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I want to choose one word that the Holy Spirit chooses to describe
this victory. I want to use the word “world”. How much is included
in the word “world”? If we could have victory over the world, we
would have victory indeed! I would like to show you the Lord’s
provision for us for victory over the world.

The Bible uses the word “world” in several different ways. I’ll
mention a couple of them and then we’ll look at the summary. John
15:18&19, “If the world hates you, you know that it has hated Me
before it hated you. If you were of the world, the world would love
its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of
the world, therefore the world hates you.” This is the world of
sinners. We live in a world of people that don’t believe in the Lord;
ungodly people who persecute Christians. Is there victory over that?
We’re strangers here. We’re pilgrims here but we have to live in a
world of sinners.

There is another use of the word for “world” in Mark 4:18&19, “And
others are the ones on whom seed was sown among the thorns; these
are the ones who have heard the word, and the worries of the world,
and the deceitfulness of riches, and the desire for other things enter
in and choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.” This is
Solomon’s word, “All is vanity in this world.” It has no value.
Abraham was a millionaire but he never owned anything except that
he bought a grave. That’s all this world has to offer. There is
nothing else. There’s victory over the things of this world.

Then there is James 4:4, “You adulteresses, do you not know that
friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore
whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy
of God.” This is the world’s ideas and the world’s methods. This
is humanism and the values of the world and what they think is
important.

Let me give you a summary and it’s in 1 John 2:15-17, “Do not love
the world, nor the things in the world. If anyone loves the world,
the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the