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God doesn’t give His Son and something else called “peace”.
He doesn’t give His Son and something else called “power”.
He doesn’t give Himself and something else called “joy”. If
you have Christ you have peace. If you have Christ you have
joy. If you have Christ you have power. If you run after joy,
peace or power you’ll find nothing. You’ll only get frustrated.
Let’s pray together and ask the Lord to focus our eyes on Christ.

Heavenly Father, we thank You that you have put Your Holy
Spirit in our life, a Bible Teacher living in our hearts, One who
searches the depths of God and reveals Him to us. Take the veil
away, Lord. Take the veil away. Enable us to see Christ in a
living way. In Jesus’ name. Amen

We are looking at the great foundations of our faith. What I’d
like to share now is the truth of victory in Jesus. What could be
more foundational than knowing how we can have victory in
Christ Jesus? Some people, when they think about victory, only
think of indwelling sin, “I’m a Christian and I still struggle with
sin. Is there victory over indwelling sin? Of course, the answer
is yes but there is victory that is larger than that.

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