We overcome through Christ alone!

Joh_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.

Jesus overcame the world, praise God!

Rom_12:21  Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.

Overcome evil with good.  Not overcome evil with even more evil. Not overcome evil with man's perception of good. Not overcome evil with our ideas of good, but GOD'S good.

We are told-

Rom 12:19  Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord.

Rom 12:20  Therefore if thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink: for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head.

If our ENEMIES hunger we are to FEED them!

If our ENEMIES are thirsty we give them something to DRINK!

We are to be GOOD to our enemies, we are NOT to hurt our enemies in any way!

Yet we all too often believe we are justified in hurting our enemies because they hurt us.  Hurt and hurt a like, but that is NOT our SAVIOR'S way at all whatsoever!

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We must overcome evil with good and that good is our SAVIOR! He alone can overcome evil. Any good in us is HIS. If we overcome and evil it is by His power, His will.  We overcome through Christ and Christ alone.

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We must overcome through Christ

Rev 3:7  And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write; These things saith he that is holy, he that is true, he that hath the key of David, he that openeth, and no man shutteth; and shutteth, and no man openeth

Isaiah {22:22} And the key of the house of David will I lay upon his shoulder; so he shall open, and none shall shut; and he shall shut, and none shall open.

Jesus. Jesus alone holds the keys of all God's people. David is one of God's beloved - a representative of God's true people, the faithful. The key of the faithful is Jesus- faith in Jesus is the key- without faith it's impossible to please God. All of God's faithful had that special faith in God, that special belief.

There are many things one man can open and another close, it happens all the time. But when God opens something no man can close it save God. And what God closes, no man can open. God alone has the power of such magnitude, God alone. We can't doubt this. We've been given such a special gift from God- proof beyond doubt of His reality.  Some say there is no proof. Others say that bits and piece of discovered archeological treasure points to some of the reality of what is in the Bible. But we have skeptics that refuse to believe the Bible, and will keep refusing to believe unless they are given tangible proof- they don't want historic proof- but something they can touch. Faith isn't by touch,  faith is the substance of things hoped for- the evidence of things NOT seen.

History along with prophecy is proof, irrevocable proof of the Bible's validity and yet many people will not touch prophecy at all. God has the power of shutting and no one opening, and the power of opening and no one closing. God has this amazing power of shutting and then allowing something to be open when the appropriate time arrives. This power is God's and God's alone. Man doesn't have this power and yet throughout history we know that some men who claim to have power given to them by God and they have made rules, they have made their own laws that keep mankind from the truth in God. They claim to have this power of shutting and opening, and people that believe in them rather than in God allow them to believe they truly do have that power- when in truth they have none.

Rev 3:8  I know thy works: behold, I have set before thee an open door, and no man can shut it: for thou hast a little strength, and hast kept my word, and hast not denied my name.

He knows us our hearts, He knows the deeds of our heart which are our works. God sets before us a way to Salvation and no man can take the from us, not one. Compared to the wonders of God we are very weak creatures. Even with the smallest of strength we can be strong in the Lord if we keep His words, if we don't deny His name. We can't deny God, we can't deny our Salvation. If we deny the power of salvation in Jesus Christ then we have no right to salvation at all.  The open door the way to God is given to us- we don't have to create the door ourselves, we don't have to manufacture a way, that way is given to us- such a gift is beyond our true comprehension. No man can shut this way to Christ, as long as our Lord gives us time to seek Him before all human probation is over, that way to salvation exists.  We need this way because we could never have the strength to create a way, never! Our strength is nothing compared to God's, NOTHING. We need to keep God's word, we need to NEVER deny the name of our Savior!

Rev 3:9  Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie; behold, I will make them to come and worship before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee.

What are Jews but God's chosen people? God's chosen. Those who say they are God's chosen and aren't they will be accounted on Satan's side where all liars dwell. Satan is the father of lies and all his children liars with him, deceiving themselves and all they can deceive with lies.

Jesus will reign and all the liars will one day realize He is Lord of Lords, King of Kings, He is the Truth! And all those who cling to the truth through Him will stand on His side and in that day the liars and followers of Satan realize this they will be worshipping at the feet of Jesus realizing where true love is found.

Rev 3:10  Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth.

Rev 3:11  Behold, I come quickly: hold that fast which thou hast, that no man take thy crown.

Rev. 14:12 Here is the patience of the saints: here [are] they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.

The saints will have kept the word of God's patience. Faith! Faith in Jesus! Keeping the commandments of God! If we keep through Jesus we will be kept by Him from the temptations that come about all- trying that patience and trying to rip it from us.

Before all in the world are caught in the snares of satan, before there are none faithful left, Christ will come.

We have to hold fast! HOLD FAST! Keep believing, keep the faith so that we will have our crown of life in Christ. We can't let any man take our crown and yes, men will try. All that belong to satan will try to take that crown from us, to fill our minds, our hearts with deception, with lies, convincing us to lose faith. Our trust, our hope must be in Christ and Christ alone.

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.

We must overcome through Christ- if we overcome we will stand in the temple of God and be with Him and never leave Him. We will have the name of God upon us, the name of the city of God, new Jerusalem, a city that will come down from heaven. We will have the new name of Christ- a new life in Christ- we must listen! We must hear the Spirit!

May God bless and keep us in Him now and forever though satan would have us and use all in his power to keep us from God. By the mercy and grace of Christ alone we live.

Amen