Sunday Service 2-21-10

Living the Victorious Christian Life - Part 13

Overcome

NOTES FROM SERMON HEARD AT: Spirit of Fire Evangelistic Ministries Pastor Jerry Begin To listen to the sermon, visit:http://www.spiritoffire.org/ To Comment on this sermon, look for the small "comment" button at the bottom of this Sunday's sermon. If you go to the bottom of the whole blog to comment, you will have scanned through notes of several earlier sermons. Note: sometimes the post does not come up, in which case press the preview button after you have written and then submit.

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Prophecy:

God has a plan and a purpose for everyday, whether you know it or not. He has a plan and a purpose for everyday that you go through, whether you know it or not.

Be not discouraged or afraid because God is always there.

It is not of God if you were told that you have messed up too much.

Why are we to prepare for war? We have an enemy and we have to learn to fight.

In the end of the book, Revelation, God wins. The question is “Will you win?” God gave us the grace to be saved. It is a gift. Since we are born again, He has given us the ability and power to line up with the Kingdom of God.

It is up to us to overcome. No one will do it for you. You must do it for yourself.

When He spoke to the 7 Churches, He said “You did well here, but did you do this….?”

Rev 2:7 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 tree of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God.

You have ears but are you willing to listen, pay attention?

Rev 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.

Rev 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.

Rev 2:26 And he that overcometh, and keepeth my works unto the end, to him will I give power over the nations:

(we have something at the end of the world that is greater than we know now)

Rev 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.

Rev 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.

Rev 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.

Rev 21:6 And he said unto me, It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely.

Rev 21:7 He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son.

Rev 21:8 But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.

If we live like hell, we will be treated like hell. We can’t fool with God.

We can’t just go around and say we that we are saved. When Jesus Christ redeemed you, you belong to Him. God created you with a purpose and plan and He expects you to overcome and do battle.

God is going to teach you how to stand up for your soul and the soul of others.

How we overcome

Rev 12:11 And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.

It is the Blood of the Lamb that overcame sin and death. There is no power in the universe that can overcome you. Jesus has helped you overcome by His Blood and by the Word of our testimony.

What kind of testimony do you have?

Add all the days, weeks, years, that you have been saved- what is the percentage of that time that you have gloried God and what is the percentage of that which you have glorified the devil?

God has a greater plan. When He says that they overcame by the blood of the Lamb and their testimony- the warfare is for us and the souls of others.

God gave us the power to overcome, to liberate:

- ourselves

- others

We are to continue what the cross has started in our home, our neighborhood, and to the uttermost parts of the world

Are we liberating people or are they still in bondage to the devil? Are we doing everything possible to free souls? God wants us to be soldiers, over-comers.

If we go before the Lord with power and ability to liberate others and we haven’t done that, what will we say?

We will go through an exodus in the next few weeks- He will teach us how to be warriors.

God wants us to restore- bring forth the Kingdom. People are drowning, dying. We need to restore others (consider Haiti- it is a mirror of what the world looks like).

We are chosen for this time and place to be soldiers, to liberate, restore, to pray for healing and restoration with power.

Is that part of my testimony? Sometimes healing is to listen to someone with a broken heart.

There are no accidents.

We are called:

To protect- not just ourselves. We are to protect the weak.

To defend- defend the helpless, i.e. those we have judged, aborted babies, those caught In sin

To establish the Kingdom- not the kingdom of darkness, to bring in His righteousness- live lives of righteousness

To are to represent or be ambassadors of men to God- Are we reconciling men to God? Do we say what the Kingdom says?

To bring the rule and reign of Jesus with Jesus - in the area of the works of the devil.

In the end, God sends His Son on a white steed with His army. Are you going to be an overcomer?

Limitless ability in Christ:

Php 4:12-13

(12) I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound: every where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need.

(13) I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.

2Co 3:4-5

(4) And such trust have we through Christ to God-ward:

(5) Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God;

1Co 9:24-27

(24) Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain.

(25) And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible.

(26) I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air:

(27) But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.

(unless I be one who has no testimony)

2Th 2:3-5

(3) Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;

(4) Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.

(5) Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things?

Doer of God’s Word

Do we conform to God’s Word?

We are to have extreme powerful lives that will give a testimony

It takes a warrior’s heart to take the perseverance- the worst part is to see your own sin, knowing that your lover wants a Bride without spot or wrinkle. It will take an over-comer. If not, you won’t have Jesus as the Lover of my soul. When we come to the Lord, we need to make Him Lord, following His guidance and direction in our lives.