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JESUS CHRIST HAS OVERCOME
TUESDAY, AUGUST 29
John16:28-33

John 16:33

 

“But be of good cheer;

I have overcome the world.”

 

JESUS CHRIST HAS OVERCOME
 
No one wants to be defeated in battles but to win triumphantly. Christians who want to live a godly and holy life in faith and obedience to the Lord will have battles to fight. It is not a battle against human beings, but it is a spiritual warfare against our sinful nature, selfishness, and sins, against Satan and his attacks, temptations, accusations, and deception, against the apostasy and unbiblical doctrines, against superstition, ungodly trends and sinful attractions of the world (Eph 6:12).
 
No one is qualified to defeat Satan except the Lord Jesus. The victory of the coming Messiah or Christ was predicted from the beginning right after Adam and Eve were defeated by Satan, “And I will put enmity between thee (Satan) and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed (Christ), it (Christ) shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel” (Gen 3:15). Satan tempted our Lord Jesus but our Lord defeated him through God’s Word (Matt 4). The Bible says, “For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil” (1 John 3:8). Our Lord is the Conqueror through His death and resurrection, saying “I am he that liveth, and was dead; and behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death” (Rev 1:18). Our Lord Jesus has overcome Satan and the world (John 14:30; 16:33; Col 2:15; Heb 2:14). Although Satan, apostasy, sins, ungodliness, immorality, worldliness are rampant with the majority in the world in these last days, in the end when our Lord comes back again, “These shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them: for he is Lord of lords and King of kings: and they that are with him are called, and chosen, and faithful” (Rev 17:14). Then you and I should not be discouraged even though we are in the minority provided we are faithfully walking after our Lord in His narrow way and living a victorious life in Christ.
 
THOUGHT: Thank God that our Lord Jesus Christ is the Conqueror.
PRAYER: Father, I thank Thee that I may have a victorious life in Thee alone.

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