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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 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