The Overcoming Life



No Born Losers In God´s Family

Believers are equipped to win
Divine resources are ours for every battle
There really is victory in Jesus

Facing Three Powerful Enemies

Spiritual Adversaries
Recurring anxieties
The world´s allurements

We Can Overcome

Overcoming our Adversaries

read  1 John 4:1-4

Spiritual Adversaries Are Always Active.  1 John 4:1-3

Speaking through false prophets.  1 John 4:1
The spirit of antichrist.  1 John 4:3

Our Adversaries Are Deceptive And Powerful.

the wiles of the devil.  Ephesians 6:11
principalities and powers.  Ephesians 6:12
the rulers of darkness of this world.  Ephesians 6:12

Why We Can Overcome These Powerful Adversaries.

Greater is He that is in us than he that is in the world.
The Holy Spirit is the One in us.  John 14:16-17

The believer´s body is God´s temple.  1 Corinthians 6:19-20

Expect to overcome.

Overcoming our Anxieties

read  1 John 4:18

There is no fear in love.

Responding to God´s love brings faith.
Faith and fear are opposites.

Perfect love casteth out fear.

Knowing we are loved makes us unafraid.
This perfect love brought Jesus to the cross.
Saving love is also keeping love

Fear brings torment.

God´s perfect love brings tranquility.

Stop being tormented by fear.
We overcome fear by resting in His perfect love.  Matthew 11:28-30

Overcoming the World´s Allurements

read  1 John 5:1-4

We are born again through faith in Christ 1 John 5:1

New birth equips us to overcome.

The world holds many allurements.

The lust of the flesh.
The lust of the eyes.
The pride of life.

Faith is the victory that overcomes the world.

Conclusion

Rewards For Overcomers

read  Revelation 2:11
read  Revelation 2:17
read  Revelation 2:26
read  Revelation 3:5
read  Revelation 3:12
read  Revelation 3:21

A Call To Commitment For Those Who Long To Overcome



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1 John 4:1 Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.
2 Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God:
3 And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world.
4 Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.
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John 14:16 And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever;
17 Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.
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1 Corinthians 6:19 What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?
20 For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God´s.
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1 John 4:18 There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love.
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Matthew 11:28 Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
29 Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.
30 For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.
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1 John 5:1 Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God: and every one that loveth him that begat loveth him also that is begotten of him.
2 By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep his commandments.
3 For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.
4 For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith.
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Revelation 2:11 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; He that overcometh shall not be hurt of the second death.
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Revelation 2:17 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches;
To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden manna, and will give him a white stone, and in the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth saving he that receiveth it.
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Revelation 2:26 And he that overcometh, and keepeth my works unto the end, to him will I give power over the nations:
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Revelation 3:5 He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white raiment; and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life, but I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels.
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Revelation 3:12 Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out:
and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God,
which is new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God: and I will write upon him my new name.
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Revelation 3:21 To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne.
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Ephesians 6:11 Take up God´s instruments of war, so that you may be able to keep your position against all the deceits of the Evil One.
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Ephesians 6:12 For our fight is not against flesh and blood, but against authorities and powers, against the world-rulers of this dark night, against the spirits of evil in the heavens.
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