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that in Me you may have peace. In the world you have tribulation,
but take courage; I have overcome the world.”

“Take courage. I have overcome the world.” Let me break it down.
“I have overcome the lust of the flesh. I have overcome the lust of
the yes. I have overcome the pride of life.” Let me say it another
way. Jesus claimed that He has overcome everything that stands
between you and the will of God. Do you realize what a provision
that is? There is nothing between you and the will of God; nothing
in heaven, nothing on the earth, and nothing under the earth.
Nothing can hinder you from doing the will of God. If that is not
victory, I don’t know what is, that God has already overcome
everything between me and the will of God.

Notice that He didn’t say, “Be of good cheer, you shall overcome.”
He said, “I have overcome.” Christians always want to be
overcomers but He is the overcomer. This is the most glorious news
that can ever reach the ear of a burdened Christian. I’m in Christ
and all that is in Him belongs to me. I just want to have that verse
read again. John 16:33, “These things I have spoken to you, that in
Me you may have peace. In the world you have tribulation, but take
courage; I have overcome the world.” In the world you’ll have
tribulation. You are in the world. You are also in Christ. In Christ,
He has overcome the world. Once again, God doesn’t give His Son
and something called “victory”.

Romans 6:8-11, “Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that
we shall also live with Him, knowing that Christ, having been raised
from the dead, is never to die again; death no longer is master over
Him.” He is dead to sin and alive to God. I want to be dead to sin
and alive to God but He is not going to allow me to be dead to sin
and alive to God because He will not give His glory to another. He
is dead to sin and alive to God and I’m in Him. He’s dead to sin and
alive to God and you are in Him.

I can’t fly. The airplane flies. I’m in the airplane; I fly. Everything
that is in Christ is yours. Everything that is in Christ belongs to me.