Overcoming.

 1Jn 5:4  For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith. 

1Jn 5:1  Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God: and every one that loveth him that begat loveth him also that is begotten of him.

We want to overcome the world, don't we? Because overcoming the world is overcoming all the evil of this world.  

Joh 8:23  And he said unto them, Ye are from beneath; I am from above: ye are of this world; I am not of this world. 

Jesus wasn't OF this world.

1Jn 4:4  Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world. 

1Jn 4:5  They are of the world: therefore speak they of the world, and the world heareth them. 

1Jn 4:6  We are of God: he that knoweth God heareth us; he that is not of God heareth not us. Hereby know we the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error. 

They are of the world,

We are not of the world.

We must overcome the world. 

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. 

We are NOT of the world.

Jesus is NOT of the world. 

We must be born of God to overcome the world.

We are born of God when we believe that Jesus is the Christ.

1Jn 4:2  Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God

Jesus Christ CAME IN THE FLESH. 

It's so important to recognize what FLESH Jesus came into our world with. 

People sometimes want to believe that Jesus had special flesh when He was born. What was the point at all of Jesus taking on our humanity if He was going to have special flesh? Why bother taking on our flesh, being born of a dirt created creature if His dirt created flesh was not exactly as ours? He could have simply appeared as He had in the past- in the fire with Daniel- eating with Abraham before Sodom and Gomorrah was destroyed. Unless the LORD was going to be born as a babe of a woman -taking from that woman the flesh she was created with, that her mother and father were created with all the way back to the beginning there was NO POINT in His being born as a babe at all! He took on OUR FLESH, He took from His mother all the nutrients He needed to grow in her womb. He was made of the same flesh we were made of, the same flesh. His flesh had the ability to die, just as our flesh. His flesh could bleed, just as our flesh. The part of Him that was from the Holy Spirit that blessed Jesus' mother with the part needed to join with the part of Mary to create the fetus is all a part of the MYSTERY of God.  God who could speak in to being man himself, could speak into existence the bit needed inside of Jesus' mother for the babe to begin and grow within her.  Did that part that was spoken into existence in Mary's womb make Jesus super human, with special flesh unable to be damaged? No. We know it did not, Jesus bled. Jesus' flesh could be cut, His flesh was not made of steel or any supernatural essence that made it impervious to all the things that could harm any human being. 

When the supernature essence merged with human flesh it created a being that was sinless, but sin able. 

When we are born we are born without sin. We DO NOT sin until we yield to temptation, and succumb to that temptation. We are born sinless, but sin able as well.  

The difference between us and our Savior is, ALL of US sin. ALL of Us yield to the temptations and sin! Jesus never yielded to temptation. 

If WE say Jesus had a special one-up on us to keep from sinning then HE could NOT have taken our place, and triumphed over sin. Satan would have accused Him instantly of overcoming under false pretenses. THINK ABOUT IT! REALLY THINK!

If we were in a contest with one of the contestants having special powers that we didn't have would that contest be fair? No! We'd cry foul instantly! 

Satan and our Savior are at war for humanity. Satan wants them as his because they chose his way. Our Savior wants them as his because He created them and know they were influenced wrongly by Satan. In order to save humanity, our Savior came to earth as a human being and proved that a human could live sinless, even if Satan was there to tempt Him.  If Jesus had used some special power that only He had to withstand the temptations of Satan, Satan would have laughed at what Jesus was doing, because it would only have proved that a God could withstand his temptations, not a human being. 

Jesus conquered sin and when He did that, He won the war for humanity. All who would choose, and choose constantly over their lifetime, HIS victory as theirs would be saved by HIM. 

Unlike Adam, Jesus was born with flesh corrupted by many, many years of sin. Adam and Eve were born with flesh never tainted by generations of sin. Jesus had to overcome the history of sinful flesh. Jesus felt every single temptation in forms equal to every temptation any in mankind can experience. Jesus had to overcome all those temptations weighed down by thousands of years of sin. Jesus had to SAVE US by being born with flesh that we are born with, and that is why He was born of a woman and not simply as a newly made from the dust of the ground, man. 

Jesus had to overcome what we are, the humans we are right now.

Jesus had to ENDURE the lure of temptation and He did without EVER succumbing to the lure.  So many people err when they think they've sinned by the lure of sinning. Satan is going to present temptation after temptation, lure after lure, to try and get us to succumb as often as he can. He presented many lures to Jesus, three notable ones when Jesus went to the wilderness after He was baptized. Jesus met each of those monumental temptations with the Word of God. Don't think for one moment that those were the only temptations Jesus had to endure. 

Heb_4:15  For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin.

IN ALL POINTS TEMPTED LIKE AS WE ARE.

We cannot forget this, or deny this! Jesus was TEMPTED LIKE AS WE ARE. And in order for Jesus to be tempted LIKE AS WE ARE He had to be like us! 

So, yes, all must confess that Jesus Christ came in the FLESH, our flesh!

1Jn 4:2  Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God

And we can OVERCOME the world because HE overcame this world!