men stood all waiting and looking. Because we find in Him the answer to the deepest needs of our souls.3. But the more this one fault spreads, the more, if you uproot it, you will clear of the field of your conscience, the more will your heart become the good ground, which, freed from thorns, shall bear fruit, thirty, sixty, a hundredfold, to life everlasting.Thou hast, then, great reason to be most watchful to uproot thy besetting sin, because —1. The eyes outstrip the feet; but this also is well, for the feet will thus be made to move the faster. We answer, By looking unto Jesus. )The necessity of looking to ChristE. Summerfield, M. A.I. He has gone up on high, sitting at the right hand of the throne of God to work for us. It needed no signal of distress, for it was within sight of the shore. O. He lets you draw upon His strength.(J. The first thing we want is a Saviour. "Looking to Jesus" supplies the strongest motive to run well our Christian race; that is, love towards Himself. They are pursuits like ambition, socializing, decorating, golf, tennis, surfing the web, movies, music, talking on the phone too much, playing too many video games, reading too many unimportant books. In all their trials and persecutions, under Roman Emperors and heathen rulers, they cheered one another with the thought that their own King would soon come again, and plead their cause. He never stopped running till He could sit down at the right hand of the throne of God; and that is the only place where you may sit down.IV. Have you not felt the fierceness of desire, and the difficulty of its domination? They have not eyes to see it; they have no powers, or faculties with which to pursue it; but every rational being has an object " set before " it. Thus, He draws us further out into the great sea of His love. Their number. Let us run towards Jesus, that we may grow more like Him. They may originate in the very senses. Then he always interprets those providences in his own favour which allow him to shirk hard work and swing in his hammock. Maclaren, D. D.)The joy of JesusS. ), you have a wonderful list of worthies. Religion requires self-denial.2. (2)Redeemed in heaven. No man is crowned unless he strives lawfully. By the study of His biography.2. When they arrived at their stopping place, each halted and looked back. )Looking unto Jesus.Jesus the author and finisher of the Christian's faithH. The occupation of heart and mind with Jesus Christ is the secret of practical Christianity. There is a force, fierce as an unfettered animal, wild as the wind, strong as the storm; it springs from the fever and fret of a restless heart needing and finding no satisfaction. It is not any race, but a particular one. Well, so far, and yet only so far. 1. Poor and pitiable are the hopes of the moralist or the philosopher who does not look to Christ Jesus as his Redeemer.The Author and Finisher of our faith.The Commander of the faithfulA. But if He were to give you His strength, it would not be so difficult, would it? Why not to himself? When they arrived at their stopping place, each halted and looked back. He disdained amenities. (The Weekly Pulpit. Call it taedium vitae; call it ennui; call it a lazy weariness of spirit in the overworked toiler for this world, or in the blase idler — whatever you call it, it is that mortal sickness of the human spirit, worn out with a life of unsatisfied desire, with the knowledge that riches and pleasure cannot gain for it a salvation or win for it a rest — possessions only of those who hold the hope of a future, itself the first dawning of supernatural joy.2. To this end was I born, and for this end would I live in every action of my life. Times of temptation.3. H. Spurgeon.There was but one crack in the lantern, and the wind has found it out and blown out the candle. IN LOOKING, WHAT DO WE LEARN? Is not this fact a blessed help to us? Consider that He did these things every morning, every noon, and every evening. He can have no fear of wanting anything. We want more Protestants against sin, more Dissenters from carnal maxims, and more Nonconformists to the world.(C. Spurgeon. I once saw a ship at sea, off the east coast of Scotland, in a storm. Let us look off unto Jesus. But a mystery it is, beautiful, wonderful, bringing life out of death, as spring flowers are the children of the winter, and forming the subject-matter Of our Redeemer's joy.2. Master.3. You cannot copy Him too exactly. We see in Him a willing sufferer for others, and we learn willingly to suffer. "He shall see of the travail of His soul, and shall be satisfied." Nature is weak; but grace is strong, yea, almighty. 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