The Victorious Christian Life of Overcomers -Rev 3 Pt 5e  Flesh © 2023 WF Cobb Truthbase.net  DailyTruthbase.blogspot  

Rev 3:21 To who overcomes I will grant to sit with Me on My throne, as I also overcame and sat down with My Father on His throne 22 who has an ear, let them hear what the Spirit says to the churches.

I. There is a war between God (who wants what's best for us: Victory>Glory)

    and satan (who wants what's worst for us: defeat>enslavement) {& we're losing)

Following God wholeheartedly leads to conquest and peace (e.g. Caleb).

Failing to fully follow God is actually following satan into captivity and regret (Israel). 

A. We must use the weapons and methods God provides to achieve spiritual victory (in our souls 1st)

1Jn 4:4 You are of God..have overcome them cz He who is in you is greater than he who in the world

2:14 cz you are strong Heb 11:34 the Word of God abides in you and you have overcome pft  wicked one 

1Thess 5:23  Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you completely; and may your whole spirit, soul, and body be preserved blameless at The Coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. WHY?

      Eph 3:10

B. How do you know you're living the Victorious Christian Life?

There is so much preached about how you can't live the victorious Christian life on your own, and that you must  trust in God to do it, that born-again  “believers”  ignore the 613 NT commands which God gave us to guide us to our responsibility and freedom Jn 8:32. 

These ignorant defeated believers keep resting/waiting for God to give them the victory without stepping into the water, that they reframe staying on the shore or in the boat 

as the “Normal Christian Life” and forfeit their victory to satan (our adversary). 

We sing “Trust and Obey”, and Jesus weeps. 

Bonus: Why did Peter go swimming? We always have all grace we need to do His will -2Cor 9:8 he fell cz he failed to believe that what God commanded He/he was able to do?  Mt 8&14 little faith

Rm 4:19 not being weak in faith, he pondered not 20 He staggered not at the promise of God thru unbelief; but was strong in faith*, giving glory to God; 21 being fully persuaded that, what He had promised, He was able also to perform/do. 22 Thus it was imputed to him for righteousness. *Heb 11:34

What ever happened to “take up the whole armor that you may be able to stand in the evil day” (temptation to self-centered living)

and then “having done all, stand”{in the unity the HS has created -Eph 6}? 

Or 2Pt 1:5 “giving all diligence ADD to your faith: virtue...self-control*...endurance, godliness..love

(*Acts 24:25 Righteousness, Self-control judgment to come,  & Gal 5:21 no inherit Kgdm)

2Pt 1:8 neither barren nor fruitful {glorify God -Jn 15} vs 9 blind, forgot rcvd cleansed  

{1Pt 1:22 purified souls by obeying the Truth} 

      1:10 never fall, 11 abundant entrance to Kingdom

Eph 4:20 But you have not so learned Christ, 

21 if indeed you have heard Him and have been taught by Him, as the TRUTH is in Jesus: 

22 that you put off, re: your former conduct, the old man 

        which grows corrupt acc to the deceitful lusts,  

23 and be renewed in the spirit of your mind,

24  and that you put on the new man 

which was created acc to God, in true righteousness and holiness.

25 Therefore, putting away lying, Let each one of you speak truth with his neighbor,

for we are members of one another... 

But before you put on  the “breastplate of righteousness” and “the armor of Light”,  

you need to put off/cast off the works of darkness

Rm 13:11...love {neighbor as self v9} fulfills the law 

12 And do this, knowing...now it is high time 

to awake out of sleep; for now our salvation is nearer than when we first believed. 

12 The night is far spent, the day is at hand. 

Therefore let us cast off the works of darkness, 

and let us put on on the armor of Light.

3 Let us walk/behave properly, as in the day, not in revelry/parties and drunkenness, 

not in w-caprice and lust, not in strife and envy.

14  But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to fulfill its lusts.

Before you can be transformed by the renewing of your mind, you need to submit as a daily sacrifice, and put off the old Rm 12:1-2a. Early believers where taught to put off, and put on. 

Modern born-again “believers” are taught to trust in their initial confession of faith, and stand/sit more comfortably in their corrupting sin which is rotting their flesh, and ruining their future.         pres/eternal  

Obedience isn't optional, it's optimal; Disobedience is deadly and demonic (Gen 3 &4 -Cain).

Dt 6:17 You shall diligently keep the commandments of the LORD your God, 

His testimonies, and His statutes which He has commanded you. 

18 And you shall do what is RIGHT and good in the sight of the LORD, that it may be well with you, and that you may go in and possess the good land of which the LORD swore to your fathers 

24 And the LORD commanded us to observe all these statutes, to fear the LORD our God, 

for our good always, that He might preserve us alive, as it is this day. 

25 Then it will be RIGHTEOUSNESS for us, 

if we are careful to observe all these commandments before the LORD our God,

as He has commanded us.

II. Overcomers obtain blessings/glory; Succumbers suffer loss (temporal and eternal -Rm 2)  

        Slumberers/Sluggards

Rev 3:I Sardis: know your works, that you have a name that you are alive, but you are dead.

2 Be watchful, strengthen what remains about to die, I've not found your works PERFECT before God

3 Remember1...received* & heard; hold fast and REPENT...if you will not wake/heed, I will come... 

    impv       pft *aggressive acceptance -WH