PROMISES MADE 4
OVERCOME
Obedience to the Law Vs. Obedience to the Promise
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We respond to what he has called us!
He calls us disciples – we respond by seeking the promises
He calls us Salt and Light – we find a need and fill it, find a hurt and heal it!
. He called us to become something (Promise)
Seek out what it is we would want to become – what His promise transforms us into.
3. OVERCOMERS
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Careful about what I schedule: totally overbooked or overwhelmed
Preach 5 different messages – external broadcasts, church consults
Life seems to wash over us!
Become victims to our own lives.
Life happens!
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Weight problem Addiction Trapped in a job
Depression Inadequacy Small things
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WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE?
WITH CHRIST, YOU ARE AN OVERCOMER.
If God is for us, who can be against us? 32 He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all — how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things?… 35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? 37 No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through (Christ) who loved us.
Rom 8:31-32, 35, 37
hupernikao (hoop-er-nik-ah’-o); to vanquish beyond recognition, gain a decisive victory, exceedingly more than a conqueror.
Rocky Balboa: Gideon, Red Sea, Crush the opponent
In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world. John 16:33
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Rev 12: I am… an overcomer… by the blood of the lamb
Because of Jesus I am an overcomer!
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Revelation 12:11 The Passion Translation (TPT)They conquered him completely
through the blood of the Lamb
and the powerful word of his testimony.[a]
They triumphed because they did not love and cling
to their own lives, even when faced with death.
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David and Goliath!
AS AN OVERCOMER:
1. FIGHT WITH CONQUERING ATTITUDES!
Faith-filled attitudes lead to faith-filled actions!
Godly beliefs lead to godly behavior!
You are not just a victim of your circumstances, nothing u can do to change it.
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Always going to: worry, overweight, depressed, dead end job.
Can’t seem to control my anger, stop lusting, forgive others/self.
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Victim thinking… Not a victim—Through Christ—Victor!
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We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.
2 Corinthians 10:5
Can’t do it? —I can do all things!
Impossible? —all things are possible with God!
Don’t have enough faith? —faith of a mustard seed!
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I will not let what others said to me, did to me, or believe about me to stop me!
In your strength I can crush an army; with my God I can scale any wall.
Ps 18:29 NLT
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2. FIGHT WITH SUPERNATURAL WEAPONS!
For though we live in the world, we do not wage war as the world does. 4 The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds.
2 Cor 10:3-5
Helmet, Breastplate, Shield, Belt, Shoes, Sword
Fight like a man—now I fight like a man of God!
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But we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us. 8 We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; 9 persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed.
2 Cor 4:7-9
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Because you have been called by Jesus – disciple; a promise seeker, You can overcome:
Betrayal; addictions; need 2 control or people please; worry; cancer; marriage–affair
Overcome negative thinking! Fear failure, Caring what people think!
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You, dear children, are from God and have overcome (the evil ones), because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world.
1 John 4:4
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“More than conquerors… It was not a wish. It was a fact. We knew it, we experienced it minute by minute–poor, hated, hungry. We are more than conquerors. Not “we shall be.” We are! Life took place on two different levels… One, the observable, external life, grew every day more horrible. The other, the life we lived with God, grew daily better, truth upon truth, glory upon glory.”
Corrie Ten Boom
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…for everyone born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world, even our faith. 5 Who is it that overcomes the world? Only he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God.
1 John 5:4-5
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Because of what He has called us we can:
nikao (nik-ah’-o); subdue, conquer, overcome, prevail, get the victory.