THE SCENE: 25 and calm. Perfect!
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER: Sorta kinda
WARM-O-RAMA:
- Grady corns
- LIH / RFTS
- Temp squats
- Mountain climbers
At the fountain;
THA THANG:
Mosey to the Recruiting Center
10 stations set out – each has an exercise.
Tabata – 22 seconds on, 8 seconds rest. 3 tabatas per round, then switch stations.
- CMU Curls
- CMU Split Squat
- Ball Slams
- Heavy lunges
- Battle rope Alternating waves
- Stack squat
- Jump rope
- Tire hit
- Pull-ups
Circle o’ Mary
Now…repeat it all again! This time, exercises are;
- CMU Triceps
- CMU Swing
- Throw from chest
- Goblet squat
- Battle Rope slams
- Good mornings
- Jump rope
- Tire flip
- Chin-ups
MARY:
Play the song “Turn it Up” by Oh the Larceny. Each time they say “Turn it Up” – do a burpee. Otherwise, do SSH in tempo with the song.
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
Me and 5 of the best men I know
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
I riffed on Bobbitt’s Word from Tuesday – he talked about the wonder of Christmas. The wonder of the virgin birth and the miracle of God come down. He encouraged us to live this season in wonder.
We talked about Christmas as celebrating the beginning of the end… We zoomed out from the nativity and a little baby in a manger, and started the Christmas story 2,000 years before Jesus was born…
An ancient man named Abraham made a covenant with his God, Jehovah. Abraham’s God told him, “I will bless you, I will expand your family, I will offer you protection. You and your descendants must do right by me”. Later Moses described rightness-by-God in detail – 613 commandments to be kept to the letter. And if you can’t do all of these things right – and you CAN’T… then the cost of your failure is BLOOD. It should be YOUR blood, but you can ritually kill an animal in your place as a substitute. That was the system – the Abrahamic covenant and the Mosiac Law. Try your hardest to do all of these things – when you fail, sacrifice animals and hope that God is appeased by their blood instead of yours. That’s the relationship that man had with God for 2,000 years.
…and into that system, a baby was born. A few people knew that this was the prophesized messiah – but I doubt that anyone truly comprehended the plan that had been set in motion with that baby’s birth. The day that Jesus was born, a countdown began – and from that moment on, the old covenant and law was on borrowed time. Christmas celebrates the beginning of the end of the Mosaic law, with its impossible set of rules and requirement for atonement blood – all of that was superseded.
The sleeping baby in a manager will grow up to live a perfect life, and ~33 years later would offer Himself as the ultimate sacrifice – FOREVER fulfilling that blood atonement requirement of the Mosaic law – and ushering in a new deal with Jehovah – a new covenant. Here are the terms of the new covenant… 1) Jesus did the hard work, and 2) you just need to believe and accept His gift.
But wait – there’s more! None of the men in the BOM – nor most of the men in F3 – were privy to Abraham’s blessing of the old covenant. With few exceptions, that deal was for Abraham’s descendants only – and that does not include most of us Gentiles. The new covenant not only does away with the impossible crushing burden of the law, but it also opens the blessing to ALL people, including you and me. How’s that for a good trade?!?!
One wonder of Christmas is that it was the beginning of the end of the old impossible law. We celebrate the birth of a baby who would later offer a new and wonderful way to live right by Jehovah – by faith alone.
Here’s a Christmas verse for you;
Titus 2:11-12, “For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all people.”
MOLESKIN:
Prayers for the family and widow of Coates
Prayers to lead well through a difficult situation at the office
Prayers for our boys who are traveling over the holidays
Romans 8:2-4, “For the law of the life-giving Spirit in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and death. 3 For God achieved what the law could not do because it was weakened through the flesh. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and concerning sin, he condemned sin in the flesh, 4 so that the righteous requirement of the law may be fulfilled in us, who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.”
Romans 7:6, “But now we are released from the law, having died to that which held us captive, so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit and not in the old way of the written code.”
Galatians 3:24, “So then, the law was our guardian until Christ came, in order that we might be justified by faith.”
Hebrews 8:7, “For if that first covenant had been faultless, there would have been no occasion to look for a second.”
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Family Workout tomorrow at 10:00am. Start at our normal shovel flag location. Be there!
