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The Indispensable Principle

Once again as we come to prepare to look into the word of the
Lord I remind you of an indispensable principle; total reliance
on God’s Holy Spirit. The Bible is like the Lord Jesus. It’s both
human and divine. There’s a human side and there’s a divine
side. If we only see the human, we miss everything. Only God
can show us the divine side. Romans 8:32, “He who did not
spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how will He
not also with Him freely give us all things?”

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.