SURROUNDED BY A CLOUD OF WITNESSES

1. Believers are on a journey of faith to perfection2. God called & prepared many before we arrived3. God planned something better for us with them4. God’s plan requires believers of all generations5. Keeping on track by keeping our eyes on JesusHebrews 11:39 These were all commended for their faith, yetnone of them received what had been promised. 40 God hadplanned something better for us so that only together with uswould they be made perfect. - (NIV84)Hebrews 12:1 Therefore, since we are surrounded by sucha great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything thathinders and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run withperseverance the race marked out for us. 2 Let us fix our eyeson Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joyset before him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and satdown at the right hand of the throne of God. 3 Consider himwho endured such opposition from sinful men, so that you willnot grow weary and lose heart. - (NIV84