The greatest danger you and I
face in this world, the greatest danger you and I
face in this world is the world itself. The love of the world. That's
true of you who are the youngest in our midst and you who are
the oldest. That's true of the pastor, and
that's true of you mothers, and you fathers, and you sons and
daughters. The greatest danger to our souls
is the world, the love of the world particularly. Nothing so
chokes the influence of the word of God upon our lives as the
love of the world. the cares of this world. Legitimate cares. You have the
care of taking care of that family. Legitimate cares. The care of
educating and providing for your family, for your sons and daughters.
The care of providing for your wives. The care of taking care
of your household. The cares of the world have a
way of choking out the influence of the Word of God and choking
it out with such smooth efficacy that you convince yourself nothing
is happening. You convince yourself the world
doesn't really have a grip on you. Our Lord Jesus warned us,
beware of the care of the world and the deceitfulness of riches. That's the reason the Spirit
of God inspired John to give us this admonition in 1 John
chapter 2 and verse 15. Would God, he would emblazon
it upon our hearts with a finger of fire that we not forget it. Love not the world. not the world. When our daughter was a little
girl, I was a big, strapping, strong fella. And I sometimes
would get those little bottles, had a little ring in them, and
had bubbles. And we'd blow bubbles. And she
would just be delighted with the bubbles. And she'd chase
the bubbles. And sometimes when the bubble
would burst, she'd almost start to cry. But even as a little
girl, she knew better than to cry over a bursted bubble. Now,
if you should see me as a grown man with a jar of bubbles and
out in the parking lot here playing with bubbles, please have me
committed somewhere. Please have me committed somewhere.
But if you should see me crying because the bubbles burst, it's
too late. I should have been committed
a long time ago. Will you hear me, children of God? Hear me,
immortal souls. This world is just a bubble. And it will soon burst. It's
just a bubble. Your money, your farms, your
houses, your influence, your fame, your families, everything here is just temporary. One of the old writers, I believe
it was Samuel Rutherford, said don't Build your house or your
nest in any of the trees of this dark forest. They're all marked
for burning Everything here is just temporary Paul said we look
not at the things which are seen for the things which are not
seen For the things which are seen are temporal the things
which are not seen. They're eternal Everything here
is soon going to perish Don't get too attached to it. Are we
God's children? Are we risen together with Christ? Do we live in hope of eternal
glory? Then let us count this world
a dead thing to us. Let us count this world a dead
thing to us. Live no longer for the world. Set your heart on things above. Live, oh my soul, God give me
grace to live above the influence of this pile of rubbish that
soon must burn. Live to do the will of God and
seek the glory of God. and serve the kingdom of God
and be a benefit to the people of God. Quit seeking those things
for which unbelieving men and women live. Our Savior said,
after all these things, do the Gentiles seek. That's what your
neighbors live for. That's what the fellow next door
to you, he spends all his life grabbing this stuff. Don't set
your heart on these things. Don't set your heart on where
am I going to live, what am I going to eat. Your father knows what
you have need of. Set your heart on things above. Seek first the kingdom of God
and his righteousness. Seek that to the exclusion of
all else. Set your heart on nothing but
Christ. Love not the world. If any man loved the world, the
love of the father is not in him. The religious world talks
a great deal about worldliness. And they talk about worldliness
by describing folks going to dances or watching television
or watching certain programs on television or going to the
picture show or wearing certain kinds of clothes or that stuff. That's not worldliness. That's
not world. You can separate yourself from
all the things that men call worldliness and be the most worldly
minded person in the world. You can be horribly worldly minded.
Worldliness is the love of this world. It is the love of this
world. It's craving this world. It's setting your heart on this
world. Be sure, oh my soul, that you
don't love the world. If any man love the world, the
love of the Father is not in it. Are you a worldly person? Am I? One who lives for the world? If so, we will perish with the
world. Are you a godly person? Am I? One who lives by the grace of
God for the glory of God. If so, you will live for eternity
in the bliss of heaven's glory with the Son of God. Now with
that as the background, I want you to look at our text tonight.
First John chapter 5 and verse 4. First John chapter 5 and verse
4. John has urged us to live for
Christ. He's urged us to put the world
out of our hearts. And then he assures us that obedience
to our God and Savior is not grievous. Doing the will of God
is not grievous. Following Christ is not a burdensome
thing. It's not a heavy load to bear,
but rather a delightful thing. And here's the reason. For whatsoever
is born of God overcometh the world. And this is the victory
that overcometh the world, even our faith. And my subject tonight
is the victory, the victory. But what is this world that we
must overcome? Didn't God himself create the
world in six days? Didn't he declare as he looked
on this world that he had made, behold, it is very good? He did indeed. But then sin entered
into the world. Men came under the power of the
world, and now the world is all mankind who remain under the
power of sin and are the enemies of God. The world as it's used
in scripture, as John uses it here, refers to the whole fallen
human race and all the influence and all the direction and all
the wisdom and all the delight and all the pursuit of all fallen
men. He says, this is the victory
that overcomes the world, even our faith. The world is the corrupt
mass of fallen humanity out of which God has taken a people,
a people he chose, a people he's redeemed, a people he's called
by his grace. people quickened by his spirit
whose business it is to overcome the world. Hold your hands here
in our text because I want you to look at this very carefully
with me and turn to Romans chapter 12. Romans chapter 12. Paul's talking about the grace
of God. He's come to the conclusion of this tremendous section of
the book of Romans where it speaks of God's sovereignty and God's
grace, how God Loved Jacob and hated Esau how God has vessels
of mercy who was afore prepared to glory how God has has cast
off Israel that it might gather his elect among scattered among
the Gentiles and all Israel be saved and he declares God's great
wisdom in this and God's great mercy in accomplishing this now
watch what he says as a result Romans 12 I beseech you therefore
brethren by the mercies of God by the mercies of God, that you
present your bodies a living sacrifice, present your bodies
with Jesus Christ, a living sacrifice. You collectively present your
bodies with one faith in Jesus Christ, the Lord, a living sacrifice,
holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. I
once heard Brother Maurice Montgomery refer to this text of scripture.
He said that means that's the only thing that makes any sense.
That's the only thing that makes any sense. He was exactly right.
The only thing that makes any sense is for you and I to live
for God. The only thing that makes any
sense is for us to devote ourselves to God, our Savior. The only
thing that makes any sense is for us to live in utter consecration
to God and be not conformed to this world. Be not conformed
to this world. The world is in league with hell. I don't mean part of the world.
I don't mean the politicians. I don't mean the rulers of the
world. I mean the whole shooting match. The whole world. The whole world. Your husband if he doesn't know
God. Your wife if she doesn't know God. Your mother and your
father if they don't know God. Your sons and your daughters
if they don't know God. The whole world is in league
with hell. The whole world. No exceptions.
What do you mean, pastor? Since the fall of our father
Adam in the garden and our fall in him, the world has always
been It is now and it will always be until Christ comes again in
league with hell. Listen to how the scripture describes
the world. You can look at these later.
I took time to look them all up this morning carefully. The
world's wisdom, God says, is foolishness. The world's wisdom is foolishness.
Why do we crave it? The world's wisdom is foolishness.
Not part of the world's wisdom. All the world's wisdom is foolishness. The world's morality, in 1 Corinthians
4.13, God calls filth. The world's morality is filth.
Listen to the world talk about morality. Just flip on any news
channel and listen to the lessons the news folks give about morality.
Listen to them. In moral consciousness, in the
defense of morality, The world slaughters babies in the womb
and protects animals walking across the street. That's the
world's morality. The world's morality slaughters
innocent babies and defends sodomy. That's the world's morality.
The world's morality God calls filth. The world's course, the
course of the whole world, the course of the whole world. Are
you listening to me, son? the course of the world. Don't
make this world your companion. The course of the world is rebellion
to God. It's rebellion to God. It's rebellion
to God. You choose that for your companions,
you choose for your companion rebellion to God. The world's
religion is its corruption and its sorrow. Paul speaks of repentance,
and he says, speaks of godless sorrow, and then he speaks of
the sorrow of the world. Isn't that something? He calls
the world's repentance, the world's religion, it's sorrow. Perhaps,
perhaps because the religion of the world brings man into
endless sorrow. and it produces nothing but sorrow
along the way. Because the religion of the world
is all hypocrisy, it is all deceit, it is all corruption. The religion
of the world is full of pretense. Brother Mark was talking to me
today when he was out here earlier, and you hear the talk. Folks come up with religious
cliches. How are you today? Better than
I ought to be. Better than I deserve. I get so tired of hearing religious
cliches. Oh, I'm so much better than I
deserve to be. Praise the Lord. Bless Jesus. I'm blessed. And it's all fake. It's as fake as a $3 bill. Religion
without Christ gives no peace, gives no satisfaction, gives
no rest to your soul, gives no peace and comfort in your heart.
It's sorrow. The world's light is all darkness. The whole world, we're told in
Revelation 12 9, is deceived by Satan. The whole world. He is the prince of darkness.
Turned loose by God on the whole world to deceive the nations.
That's his business, deceiving the nations. The whole world is corruption and rebellion to
God and to be its friend. To be its friend. The friend
of its people. The friend of its religion. The
friend of its philosophy is to be the enemy of God. Are you
saying, Pastor, we ought to be mean to people in the world?
Of course not. Of course not. But if you choose for your companions,
if you choose for your companions, if you choose for your companions,
folks who hate God, you choose for your companions, Folks who
despise God, choose for your companions. Folks who despise
the gospel of God's grace, you choose for your companions. Enemies
to God, and you're the enemy of God. The friendship of the
world is to be an enemy to God. I didn't say that, James did.
You can read it for yourself in 4th chapter of James. God's
chosen people. His redeemed called ones, God's
saints, God's elect, all who are born of God, all who trust
Christ, find that the world, the power of evil, wars against
them, and they must war against it. Not occasionally, all the
time. All the time. But in our text,
God the Holy Ghost assures us that though the battle may be
long, the conquest is sure and it is constant. Look at 1 John
chapter 5 verse 4. The battle may be long, but the conquest is certain and
it is constant. For whatsoever is born of God
overcometh the world. And this is the victory that
overcometh the world, even our faith. We read in this book of
a man by the name of Demas, a man by the name of Demas, who having
loved this present world, Forsook the gospel forsook the faith
and forsook the cause of Christ because he loved the world He
loved the world. I Have no idea what it was that
got him Have no idea whether it's fame or money popularity
Desire for things greed lasciviousness fornication Vile lust I have
no idea what got him But he loved the world. And to get the world,
he said, goodbye, Paul. I don't need you. I don't need
God. I don't need Christ. I don't need the faith. I don't
need it. This is what I want. There was
another man we read of in this book who believed God, a man
by the name of Noah. And you know what the book says
about him? He condemned the world because
he believed God. He condemned the world. He set
in judgment over the world. He said the world is going to
hell and this is what the world has chosen and thus it shall
rightly be because he believed God. Whatsoever is born of God overcometh
the world, and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even
our faith. Let me give you three things.
I'll give them to you briefly. I hope God will stick them in
your heart. First, our text speaks of a great
birth. Whatsoever is born of God. Oh, John's talking about the
heaven-born soul, the child of God, the new creature, the creation
of grace, that new man created in you in righteousness and in
true holiness. Oh, my soul, what a birth we
have. You and I who are gods are born
of God. Now, notice we are born of God. It's a passive verb. It's not
something, an activity in which we contribute something. That
which is born of God. The new birth is God's work in
us. It is not something we do for
God. It's not something to which we make a contribution. It's
not something we put ourselves in a favorable condition to obtain.
The new birth is God's gift. We are born of God. Oh, what
a gift. Born of God. People like to brag on their
heritage. Perhaps we've lived through the
bulk of this tracing the family tree thing. I don't know. I haven't
heard much about it lately. But folks, oh, we've got such a rich
heritage. Southern folks are especially
proud of their heritage. We like to trace our family roots. Oh, we've got such a heritage.
Children of God, we're born of God. We're born of God. Do you understand
that, David? We're born of God. It doesn't
matter who your earthly mother or father was. It doesn't matter
whether you were born in nobility or born in poverty. It doesn't
matter whether you were born in a church house or born in
a brothel. It doesn't matter. It doesn't
matter. Oh, no, those things are insignificant. We're born
of God. Born of God. Mamas and daddies
want their babies to marry well. And we're thankful. We're thankful
when they do. Let me tell you what it is to
marry well. To marry well is to marry somebody born of God. Born of God. Born of God. To be born of God is to be born
from above. The word born again, not only
does it mean born another time, it means born from above. Born
from heaven. To be born of God is to be born
of the Spirit. Born spiritually. So that we
have now a nature we didn't have before. We're born and now we
have the mind of Christ, the nature of Christ, partakers of
the divine nature, new creatures in Christ Jesus. Born of God. This is a matter that's altogether
of grace. Turn to John chapter 3. John chapter 3. This is our Lord's interview
with Nicodemus. When Nicodemus came to him and asked him, how
can a man be born again? What must I do to inherit the
kingdom of God? And the Lord Jesus said to him,
verse three, verily, verily, I say unto thee, except a man
be born again, born the second time, born from above, born spiritually,
he cannot see the kingdom of God. He cannot see the kingdom
of God. That means, Bill Rodley, nobody
you know can understand anything about the things of God until
he's born again. Bless you to your eyes for they
see. Your neighbor can't see. He's not born again. Your son
or daughter can't see. They're not born again. Your
mother or father can't see. They're not born again. Your
husband or wife can't see. They're not born again. Until
a man's born again, he can't see. Or he don't. He has no understanding
of the kingdom of God. Nicodemus saith unto him, How
can a man be born when he's old? Came here the second time into
his mother's womb and be born? Now that's just like a real well-educated,
smart, religious idiot. I mean, Nicodemus was a brilliant
fellow. He wasn't a dummy. He was well-educated. He wasn't a moron. He didn't
not go to school. He went to the best of schools.
He was religious as all get out. But the Lord Jesus said something
to him. He couldn't see. And you want men to help men
respond when they can't see? Like folks who can't see? He
said, well, do you mean to tell me a fellow can crawl back up
in his mother's womb and be born a second time? He was being ridiculous and he
knew it, but he was speaking the best he knew to speak because
he was dumb as a box of rocks, spiritually. He couldn't see.
And the Lord Jesus was far more patient than you or I would have
been. He answered and said, and I say unto thee, verily, verily,
I say unto thee, except man be born of water and of the Spirit,
born of the natural water and born of the Spirit, or born again
by the word of God and by the Spirit of God. Either way works. Except man be born of water and
the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. You can't
get there by baptism. You can't get there by proxy.
You can't get there by mama and daddy putting you there. You
got to be born again by the spirit of God. Read on verse six. That which is born of the flesh
is flesh. That was born of the flesh is
flesh. Would do God. I can get hold
of every preacher in the world who professes to believe the
gospel of God's free grace. Just, just those. They're just
those. I wish I could get through here
for just a minute. And they are willing to make compromise. Well,
if we do this, we get more people. If we do that, we get more people.
Boy, if you just do this, you get more people. This works.
I can't tell you how many times I've been, Brother Don, y'all
do this, this works. This works. I don't give a flip
what works. Do you? If it's flesh, it's flesh. Get folks to make a profession
of faith, fill the church building up, tear down these walls, build
bigger, build bigger barns for more flesh. Born of flesh is
just flesh. It's just wood, hay, and stubble.
That's all you get. That's all you get. But what do you do?
Wait for God to work. Because that's what you're born
of, spirit, spirit. Marvel not that I said unto thee, you must
be born again. The wind bloweth where it listeth.
And thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it
cometh, and whither it goeth. So is every one that is born
of the Spirit. All right, here's a great birth, born of God. Secondly,
here's a great victory. Whatsoever is born of God over
cometh the world. This is an ongoing victory. What
a statement. Over cometh. Over cometh. It's in the present tense. An
ongoing victory implies an ongoing conflict, an ongoing struggle,
an ongoing warfare. So long as we are in the world,
we must endure the assaults of the world, collectively and individually. God's saints in this world are
under constant assault by the world. Now, when I say that,
Please understand me. Don't go whining around about
it. That's all right. That's all right. No need to
go whining around about it. I hear folks, preachers and folks
who listen to them whining all the time. Oh, we're so bad. Things
are so bad. Things are so bad. Things are
just exactly as God intends them to be. Just exactly as God intends
them to be. Here and everywhere all the time. That ain't too bad. That ain't
too bad. Exactly as God has purposed them
to be. And whatever God sends, we'll
not just take it, we'll rejoice in it. Believers, God's people,
God's church, constantly is assaulted by the world seeking to impose
on us its customs. We're accused of trying to force
other folks to follow our rules and impose on other folks our
customs. No. No, I don't try to get folks
who don't know God to act like they do. I don't try to get folks
who have no knowledge of the things of God to act like they
do. That's not so. But the world isn't satisfied
if you don't go along with its customs. Not satisfied. I'm satisfied. This whole thing
we have in our streets today and in our courts today, in our
political systems today, not just in this country, in all
the Western world, I don't know about other parts of the world,
but in all the Western world, where sodomy is becoming a matter
of pressed law, pressed law, because they're not satisfied
till you submit to their customs, till you approve of their customs.
the world constantly trying to compel us to compromise with
its religion, to compromise with Babylon, constantly telling us
we need to get along. If you say things dogmatically,
that's bigotry. You can't do that. You can't
do that. I've been told that all my life,
been told that all my life. Accusing faithfulness of bigotry,
pretending to approve of our faith, the world perhaps assaults
even more strongly. John Bunyan speaks of the subtlety
with which the world assaults God's church. Under the name
of Madam Bubble, he says, Madam Bubble has a begotten smile. And she strokes you just right.
It makes you feel good. And acts as if she approves of
you. Perhaps that's more dangerous than the assaults. And the world
entices us to follow its ways, its greed and its filth. And
that's the way of the world. Hypocrisy, greed, and filth. Hypocrisy, greed, and filth. Hypocrisy, greed, and filth. I don't know why, but I was a
little shocked yesterday. I had a call, and a couple had
gone to speak to a pastor. Couple just shacked up together.
I happen to know them and The wife the wife was shocked I'm telling you too. She was
shocked When they got done they started out door. She said who
does he think he is to say this is wrong? I've never heard tell
us such a thing wrong to live in fornication. Why? Why? How dares a man say such a thing? Because the world is determined,
determined to have us bow to its customs. And when we refuse
to do so, they consider that bigotry. While we live in the
world, children of God, we must constantly look upon the world
as a thing dead to us, and a thing to which we're dead. Paul put
it this way, by the cross of Christ in which I glory, I am
crucified to the world and the world to me. That means the world
should have no influence on my mind. That means the world should
matter no more to me than I matter to the world. The world should matter no more
to me than I matter to the world. And yet we're to be constantly
assaulting the world. It is our business to conquer
the world. That's our business. Our Lord Jesus said upon this
rock, I'll build my church and the gates of hell shall not prevail
against it. The gates of hell shall not prevail
against it. I said to the folks over in Lexington
a couple of weeks ago at their conference, preaching Gates are
not weapons of offense The only time you'll see a fellow going
to battle with a gate is when you've got nothing else to do
battle with Gates are not weapons of offense. Gates are weapons
of defense. And the Lord Jesus demands that
you and I march against the gates of hell all the days of our lives
with the gospel of His grace. Doing what? To conquer the world. To conquer the world. To conquer
the minds and hearts of chosen, redeemed sinners all over the
world. The weapons of our warfare are
not carnal but spiritual, casting down imaginations and every high
thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God and bringing
into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ. You
mean, Brother Don, we're to be enemies to the world? Oh, no,
no, no, no, no, no. Friends to the world. Friends
to the world. Not friends of the world, friends
to the world. Conquering it by the gospel.
Not by the sword like the Islamics. Not by the ballot box and the
politicians and legislation like religious legalists. No, no,
no. By the gospel. By the gospel. Preach the gospel
of God's grace. And watch God conquer the hearts
of men. Watch God conquer the hearts
of men. You can legislate religion. And you can legislate moral uprightness. And you can legislate all kinds
of stuff. But you can't legislate godliness. You can't legislate righteousness. You can't legislate folks into
the kingdom of God. Oh, but if God is pleased to
conquer the heart by his grace. Oh, when God's pleased to conquer
the heart by his grace, he takes Rahab the harlot and makes her
a mother in Israel. He takes the blaspheming self-righteous
Saul of Tarsus and makes an apostle and messenger of his grace. He takes a vile wretch of a man
and makes him a messenger in his kingdom. A vile wretch of
a woman and makes her a servant to do the bidding of God in his
kingdom. God's grace conquers the hearts
of men. All right. Here's a great birth
born of God. Here's a great victory. Over
cometh the world. Over cometh the world. What? Overcomes the world? But I don't see that happening.
I don't see that happening. Well, let's see what we're going
to believe. Larry Brown, do you believe what you see in the newspaper
and see around you to believe what God says in His Word? He
says, this who is born of God over cometh the world. It's in
the present tense, implying a continuous thing all the time. Well, if
you read that like it reads in our English text, I wonder how
it reads in the Greek. Same way. Exactly the same way. Well, that would imply that there's
never a time when God's church, when those who believe God, never
a time when they lose a battle. Never a time when they lose ground. Never a time when they give up
the hill. Never a time they even lose a
skirmish. But this one who is born of God,
all who are born of God, continually, all the time, overcome the world. That's been so since the day
God called Eve and Adam in the garden, and it's continuing to
this day. Those who are born of God constantly
conquer. What does the book say? We are
more than conquerors through him that loved us, more than
conquerors. But brother, God, things are
so bad in our day. Read about previous days, you
know, I'm almost convinced. Folks lived in delusion in days
gone by like they do now. They delude themselves with the
idea that somehow we have things so much worse than other folks
did. Oh, look how it was in those great days. Do you really think
puritanical legislation was better than what we've got now? Do you
really think it was? Do you really think that Folks
who would come by your house and have you pillared because
you walked too far on Sunday Was better than the laws we got
now. Do you really think so? Do you really think that? Having
trials for witches Was better than the laws we got now. Do
you really think so? Oh No, no, no. No, we live in
a day just exactly like the day in which lot lived many women
eat and drink and marry and and are given in marriage. Just like
Noah lived in. Just like our Lord lived in.
They eat and drink and marry and are given in marriage. What
does that mean? That means everybody walking on God's earth outside
Christ lives like a brute beast. He lives chewing grass till he
dies and that's all. Always has and always will. but God's people overcome all
the time. God's people overcome the world
all the time. Now, what's the gift? Here's
a great gift. For whatsoever is born of God
overcometh the world, and this is the victory that overcometh
the world, even our faith. You're all familiar with Nike,
aren't you? I remember when I was a boy,
First pair of really good tennis shoes I got. I remember them
well, they were red. PF Flyers. You could buy them
for $2 at Woolworths. Man, I thought I had something.
And then I found out about Nikes when I got grown. Nike tennis
shoes. Wow, that was something else
in those days. Just something else. You're familiar
with the swoosh logo. I have no idea where the swoosh
logo came from, but I know where the word Nike came from. That's
it right there. The victory. In fact, the word
Nike is only used one time in this exact form in all the Word
of God. Right there it is. This is the
Nike and the Greek is pronounced Nike spelled N I K E. This is the victory that overcometh
the world. What's that? How is it that we
overcome the world? We believe God. How on earth
could a man like Abraham leave earth a cowardice and make his
pilgrimage through this world and walk in the promise of God,
possessing the heritage of God, though he never set foot in the
land where God promised to plant his people. He believed God.
How can Noah condemn the world? He believed God. How is it that
Enoch was translated from earth to heaven? He believed God. How is it that he pleased God?
He believed God. And faith honoring God is honored
of God. Now read on. Look at this again.
Notice the language as John uses it here. This is the victory,
the means of conquest. This is the conquering that conquers
the world, that overcometh the world, even our faith. The word
overcometh here is not exactly the same as it is in the first
part of the verse. There the word implies a continual
overcoming. Here the word is in the aorist
and it speaks of something done in the past with no end in its
result, with no finality, with no conclusion. This, we have,
this is the victory by which we have overcome, are overcoming
and shall overcome the world. We have overcome the world with
Jesus Christ our Lord. And he said, now is the judgment
of this world, representatively in union with him. And when God
gives man faith in Christ, When God gives you faith in Christ
and you're enabled by God's Spirit to believe on the Son of God. You've overcome the world. All
the power of hell falls at your feet. Satan is bound and you've
overcome the world. You've overcome all the influence. of all the generations of your
family's DNA all the way back to Adam that caused you to act
like hell all the time. You've overcome it now. You've
overcome it. You've overcome the world, all
the influence of the philosophy of your education, all the influence
of the corruption around you. You've overcome it because God's
given you faith. faith in Christ. You find yourself
believing God and willingly laying hold on the Son of God. And you
shall overcome the world until the last breath you draw on this
earth. Went up to see Brother Bob today,
and I suspect I could be wrong. I suspect God will soon take
him. I pray He will. He's had a tough time. And I was looking at that man
and thinking about this message. And I said to myself, soon you're
going to overcome the world. The God of peace shall crush
Satan under your feet shortly, and every trial every temptation,
every heartache, every assault of the world, every burden you
bear, every cross you carry, every weight that presses you
down. You who believe God shall overcome the world for you're
overcoming it and you shall overcome it. God's church is overcoming
and God's church shall overcome. What's going to happen with everything
else? Why? God's gonna put it all under
our feet. He'll put it all under our feet. And we don't have to
do anything to make it happen. We don't have to do anything
to make it happen, except believe God. Believe God. Believe in
God, walk with him, and you're more than conquerors through
him that loved you and gave himself for you. Now listen to me. Would you overcome the world? Would you overcome all the evil
that's ruined your life? All the evil that would take
you to hell, would you overcome it? Believe on the Lord Jesus
and go home now, conquering and to conquer forever. Amen.