Sermon
More Than A Conqueror
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Open your Bibles to 2 Timothy chapter 3 and meet me at verse 1.
2 Timothy 3 chapter mention
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2 Timothy chapter 3, meet me at verse 1.
2 Timothy 3 chapter mention
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Paul tells us in this passage of scriptures, but know this, that in the last
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days perilous times will come.
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For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money.
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Boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents.
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Unthankful, unholy, unloving, unforgiving, slanderers without self-control,
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brutal, despisers of good.
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Verse 4 tells us, traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than
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lovers of God. Look at verse 5, having a form of godliness.
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They try to look like they're godly, but denying its power, and from such people turn away.
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I thought this was interesting when I read this passage of Scripture because
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it is indicative of the time that we're living in right now.
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Paul tells us, know this, that in the last days, perilous times will come.
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That is harsh, savage, difficult times, very dangerous and painful times,
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grievous times, times that are
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hard to deal with times that
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are perilous these times will come in the passion translation I'm gonna read
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it from the passion translation it says but you need to be aware that in the
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final days the culture of society will become extremely fierce.
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How many of you know that we are living in the last days? The culture of society
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will become extremely fierce.
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In Matthew chapter 24, turn there with me. Matthew chapter 24.
Matthew 24 chapter mention Matthew 24 chapter mention
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Let's look at verse 3.
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It says, now as he, Jesus, sat on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to
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him privately, saying, tell us when these things will be.
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And what will be the sign of your coming and the end of the age?
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Pause right there for a second.
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Notice the disciples pulled Jesus aside and had a conversation with him privately,
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asking him what will be the sign, what will be the indicators of your coming,
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and what would be the end of the age?
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Now, I want to talk to you real quick for you Bible scholars.
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I'm going to go a little deep here for you. The end of the age is known as dispensation.
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Somebody say dispensation.
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Dispensation simply means the end of an era or end of a time period. The end of the age.
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Now, dispensation also could mean the last days.
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The last days. In scripture, there are seven dispensations.
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All right. The first one is called the dispensation of innocence.
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This time frame was before Adam, then Adam, Eve, and the garden.
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The dispensation of innocence.
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The second one is the dispensation of conscience.
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The dispensation of conscience, this lasted from the garden to the flood.
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The third one is the dispensation of human government.
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The dispensation of human government, this lasts post-flood to Abraham.
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The fourth one is the dispensation of promise.
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The dispensation of promise, this lasts from Abraham to Moses.
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Then we see the dispensation of law.
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The dispensation of law, this lasts from Moses to the cross.
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Moses brought the law and at that time they were under the dispensation of the law.
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We are under this one. Number six is the dispensation of grace.
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The dispensation of grace. This lasts from Pentecost to today.
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The dispensation of grace.
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People wonder, well, why is God not treating people the same as we see in the
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Old Covenant? Well, they were under a different dispensation.
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We're under a dispensation of grace to where God is giving you time to repent,
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to change, to come to him and transform into his image.
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He's giving us the luxury of time to do it, and that is called grace.
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We can't earn it. We don't deserve it.
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But he's given it to us anyway, the dispensation of grace.
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You'll hear a lot of people say in this dispensation of grace,
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well, people can get away with anything. I can't believe that person is acting
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like that, and they can just simply get away with anything. God needs to do
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this, and God needs to do that.
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Understand the times that we're in.
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We're in this dispensation of grace. He's not going to do that because he has
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given you time to repent.
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Now, I do need to tell you that at the end of this dispensation is the rapture.
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Hallelujah. We're going to get wrapped up right on out of here. Praise the Lord.
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And from that, from the rapture, there will be then times of judgment.
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So we are in the dispensation of grace, but it will conclude with judgment.
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So all of the things that we see that should happen in terms of, hey,
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that person keeps sinning, sinning, sinning, sinning, sinning,
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and it looks like there's grace, grace, grace, and where sin abound,
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grace much more abounds, that will come to an end.
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And then there'll be judgment. But thank God we're going to be gone in the rapture.
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Now, if you want to stay through the rapture, that's your prerogative.
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I'm up on out of here, praise God.
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I'm not hanging through the rapture or through the tribulation,
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which would be the time of judgment.
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And then the seventh dispensation is the millennial reign.
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The millennial reign, the thousand year reign. Well, Jesus will come back to the earth.
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Let me say this real quick. I don't have time to get into it in today's message,
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but there is a difference between the rapture and the second coming.
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The rapture is we are going to be raptured, taken out of the earth.
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The believers that have confessed Jesus as Lord and Savior will be taken out
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of the earth, and then we'll go through judgment, tribulation, etc.
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Then Jesus will come back to rule and reign for a thousand years.
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We're going to come back with him to rule and reign for a thousand years.
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The devil will be bound and there will be a lot of joy, a lot of peace, a lot of celebration.
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Right back here on the earth, there'll be a new heaven and a new earth.
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That's the dispensation of the millennial reign. But currently we are under
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the dispensation of what?
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Say it like you mean it. Grace. We're under dispensation of grace.
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And the disciples were asking him in verse 3, they said, what will be the sign
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of your coming and the end of the dispensation of grace?
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The end of this age. And Jesus answered in verse 4, said to them,
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take heed that no one deceives you.
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I don't know if you know this, but there is a lot of deception going on right now.
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Take heed that no one deceives you, for many will come in my name saying,
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I am the Christ, and will deceive many.
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And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars. How many of you hear of wars and
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rumors of wars right now?
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Watch this. See that you are not troubled. I want to pause there for a second.
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You're going to hear of things, but I want you to see that you are not troubled by this.
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In the end, times are going to be dangerous, painful, perilous,
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harsh, fierce times to live in, but see that you're not troubled.
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John chapter 14, he tells us, let not your heart be troubled.
John 14 chapter mention
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You're going to see these things, but see that you are not troubled.
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For all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.
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Verse 7, for nation will rise against nation. We hear that right now.
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And kingdom against kingdom. And there will be famines. There are famines happening right now.
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Pestilence, that's happening right now. And earthquakes, that's happening right now in various places.
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Look at verse 8. All these things are just the beginning.
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It's just the beginning of sorrows.
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Just the beginning. We are just at the beginning of all these things taking place.
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Verse 9, then they will deliver you up to tribulation and kill you,
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and you will be hated by all nations for my name's sake. Notice, pause here.
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Some believers, some saints will be delivered up and killed.
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Are you ready to die for what you believe in?
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Are you ready to be a martyr for what you stand for?
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This is a question you have to ask yourself because at the end,
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some Christians will be killed, and are you ready to be hated by people?
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I've had to grow into this where I, maybe it's with experience or with age or just maturity.
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I've had to grow into I really don't care what people think about me.
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It took a minute to get there, but I'm there.
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I don't care. Now, obviously, I don't want to be rude and condescending and hateful and et cetera.
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I'm very compassionate towards, you know, if I've done you wrong and that sort of thing.
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But if you don't like me, you just don't like me. And guess what? I don't care.
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I don't care. I really don't. I'm not saying that because I'm up for preaching.
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I don't. I don't care. And it's time for you to get to that point.
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You just say it right now. I don't care if you don't like me.
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Say it again. I don't care if you don't like me.
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You're going to have to start practicing this because you're about to be hated.
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You're a Christian. We hate you. You love Jesus. We hate you.
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We don't like you. We don't want to be around you. Are you ready for that?
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And I know some of you are dealing with that even now with family members.
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When I go to other countries and talk to the Christians there,
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once they gave their life to Jesus, they can't even stay in their family.
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The family kicks them out.
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Literally boosts them out like we don't have anything to do with you because you are a believer.
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Are you ready to be hated because you are a believer?
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Verse 10, and then many will be offended.
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That means they're going to
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get mad and they're going to stop following Jesus. Many will be offended.
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Many will betray one another, get ready to be stabbed in the back and betrayed.
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And many will hate one another.
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Now, we're not talking about the world at this point. We're talking about believers hating one another.
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Then many false prophets will rise up and deceive many.
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And because lawlessness will abound, absolute chaos is going to occur in these
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last days at the end of the age.
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Lawlessness will abound. The love of many will grow cold. People will stop loving one another.
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But, somebody shout, but, say it like you mean it, but, he who endures to the
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end, that's me, shall be saved.
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Hallelujah. Somebody say, that's me. Now, he who endures means he who has active,
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energetic resistance to the end shall be saved.
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And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in all the world as a witness
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to all the nations and then the end will come.
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The end of the dispensation of grace will come after the gospel of this kingdom
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will be preached to all of the world and we're going to go through some things,
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in order for the gospel to be preached all over the world.
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Get ready, get ready, get ready. I wish I could tell you that everything is going to be all right.
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And I wish I could tell you it's going to get tough.
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It's going to be hard. We might cry sometime.
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We might lose a little hope sometime.
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But know this that we have him
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and he is in us and he is with us and we have the victory come on somebody say
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amen by the fact in john chapter 16 turn there john chapter 16 verse 33 jesus
John 16 chapter mention John 16:33
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said these things i've spoken to you he's telling us these things that in me you may have peace.
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That's undisturbed composure, glory to God.
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That peace there is oneness with Him. In the world, you will have tribulation.
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There's going to be stress and pressure and affliction and disturbing things
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that take place and remarkable things that could seem to be unbelievable that
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takes place. Like, I can't believe that happened.
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You're going to experience that, but.
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Somebody shout, but. But. I mean, that means just forget what I just said.
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Let me give the example one more time of but. If my wife came to me and she's
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got a dress on and she says, Devon, do you like this dress?
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And I said, that dress looks great. But.
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Uh, she ain't heard nothing else besides that. She's waiting for what I'm going to say after the but.
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But, you know, it kind of makes you look a little round. Oh,
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I ain't wearing that dress no more.
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You know, nobody wants to be round. And so she's not going to wear the dress,
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even though I said it looked great.
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Whatever comes after the but is what she's going to listen to.
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Say amen if you know what I'm talking about.
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But be of good cheer. Be confident. Be expecting. Be full of rejoicing.
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Celebrate. why, I have overcome the world.
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You are in him. He is in you. You are an overcomer.
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Say amen to that. You are victorious.
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Don't let external circumstances dictate your internal condition.
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Let me say it again. Don't let external circumstances dictate your internal
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condition. You have peace with God.
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You have composure. You're undisturbed.
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And don't let external circumstances affect your internal condition.
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If you know what I'm talking about, say amen.
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Now, he says here that we're going to have to rejoice because Jesus has overcome the world.
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I am in him and he is in me. So if he's an overcomer, then I'm an overcomer.
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And so I have also overcome the world.
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First John, I believe, chapter five, verse four says this for those that are
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born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that overcomes the world, even our faith.
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We're going to have to believe God and we're overcomers. We're Victorians. We're champions.
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We are more than conquerors because greater is he that is in me than he that
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is in the world. Come on, somebody shout amen.
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Now, notice this. We're going to go through difficult times,
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but those difficult times are not going to be over us.
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We are going to be over it.
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We are not underneath the difficulty. We are overcomers. We are going to be above the difficulty.
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You're going to be on top of it. You're not going to be the tail.
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You're going to be the head.
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You're going to be envied by people. Why are you so disturbed and at peace and calm?
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And why do you seem to be victorious? Because I'm in him and he's in me.
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See, this is why it's important that we share the love of Christ with people.
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Because they're going to be going through difficulty.
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They're going to be going through a lot of pain and a lot of agony,
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but you need to let them know I am in him and he's in me and you can be in him
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too and you can be an overcomer as well. Say amen to that.
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Amen. And so listen, Romans chapter eight, go there. Romans chapter eight.
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Hallelujah. Let me calm down. Y'all getting something today.
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Hallelujah. Say I'm an overcomer.
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Glory to God. Look at verse 35. Romans 8.35, the Apostle Paul says here,
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who shall separate us from the love of Christ?
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Shall tribulation? No, we just read we're going to go through a lot of tribulation,
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but ain't going to separate us from his love.
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Glory to God. Or distress?
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Not at all. Or persecution?
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God loves you while you're getting persecuted. it or famine or nakedness or
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peril or the sword none of that's going to separate us look at verse 36,
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As it is written, for your sake we are killed all day long, for we are counted
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as sheep for the slaughter. Look at verse 37.
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Yet, that's another word for but. Glory to God.
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Yet, in all these things, we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.
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Say this, I am more than a conqueror.
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A conqueror is a champion. is victorious. It's someone who breaks barriers and takes territory.
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A conqueror is someone who is the one that's on top and going out and getting
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things and taking back what the enemy has stolen.
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A conqueror is not someone who barely wins.
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A conqueror is someone who dominates and defeats and destroys the opposition.
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The scripture says you are more than a conqueror. Say I'm more than a conqueror.
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Who knows what I'm talking about today?
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You will win decisively.
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Woo, glory to God. Decisive victory. Not just barely getting by.
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You're gonna be known as that. Don't mess with Devon.
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He gonna win decisively. Glory to God. Hallelujah.
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You are a champion, and you are more than a conqueror.
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I've had the privilege of talking to several champions. I might bring them on
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midweek booths if I can get them to come on.
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But they are UFC fighters. They held belts, and they're retired now,
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but they've been champions of their division.
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And I've had a chance to talk to them, and I've asked them about being a champion.
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And they've said to me that being the champion means I went and I took what someone else possessed,
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and I took it away from them and I took it and I conquered them and now I am
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at the top of the hill and now because I'm at the top of the hill others are
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going to try to come take what I possess but I'm not going to let them take it.
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Amen. You got to have the attitude I'm not going to let that thief come take what belongs to me.
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That thief is not going to have it. I'm going to keep my joy.
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I'm going to keep my peace. I'm going to keep my patience. I'm going to be kind. I'm going to prosper.
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I'm going to keep my health. You can't have my health. You can't take my money.
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I'm keeping it all because I'm more than a conqueror. Somebody say amen.
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I'm preaching better than you shouting up in here today. You got to get a hold
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of it and say I'm I'm not going to let him have it.
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He's not going to take it away from me because I'm more than a conqueror.
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See, a thief can't come try to steal my Lamborghini.
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You know why? Because I don't have one.
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So he can come to my house. Ain't no Lamborghini here, right?
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No, no, no. He's coming to get something you already possess.
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So you already are more than a conqueror and a thief coming to take it.
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If I could just take it away from you, if I could just get you with some external
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things that affect your internal capacity to believe God, then I've already taken it from you.
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If I can steal your joy, I've already taken it from you.
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A friend of mine reached out to me this week. This is a silly example,
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but I'm going to tell it anyway. He reached out to me this week,
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and someone asked him to borrow $100.
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And so he loaned $100. He said it wasn't much, just $100.
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I loaned it to him, but he said he'll pay me back Wednesday.
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And he hit me up on late Thursday. He said, hey, what should I do here?
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I said, well, this is a tough question.
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I said, you need to ask yourself, hey, is this a family member?
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Is this a friend? Who is this person you loaned to? He said,
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it's someone I didn't work for. I'm like, okay.
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So he provided some work, and that person asked for $100.
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I said, okay. All right, so here's what you do.
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You need to reach out to him. He said, hey, brother, you know,
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sister, it's past that due date.
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You know, I'm looking for that $100. And so he said, I'm going to reach out
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to him. And he reached out to him, and the guy didn't respond.
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And then he didn't respond. And the Lord said, tell him this.
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I said, don't let that $100 steal your joy.
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Don't let it steal your joy. And footnote, only be willing to loan what you're willing to give.
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So you have your own threshold. Am I willing to give this away?
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Then I'll loan it. But if you're not willing to give it, don't loan it, okay?
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And factor in, I'm talking to mature people today, right? Factor in,
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folks may not pay you back.
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Just factor it in so you don't get your joy stolen. You ain't going to knock
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on nobody's door, trying to see them at Chick-fil-A. What are you doing?
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I need my hundred dollars.
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Just, you know what? Just walk up to them and say, you know. You know.
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You know. Okay? Don't let it steal your joy, okay?
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I told this guy, I said, don't let it steal your joy today, man.
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And listen, keep your joy because the enemy is after your joy for $100.
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If he can get you in joy and get you fighting and acting crazy and now,
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you know, now you're sad all day long and you're upset all day and now all of
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a sudden you can't sleep at night and now you're taking it personally and et cetera,
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he has effectively stolen your joy.
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If he steals your joy, he can keep your goods. But don't let him steal your
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joy. Amen. Somebody shout amen.
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So you are more than a conqueror. Say, I'm more than a conqueror.
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Say it again. I'm more than a conqueror.
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How do you see yourself? As a champion or a loser?
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It's a question only you can answer. How do you see yourself?
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Do you see yourself as more than a conqueror? Or do you see yourself a loser?
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Do you see yourself as someone that's going to break barriers and take territory?
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Or do you see yourself as someone that always gets run over,
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always gets trampled, always gets taken full advantage of?
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How do you see yourself? In the last days, you and I are going to have to see
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ourselves as loved by God and more than conquerors.
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Whatever we go through, whatever comes our way, whatever hindrance,
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whatever obstacle, challenge that comes our way, we're going to have to see
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ourselves as more than a conqueror.
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You're going to have to see yourself as more than you think you are. Not because of you.
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Not because you look so good. Not because you dress so well.
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No, because he lives in you. and he's made you more than a conqueror.
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And so it's not pride, it's confidence.
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And what is the difference? Well,
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what's the difference? Pride is you're confident in your own ability.
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Confidence is I'm confident in his ability. And so he made you more,
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not just a conqueror, above and beyond superior.
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Any adversary that comes your way is no match for you.
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Matter of fact, and I believe it's 1 Corinthians 10, 13, I love it.
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He said, there's no temptation. That word temptation is test.
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There's no temptation that comes upon you that you are not able to overcome
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because God is faithful.
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That if it comes to you, that really means that you can get through it or God
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would not have ever allowed it to come your way.
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Somebody say amen to that.
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You, anything you go through, you can get through because you're more than a conqueror.
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Anything that comes your way, you just say, you know what? We can get through this.
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It may hurt. It may be painful. It may catch you off guard. But realize I can
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get through this because God would have never had it happen because I am more
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than a conqueror. I'm an overcomer.
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I'm a champion. And you need to start seeing yourself that way. Say, I'm a champion.
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Yeah. See yourself like that. Say, I got the belt.
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Yeah see yourself with the belt amen nobody
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listen when you got the belt everybody's gonna
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be envious of you and they're gonna want to take it and say no no no no no
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i'm the champion amen glory to
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god but you have to see yourself go to numbers 13
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you gotta see yourself as the champion and look at verse 27 numbers 13 27 this
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passage is about the spas from israel going into the land to scout out the land
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to see what they were coming against.
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Moses sent spies to see in the land that they were going to possess to take over.
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Verse 27, then they told him, they returned, and they said, we went to the land where you sent us.
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It truly flows with milk and honey, and this is its fruit, large fruit in the land.
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Nevertheless, the people who dwell in the land are strong.
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The cities are fortified and very large. Moreover, we saw the descendants of Anak there.
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The Amalekites dwell in the land of the south.
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The Hittites, the Jebusites, the Amorites dwell in the mountains.
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And the Canaanites dwell by the sea and along the banks of the Jordan.
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Then Caleb quieted the people before Moses. Hush, shh, hush, hush that fuck.
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Let's go up at once and take possession for we are, for we are well able to overcome it.
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We're well able to overcome it. Now look at the next verse, the very next verse.
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And they gave the, well, no, no, go back to 31.
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Numbers 13, 31. Then Caleb cried to people, that's 30. Where's my 31 in there?
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All right, let's take a look here. I'll go to my Bible. Hallelujah.
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Glory to God. Numbers 13. Here we go.
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And 31. But the men who had gone up with him, now they were with Caleb,
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said, we are not able to go up against the people for they are stronger than we.
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Now, the same men that went up with him said, we are not able.
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These folks was hanging with Joshua and Caleb.
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Joshua and Caleb said, we're well able. Same folks. We are not able because
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they are stronger than us.
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Interesting. Look at verse 32. And they gave the children of Israel a bad report
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of the land, which they had spied out, saying,
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the land through which we have gone as spies is a land that devours its inhabitants.
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And all the people whom we saw in it are men of great stature.
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They gave them a bad report.
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33. There we saw the giants, the descendants of Anak came from the giants. And watch this.
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And we were like grasshoppers in our own sight.
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And so we were in their sight.
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Now notice, one man says, we're well able to possess, to conquer,
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to take over, to break barriers, to possess it. We are more than well able.
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10 other people, because there were 12 spies, said, we're not able.
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We're weak. They're strong.
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We can't do it. And then they said something I thought was very critical.
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They start looking at the exterior.
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They started looking at their five physical senses.
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Follow me. They started looking at what they could see, touch, taste, hear, and smell.
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They started observing and they said, we are not able.
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And then they made this bold statement. We can't do it, guys.
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These guys are big. We can't do it.
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This is after Caleb hushed the fuss.
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They came back with this nonsense.
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And they said, we are like grasshoppers.
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So how did they see themselves? Like grasshoppers.
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And then they made another bold statement. And we're like grasshoppers in their sight, too.
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Now, how do they know that?
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They're spying out the land. They didn't walk up to somebody,
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hey, man, what y'all think about me? What you think about me?
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Oh, you think I'm a grasshopper? Yeah, I'm a grasshopper.
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None of that took place. They assumed that these people viewed them as grasshoppers.
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Why did they assume that? because they viewed themselves as grasshoppers.
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Stop viewing yourself as something low, little, insignificant,
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unimportant, and somebody that cannot make a difference.
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And start viewing yourself as a champion, an overcomer, more than a conqueror.
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Greater is he that's in you than he that's in the world. Why not you?
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Start asking the question, why not me? Well, so-and-so just got blessed with
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that. Your next question should be, why not me?
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I'm next. If they can get blessed with that, I can too. Glory to God. Amen.
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You're more than a conqueror. Yes, you didn't earn it.
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You don't deserve it. But it's God's grace and his favor to give it to you.
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It is his good pleasure to give you the kingdom. them.
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Stop viewing yourself as a grasshopper. You're not a grasshopper.
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You are more than a conqueror. Hallelujah.
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Glory to God. Glory to God. I'm not a grasshopper.
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Say that. Yeah. I'm not a grasshopper.
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Say it like you mean it. I'm not a grasshopper. You got to say it like you mean.
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You got to hear yourself say it.
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You got to hear your frame of thinking needs to hear your mouth say, I'm not a grasshopper.
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Some of y'all still ain't saying it. I'm not a grasshopper.
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This is how you change your wiring of your self-image.
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Your mind has to stop to listen to the words that are coming out of your mouth
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to hear what you're saying to change and rearrange the image that has been created
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in your life. Say, I'm not a grasshopper.
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What your mind now is saying, well, wait a minute.
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I'm not a grasshopper. We're not grasshoppers. I saw a grasshopper this morning,
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a little old grasshopper.
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It was sitting outside over there. I said, I'm not a grasshopper because I knew
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I was preaching this tonight. That's not me.
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I'm not a grasshopper. I'm more than a conqueror. And if I wanted to,
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I could have stomped that grasshopper because I'm more than a conqueror.
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Say I'm more than a conqueror.
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Say I'm strong in the Lord and in the power of his might.
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Greater is he that's in me than he that's in the world.
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Everything I have comes from him.
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Say it like you mean it. Amen. I'm not a grasshopper.
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And these people thought they were grasshoppers in their own sight and assumed
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they were grasshoppers in other people's sight.
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There are people that are looking at you like major champions.
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And you're looking at yourself like a grasshopper. There are people,
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there was this one particular time, I'll give you this example.
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I had gotten really sick.
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This was several, was about a decade ago now. I was losing a pound a day.
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I don't, we don't know. I was going back to the doctor. Doctors couldn't figure
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out what was going on with me.
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And I'm like, okay, I'm, I'm believing God. What is going on?
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We fighting. I'm fighting. I'm believing God, standing on his word.
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I'm laying down. I'm taking medicine. I'm doing everything I know to do in the
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natural, but I'm believing God.
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And I said, man, I'm going to defeat this thing. I'm more than a conqueror. I'm an overcomer.
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And I'm fighting, and I'm fighting, and I'm fighting, and I'm fighting.
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And at one point, the devil said, if you were to die, wouldn't nobody care?
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You heard that before, too. Nobody would miss you.
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If you were to leave, nobody would care. You know, hey, you got stuff set up
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for your family. If something were to happen to you, they'll be fine. Nobody would care.
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And I had a guy reach out to me. He had found out that I was really sick.
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And this guy is, I'm only saying this for the story. It doesn't matter,
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but I'm saying this for the story.
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This guy's a multimillionaire, owns a lot of property, land, businesses.
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He reached out to me and said, I heard you were sick. And I told him,
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yeah, you know, I'm getting strong and this, that, and the third.
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And then I overcame it and he reached back out to me. No, let me,
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sorry, that's not true He reached back out to me Because he had heard I was
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sick And at that point I had already overcame And he said, man,
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I heard you were sick What happened?
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I told him the story He said, if you would have died,
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He said, I don't know where my faith would have been if you would have died.
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This man's a big time Christian, multimillionaire, the kingdoms man.
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He's saying my faith would have been shook if you would have died.
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That tells me that other people see you greater than you see yourself.
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I couldn't just live for me and my family. That would have been fine.
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I was living now for this man's faith to rest, to continue to rest in the word, that the word is true.
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Amen. And I thought, oh, my gosh, I wasn't just fighting for me.
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I'm fighting for other people, too, to see that God can deliver you and rescue
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you and save you. And so are you.
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You're not just going to work and nobody and thinking nobody's paying attention
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to. You're not just walking around.
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People are watching you and they're thinking more highly of you than you're thinking of yourself.
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You just got to convince yourself what the word says. You are more than a conqueror.
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You break barriers and you take territory.
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Let me prophesy this over you. There are no limits to what God can do through
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you. take the limits off.
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Take the limits off. Take them off of your mind because God can get anything
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to you from anyone, anywhere, at any time. Hallelujah.
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Do you receive that? This is how you experience true life.