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| Hebrews 12:1-2 
 
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|  |  | Hebrews 12:1-2 | 
|  | 1. | There's a way before us and a race to run- | 
|  |  | Christ our way, Christ our way! | 
|  |  | Turn away from everything distracting us- | 
|  |  | Run the race, run the race! | 
|  |  | >From the altar through the Holy Place, | 
|  |  | Through the veil into our God, | 
|  |  | To the law of life within the ark; | 
|  |  | 'Tis the goal, our great reward. | 
|  | 2. | There's a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, | 
|  |  | Urging us, forward come! | 
|  |  | There is Abel, Enoch, Jacob, Abraham, | 
|  |  | Moses, David, Solomon. | 
|  |  | John the Baptist greater than them all, | 
|  |  | Even he bids forward come! | 
|  |  | These all died in faith, receiving not | 
|  |  | Promises that were to come. | 
|  | 3. | The Old Testament believers give the call, | 
|  |  | "Forward come, forward come!" | 
|  |  | For complete perfection they depend on us | 
|  |  | Going on! Going on! | 
|  |  | We are at the consummation now | 
|  |  | Of our God's economy; | 
|  |  | Better things we are experiencing. | 
|  |  | Praise the Lord-reality! | 
|  | 4. | E'en the least of us is greater than their great. | 
|  |  | We're not small, we're not small! | 
|  |  | They are waiting, watching, and expecting us. | 
|  |  | "Forward come!" hear their call! | 
|  |  | They have run the race and for their sakes | 
|  |  | We'll obey the law of life. | 
|  |  | Till the day we'll all be joined in one | 
|  |  | To express God's glorious Christ. |