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XII.
Christian Growth and Experience
Chapter 123
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Overcoming
1. WHAT overcomes the
world?
"For whatsoever is born of God
overcometh the world." 1 John 5:4, first part.
2. In whose victory may
the Christian ever rejoice and take courage?
"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." John 16:33.
3. Who is it that
overcomes?
"Who is he that overcometh the world,
but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son
of God?" 1 John 5:5.
4. Through what, then,
is the victory gained in the work of overcoming?
"And this is the victory that overcometh the
world, even our faith." Verse 4, last
part.
5. Through whom do we
obtain the victory?
"But thanks be to God, which giveth
us the victory through our Lord Jesus
Christ." 1 Cor. 15:57. "Nay, in all these
things we are more than conquerors through
Him that loved us." Rom. 8:37.
6. How did Christ
overcome when tempted?
By the Word of God. See Matt. 4:1-11.
7. How do the
Scriptures say the saints overcame the
enemy?
"And they overcame him by the blood of the
Lamb, and by the word of their testimony;
and they loved not their lives unto the death."
Rev. 12:11.
8. With what does the
apostle Paul tell us to overcome evil?
"Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil
with good."
Rom. 12:21.
9. Why was Jacob's name
changed to Israel?
"And he said, Thy name shall be
called no more Jacob, but Israel: for as a
prince hast thou power with God and with men,
and hast prevailed." Gen. 32:28.
EXCEEDING GREAT AND
PRECIOUS PROMISES
"To him that overcometh will I give to eat of
the tree of life, which is in the midst of the
paradise of God." Rev. 2:7.
"He that overcometh shall not be hurt of the
second death." Verse 11.
"To him that overcometh will I give to eat of
the hidden manna." Verse 17.
"He that overcometh, and keepeth My works unto
the end, to him will I give power over the
nations." Verse 26.
"He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed
in white raiment; and I will not blot out his
name out of the book of life, but I will confess
his name before My Father, and before His
angels." Rev. 3:5.
"Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the
temple of My God." Verse 12.
"To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with
Me in My throne, even as I also overcame, and am
set down with My Father in His throne." Verse
21.
"He that overcometh shall inherit all things;
and I will be his God, and he shall be My son."
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