Hebrews 12: 1-11  Boxing in God’s Gym: The Old One-Two

Hebrews 12:1 Let us  lay aside every encumbrance and the sin which so easily entangles us

2 fixing our eyes on Jesus

3 For consider Him who has endured such hostility by sinners against Himself, so that you will not grow weary and lose heart.

4 You have not yet resisted to the point of shedding blood in your striving boxing against sin;

5 and you have forgotten the exhortation dialog which is addressed to you as sons,

“My son, do not regard lightly despise the discipline developmental training of the Lord,

Nor faint become weak-kneed when you are reproved re-proved by Him;

6 For those whom the Lord loves He disciplines developmentally trains,

And He scourges develops every son whom He receives.”

Psalm 84:11 No good thing does He withhold from those who walk uprightly who are the righteous

11 All discipline for the moment seems not to be joyful, but sorrowful;

yet to those who have been trained by it, afterwards it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness.

Lamentations 5:17 Because of this our heart is faint,

Because of these things our eyes are dim

Proverbs 29:18 Where there is no clear vision, the people perish are out of control

 Lamentations 3:52 My enemies without cause hunted me down like a bird;

Lamentations 1:13 He has made me desolate, faint all day long

2:11 My eyes fail because of tears, my spirit is greatly troubled

1:18 For I have rebelled against His commandments

3:1 I am the man who has seen affliction because of the rod of His wrath.

3:10 He is to me like a bear lying in wait, like a lion in secret places

3:13 He made the arrows of His quiver to enter into my inward parts.

1:14 The Lord has given me into the hands of those against whom I am not able to stand.

3:8 Even when I cry out and call for help, He shuts out my prayer

3:7 He has walled me in so that I cannot go out. He has made my chain heavy

James 1:2-4 Consider it all joy, my brethren, when you encounter various trials, knowing that the testing proving of your faith produces endurance resilience. And let endurance resilience have its perfect result, so that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.

I John 4:18 There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves punishment, and the one who fears is not perfected in love

Isaiah 40:31 Yet those who wait for the LORD will gain new strength