01/01/14 THIRD OF THREE... BE AN OVERCOMER

01/01/14 THIRD OF THREE... BE AN OVERCOMER
(see previous two articles)

Here is the THIRD OF THREE articles that are designed to give you a good start for 2014.

The three articles are...
#1 IN 2014 BE RESOLVED TO...
#2 WHAT A BELIEVER KEEPS...
#3 CHRISTIANS ARE OVERCOMERS

#3 CHRISTIANS ARE OVERCOMERS...

The Basis For Overcoming Is Jesus:
John 16:33
(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.
(DLG note... see also: Ro. 8:37; Ga. 1:4)

We Overcome Evil With Good:
Romans 12:21
(21) Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.

We Overcome The Wicked One:
1 John 2:13-14
(13) I write unto you, fathers, because ye have known him that is from the beginning. I write unto you, young men, because ye have overcome the wicked one. I write unto you, little children, because ye have known the Father.
(14) I have written unto you, fathers, because ye have known him that is from the beginning. I have written unto you, young men, because ye are strong, and the word of God abideth in you, and ye have overcome the wicked one.

We Overcome Wicked Spirits And Wicked Men:
1 John 4:4
(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.

We Overcome The World:
1 John 5:4-5
(4) For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith.
(5) Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God?

SEVEN CHURCHES
We Overcome Sin And Temptation:
Revelation 2:7
(7) He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God.

We Overcome Persecution And Apostacy:
Revelation 2:11
(11) He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; He that overcometh shall not be hurt of the second death.

We Overcome Idolatry And Deception:
Revelation 2:17
(17) He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden manna, and will give him a white stone, and in the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth saving he that receiveth it.

We Overcome Compromise:
Revelation 2:26
(26) And he that overcometh, and keepeth my works unto the end, to him will I give power over the nations:

We Overcome Doctrinal And Practical Infidelity:
Revelation 3:5
(5) 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.

We Overcome Deception:
Revelation 3:12
(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 Overcome Worldliness:
Revelation 3:21
(21) 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.

TRIBULATION SAINTS
Revelation 12:11
(11) 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.

RESURRECTION SAINTS
Revelation 21:7
(7) He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son.