How To Overcome The World
With Jesus We Overcome The World
The way to overcome the world is with Jesus. The only requirement from God to overcome the world is to get saved where Jesus is your Lord. The bible tells us that when anyone gets saved with Jesus they overcome the world. 1 John 5:4-5 says For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world, and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith. Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God? Notice how God emphasizes and repeats three times the words "overcometh the world" that is done by faith in Jesus.
You don't have to do extra good works to be an overcomer; Just salvation with Jesus will overcome this troubled world. Not the blood of Jesus plus works, wafers, or water; Just the blood of Jesus plus nothing saves. Right now get saved with Jesus and become an overcomer; Repent, decide to stop sinning, confess that Jesus is God, and believe the gospel that Jesus died for you on the cross, was buried, and rose again.
Jesus told us how to overcome the troubled world at John 16:33: These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace; in the world ye shall have tribulation; but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world. Notice that Jesus said in me (not in you) will you have peace to overcome the the world. When anyone gets saved and is in Christ, they become a new creature and an overcomer of the world.
2 Corinthians 5:17 says Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature; old things are passed away, behold all things are become new. When you are saved with Jesus you are an overcomer no matter what happens around you. Saved christians are overcomers not going to hell, getting a new glorified body with the promise to enter the new heavens and new earth to see Jesus and our loved ones in peace forever.
How To Overcome The World
We Overcome The World With Jesus And Not Ourselves
We overcome the world with Jesus and not ourselves. 1 Corinthians 15:57 says But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. You don't have to work to get victory over the world; After salvation by faith, Jesus gives you victory over the world. Notice that it is not us (in our flesh) overcoming and getting the victory over this troubled world. It's Jesus overcoming through us to give us the victory over this troubled world. Philippians 4:13 promises I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.
John encouraged us that with Jesus we will overcome the wicked one (the devil) and this troubled world. 1 John 2:13-14 says I write unto you, fathers, because ye have known Him (Jesus) that is from the beginning. I write unto you, young men, because ye have overcome the wicked one. I write unto you little children, because ye have known the Father. I have written unto you, fathers, because ye have known Him that is from the beginning. I have written unto you, young men, because ye are strong, and the Word of God abideth in you, and ye have overcome the wicked one. Notice that when you realize that with Jesus you overcome the devil, you will become strong. Isaiah 35:3 promises Strengthen ye the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees. Say to them that are of a fearful heart, Be strong, fear not; behold, your God will come with vengeance, even God with a recompence; He will come and save you.
Jesus overcame, destroyed, and defeated the devil when Jesus died on the cross of Calvary. Hebrews 2:14 says Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, He (Jesus) also Himself likewise took part of the same; that through death (on the cross) He might destroy Him that had the power of death, that is, the devil. When the devil challenges you to play his game in this troubled world, tell the devil that the game is over; The final scoreboard says the devil lost the game and was defeated when the Lord Jesus destroyed the devil at the cross of Calvary. We win with Jesus and overcome this world and the devil with Jesus' peace that passeth all understanding (Philippians 4:7).
How To Overcome The World
With Jesus We Overcome The Devil And This World
With Jesus we overcome the devil and this world. Remember that the most powerful weapon to defeat and overcome the devil is the blood of Jesus that is the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever (Hebrews 13:8). Revelation 12:11 says And they (christians) overcame him (the devil) by the blood of the Lamb (Jesus), and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death. Every day fight the good fight of faith, asking the angels to cover you with the blood of Jesus after they bind the devil and send him to the pit of hell. James 4:7 promises Submit yourselves therefore to God; Resist the devil and he will flee from you (notice that with Jesus we don't run from the devil; instead the devil flees from us). Proverbs 28:1 says The wicked flee when no man pursueth; but the righteous are bold as a lion.
John told us at 1 John 4:4 Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them (the devil and the world); because greater is He (Jesus) that is in you, than he (the devil) that is in the world. Jesus told us at Luke 10:19 Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy; and nothing shall by any means hurt you. Notwithstanding in this rejoice not, that the spirits are subject unto you, but rather rejoice, because your names are written in heaven. Remember Paul told us at Romans 8:37 Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him (Jesus) that loved us. In other words with Jesus we will conquer and overcome this troubled world with its tribulation, distress, persecution, famine, nakedness, peril, and sword.
How To Overcome The World
Don't Be A Friend Of This World; Instead Live For Jesus Daily
The next way to overcome the world is don't be a friend of this world; Instead live for Jesus daily. James 4:4 says Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? Whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God. 1 John 2:15 says Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life is not of the Father, but is of the world. And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof; but he that doeth the will of God abideth forever.
Friends the world and christians are opposites. Christians are not citizens of this world; Christians are pilgrims and strangers on the earth according to Hebrews 11:13 with their citizenship in heaven. Philippians 3:20 says For our conversation (defined as citizenship) is in heaven, from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ. Like Jesus, christians tell the world from John 8:23 Ye are from beneath, I am from above; ye are of this world; I am not of this world.
By faith according Ephesians 2:6 Jesus hath raised christians up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus. Saved folk can sing This world is not my home; I'm just a passing through; My treasures are laid up somewhere beyond the blue; The angels beckon me from heaven's open door; And I can't feel at home in this world any more. Remember you can't have one foot in the world and the other foot with Jesus. Matthew 6:24 says No man can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other; or else he will hold to the one and despise the other; Ye cannot serve God and mammon. In other words there is no dual citizenship with Jesus and the world.
How To Overcome The World
Like The Jews, Choose To Serve The Lamb Jesus Instead Of The World (Egypt)
Like the Jews, choose to serve the Lamb Jesus instead of the world (Egypt defined as double straits or double trouble from the world). Remember you can't have one foot in Canaan's promised land with Jesus and the other foot in Egypt with the world. After God used the blood of the Lamb Jesus to save the Jews in Egypt, God took the Jews out of Egypt that is a type of the troubled world. Like the Jews, after anyone gets saved by the blood of Jesus, God takes them out of Egypt and this troubled world.
God said that there is a difference between Egypt (the world) and Israel. Exodus 11:7 says But against any of the children of Israel shall not a dog move his tongue, against man or beast; that ye may know how that the Lord doth put a difference between the Egyptians and Israel. Like the Jews, after salvation with Jesus, there is a difference between the world and the christians. God says for christians to come out from the world and be ye separate. 2 Corinthians 6:17 says Wherefore come out from among them and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing, and I will receive you. In other words, Whom God saves, God separates. Like Moses, Brother Bob says to anyone reading this Exodus 32:26 Who is on the Lord's side? Let him come unto Jesus and leave this troubled world.
Joshua spoke about choosing Jesus instead of this troubled world at Joshua 24:15 that says And if it seem evil unto you to serve the Lord, choose you this day whom ye will serve; Whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell; but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord. Like Elijah, Brother Bob says 1 Kings 18:21 How long halt ye between two opinions? If the Lord be God, follow Him; but if Baal (a type of the world), then follow him. Let's all obey Romans 12:1 that says I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service; And be not conformed to this world; but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect will of God.
Rewards For Overcomers With Jesus
Listed At Revelation Chapters Two And Three
There are rewards for overcomers with Jesus listed at Revelation Chapters Two and Three. Anyone that hears, reads, and keeps the book of Revelation will get blessed; Revelation 1:3 says Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein; for the time is at hand. There are rewards for overcomers from the 7 churches in the book of Revelation (Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamos, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and Laodicea).
The first reward for overcomers is listed at Revelation 2:7 that says To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God. In other words, saved christians will be rewarded to eat of the tree of life and live forever with eternal life stated at Genesis 3:22. The second reward for overcomers is listed at Revelation 2:11 that says He that overcometh shall not be hurt of the second death. The second death is being cast into the lake of fire to be tormented forever. In other words, if you are saved with Jesus, you are not going to the lake of fire.
The third reward for overcomers is listed at Revelation 2:17 that says 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. The hidden manna is in the ark of the Lord in the most holy place. Saved christians now have access to this hidden manna because when Jesus died on the cross, the veil that denied access to the hidden manna in the most holy place was rent. Now christians can enter the most holy place and eat of the hidden manna that is the bread of life Jesus. In other words christians will be blessed and feed on Jesus for eternity.
When christians receive their white stone, Jesus will tell them that they are not guilty and washed white as snow by the blood of Jesus. No charges for sins will be remembered for christians. Christians will rejoice in heaven saying John 8:36 If the Son (Jesus) therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed. All christians will proclaim Romans 8:33 Who shall lay anything to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth. Finally all christians will get a new name like the great men of the bible (Abram's name was changed to Abraham, Simon's name was changed to Peter, Saul's name was changed to Paul, and Jacob's name was changed to Israel).
The fourth reward for overcomers is listed at Revelation 2:26 that says And he that overcometh and keepeth my works until the end, to him will I give power over the nations. And he shall rule them with a rod of iron, as the vessels of a potter shall they be broken to shivers; even as I received of my Father; And I will give him the morning star. Christians will receive this fourth reward to rule and reign over the nations as kings and priests with Jesus during the thousand year millenium on this earth. Revelation 1:6 tells us that Jesus has made us kings and priests unto God and His Father, to Him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen. According to Revelation 22:16, the bright morning star christians receive is Jesus. Note that the KJV bible at Isaiah 14:12 correctly calls the devil the son of the morning (not the morning star erroneously stated by the corrupt NIV bible version).
The fifth reward for overcomers is listed at Revelation 3:5 that says 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. How comforting that because christians overcome with Jesus, they will not have their names blotted out of the book of life and not be cast into the lake of fire at the great white throne judgment. The white raiment that will clothe christians is white fine linen that is the righteousness of the saints. Revelation 19:8 says And to her (the bride church) was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white, for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints.
The sixth reward for overcomers is listed at Revelation 3:12 that says 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. In other words, christians will be identified with Jesus and be pillars in the temple of my God with God's name, new Jerusalem's name, and Jesus' new name. What a joy it will be to learn Jesus' new name.
The seventh reward for overcomers is listed at Revelation 3:21 that says 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. How encouraging that with Jesus christians are royalty according to Revelation 1:6 and kings and priests ruling and reigning with Jesus forever. To Him (Jesus) be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.
The eighth reward for overcomers is listed at Revelation 21:7 that says He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son. Christians inherit this overcoming reward as joint heirs with Jesus stated at Romans 8:17 that says And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with Him, that we may be also glorified together.
I pray in Jesus name that this bible study about how to overcome the world blesses multitudes all over this earth with great joy, peace, and strength. Feel free to email Brother Bob anytime at rz9tlm@gmail.com or write to Brother Bob at 2233 Pinetree Lane, Apt. N., Reynoldsburg, Ohio 43068. (614) 604-7133. Till we all meet again soon to lift up our Lord Jesus, everyone have a blessed day in Jesus name.
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