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To enjoy victory is to enjoy Jesus. Now, that’s the theology.
Let me give you an illustration from the Old Testament. I’ll set
it up with a verse from the New Testament, Colossians 1:13,
“For He delivered us from the domain of darkness, and
transferred us to the kingdom of His beloved Son.” There are
two kingdoms; the kingdom of God and the kingdom of the
devil. He said, “I translated you into the kingdom of God.” He
gives us a picture of that in Daniel 2.

Daniel 2 was that great dream of Nebuchadnezzar. Daniel 2:19,
22 & 23, “Then the mystery was revealed to Daniel in a night
vision. Then Daniel blessed the God of heaven… It is He who
reveals the profound and the hidden things; He knows what is
in the darkness, and the light dwells with Him. To Thee, O God
of my fathers, I give thanks and praise, for Thou hast given me
wisdom and power. Even now Thou hast made known to me
what we requested of Thee, for Thou hast made know to us the
king’s matter.”

Remember that Nebuchadnezzar said, “Tell me the dream and
the interpretation.” Daniel’s only hope was to call on the Lord
and he called on the Lord. Here is the dream. Daniel 2:31-36,
“You, O king, were looking and behold there was a single great
statue; that statue which was large and of extraordinary
splendor, was standing in front of you, and its appearance was
awesome. The head of that statue was made of fine gold, its
breast and its arms of silver, its belly and its thighs off bronze,
its legs of iron, its feet partly of iron and partly of clay. You
continued looking until a stone was cut out without hands, and
it struck the statue on its feet of iron and clay, and crushed them.
Then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver and the gold were
crushed all at the same time and became like chaff from the
summer threshing floors; and the wind carried them away so
that not a trace of them was found. But the stone that struck
them was found. But the stone that struck the statue became a
great mountain and filled the whole earth. This was the dream;
now we shall tell its interpretation before the king.”