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have overcome the world.” You’ll never find a verse like this,
“He always leads you in your triumph.” You don’t have a triumph,
or a victory. Only He does. One of the biggest mistakes
Christians make, is to seek a deliverance of their own. “Lord,
give me victory.” He’ll never answer that prayer. He’ll never give
you, victory.

Why should He give you victory through a prayer? When Christ
purchased victory, with the price of His blood! He’ll only give
Jesus victory. It’s victory in Him, and you are in Him. So, you
have His victory. Don’t seek one of your own. He’ll never give
you His Son, and something else called power. He only gives you
His Son. If you have His Son, you have power. You have
patience, and love, and wisdom, righteousness and sanctification,
and every spiritual blessing in Him. That’s God’s viewpoint. God
looks at your riches, but His eye is on His Beloved.

Christians don’t see themselves in Christ. I don’t see myself in
Christ. It would be a tremendous thing if we could see things as
God sees them. What a difference it would make in our life. We
look at these graces as if they were bestowed upon us. Then,
when we can’t access them, we say, “Oh, poor me. God never
speaks to me. I don’t have victory over this habit. I’m so poor
that I don’t have talents like other people. I don’t have
opportunities, or ministry and I don’t have power.”

You haven’t seen yourself, as God sees you. God sees His Son,
and He has merited all the wealth in the universe. I can’t fly, but
an airplane flies. If I’m in the plane, I fly. I don’t have anything.
Christ has everything. I’m in Christ. I have everything!

Before I leave these fourteen verses I want to show you how He
brings this marvelous sentence to a climax. Read again verse 13
& 14,

“In Him you also after listening to the message of truth, the
gospel of your salvation, having also believed, you were