Rom 12:21 Be not
overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.
Overcome evil.
Evil can be
overcome.
Evil would grab hold
of us and never let us go if we allow it.
Mat 6:13 And
lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the
kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.
Deliver us from
evil.
We don’t need to be
delivered from something that hasn't gotten ahold of us, right? In fact you
can't be delivered from something you aren’t afflicted with. You can only be
delivered from something you possess. If we need to be delivered from evil
there is a reason for it, right? Evil will attack us every single chance it
gets.
Joh 17:15 I
pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou
shouldest keep them from the evil.
Jesus is asking God,
the Father to keep us from evil.
Let's read that
entire prayer.
oh 17:1 These
words spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father, the hour
is come; glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify thee:
Joh 17:2 As
thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to
as many as thou hast given him.
Joh 17:3 And
this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus
Christ, whom thou hast sent.
Joh 17:4 I
have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me
to do.
Joh 17:5 And
now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had
with thee before the world was.
Joh 17:6 I
have manifested thy name unto the men which thou gavest me out of the world:
thine they were, and thou gavest them me; and they have kept thy word.
Joh 17:7 Now
they have known that all things whatsoever thou hast given me are of
thee.
Joh 17:8 For I
have given unto them the words which thou gavest me; and they have received
them, and have known surely that I came out from thee, and they have believed
that thou didst send me.
Joh 17:9 I
pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me;
for they are thine.
Joh 17:10 And
all mine are thine, and thine are mine; and I am glorified in them.
Joh 17:11 And
now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee.
Holy Father, keep through thine own name those whom thou hast given me, that
they may be one, as we are.
Joh 17:12
While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name: those that thou
gavest me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition; that
the scripture might be fulfilled.
Joh 17:13 And
now come I to thee; and these things I speak in the world, that they might have
my joy fulfilled in themselves.
Joh 17:14 I
have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not
of the world, even as I am not of the world.
Joh 17:15 I
pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou
shouldest keep them from the evil.
Joh 17:16 They
are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
Joh 17:17
Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.
Joh 17:18 As
thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the
world.
Joh 17:19 And
for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through
the truth.
Joh 17:20
Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me
through their word;
Joh 17:21 That
they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also
may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.
Joh 17:22 And
the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as
we are one:
Joh 17:23 I in
them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world
may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved
me.
Joh 17:24
Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am;
that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me: for thou lovedst me
before the foundation of the world.
Joh 17:25 O
righteous Father, the world hath not known thee: but I have known thee, and
these have known that thou hast sent me.
Joh 17:26 And
I have declared unto them thy name, and will declare it: that the love
wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them.
An amazing prayer.
Are we among those
Jesus is talking about? Are we His? Do we belong to Him? We need sanctification!
We need to be
delivered from evil.
Rom 12:21 Be not
overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.
Overcome evil with
good.
3Jn_1:11
Beloved, follow not that which is evil, but that which is good. He that doeth
good is of God: but he that doeth evil hath not seen God
Isa 1:16 Wash
you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes;
cease to do evil;
Isa 1:17 Learn
to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead
for the widow.
2Ti 3:10 But
thou hast fully known my doctrine, manner of life, purpose, faith,
longsuffering, charity, patience
1Co 13:4
Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not
itself, is not puffed up,
1Co 13:5 Doth
not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked,
thinketh no evil;
1Co 13:6
Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;
1Co 13:7
Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all
things.
1Co 13:8
Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail;
whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it
shall vanish away.
1Co 13:9 For
we know in part, and we prophesy in part.
1Co 13:10 But
when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done
away.
We know what it
means to overcome evil with good- we know what is good. Our Savior is good.
By the grace of God
may we overcome evil with good- with Christ!
More on this
tomorrow by the GRACE and WILL of our LORD and SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST. May His
mercy cover us always!
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