1 Chron 29:10-13 (KJV)

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1 The Victory of God 1 Chronicles 29:10-13 (Temple ) 10 Wherefore David blessed the LORD before all the congregation: and David said, Blessed be thou, LORD God of Israel our father, for ever and ever. 11 Thine, O LORD, is the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the victory, and the majesty: for all that is in the heaven and in the earth is thine; thine is the kingdom, O LORD, and thou art exalted as head above all. 12 Both riches and honour come of thee, and thou reignest over all; and in thine hand is power and might; and in thine hand it is to make great, and to give strength unto all. 13 Now therefore, our God, we thank thee, and praise thy glorious name. 1 Chron 29:10-13 (KJV) 1 Not unto us, O LORD, not unto us, but unto thy name give glory, for thy mercy, and for thy truth's sake. 2 Wherefore should the heathen say, Where is now their God? Psalms 115:1-2 (KJV) Introduction: a. Because God is great, sovereign, powerful, and glorious He is victorious! God s power and will cannot be withstood by any force at any time. God created all and is over all.

2 Psalms 24:8 Who is this King of glory? The LORD strong and mighty, the LORD mighty in battle. 1. Satan defied God in heaven and was defeated. Isaiah 14:13-15 For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: (14) I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High. (15) Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit. (Satan and all of his devils hves no power against the Almighty! One day, they will eternally reside in a place prepared for them called hell.) 2. Governments have defied God and lie in ruins. Exodus 15:3-6 The LORD is a man of war: the LORD is his name. (4) Pharaoh's chariots and his host hath he cast into the sea: his chosen captains also are drowned in the Red sea. (5) The depths have covered them: they sank into the bottom as a stone. (6) Thy right hand, O LORD, is become glorious in power: thy right hand, O LORD, hath dashed in pieces the enemy. (With many governments and nations, God showed His longsuffering and mercy but, ultimately when they continued to defey Him, the Almighty took these nations down. America will not be the first to withstand His justice.) Psalms 9:17 The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God. 3. Men have tried to defy God and have not prevailed. Proverbs 1:24-29 Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded; (25) But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof: (26) I

3 also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh; (27) When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you. (28) Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me: (29) For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD: (The Almighty is longsuffering with mankind and His mercy abounds but, one day, those who have defied Him will be cast into a Lake of Fire and there abide for an eternity.) b. I thank the Lord that I am His and He is mine! He who can do all things is there with us and for us. Hebrews 13:5 Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee. Romans 8:31 What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us? 1 John 4:4 Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world. Psalms 118:6 The LORD is on my side; I will not fear: what can man do unto me? c. We are victorious already in Jesus Christ. 1 John 5:4 For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith. d. There are so many ways that we have the victory in this world but I will just name a few.

4 1. Through Jesus Christ, we are victorious in salvation. John 5:24 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life. (I want to say once more that if the Lord never did anything else for you and me, His payment for our sin along with an eternal salvation that is free of charge is enough! The Lord sought me when I was not looking for Him, loved me when I was not loveable, helped me when I could not help myself, and saved my unrighteous soul so that I can live with Him forever in heaven!) 27 My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me: 28 And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand. 29 My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand. 30 I and my Father are one. John 10:27-30 (KJV) 1 There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. 2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death. 3 For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: 4 That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. Romans 8:1-4 (KJV)

5 1. Through Jesus Christ, we are victorious in salvation 2. Through Jesus Christ, we are victorious over sin. Romans 6:14 For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace. (Sin becomes the master. Sinners not only cannot cease from sin, they love sin and are comfortable living in it. When salvation comes, sin no longer has dominion over the child of God. No addiction or habit that cannot be stopped.) 12 Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof. 13 Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God. Romans 6:12-13 (KJV) 21 And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins. Matt 1:21 (KJV) 1. Through Jesus Christ, we are victorious in salvation 2. Through Jesus Christ, we are victorious over sin 3. Through Jesus Christ, we are victorious over self. 1 Corinthians 9:27 But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway. (Our flesh is strong, rotten to the core, and always actively pulling us from the Lord. We can control our flesh as one aspect of the fruit of the Spirit is temperance. Thanks be unto God who gives us the victory over this temporal, sinful flesh.)

6 temperance - self-restraint in the face of temptation or desire 12 Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh. 13 For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live. Romans 8:12-13 (KJV) 5 Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry: Col 3:5 (KJV) 1. Through Jesus Christ, we are victorious in salvation 2. Through Jesus Christ, we are victorious over sin 3. Through Jesus Christ, we are victorious over self 4. Through Jesus Christ, we are victorious over Satan. James 4:7 Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. (Satan is a formidable foe! He is called a dragon, likened unto a roaring lion because he is a destroyer! He is powerful and the god of this world. We can defeat him here in this life and, thank the Lord, will judge him in the afterlife. The Bible says that we will judge angels. We cannot defeat him in the power of self but can in the power of God.) 28 Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. 29 Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and

7 lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. 30 For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light. Matt 11:28-30 (KJV) 29 Then he called for a light, and sprang in, and came trembling, and fell down before Paul and Silas, 30 And brought them out, and said, Sirs, what must I do to be saved? 31 And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house. Acts 16:29-31 (KJV) 1. Through Jesus Christ, we are victorious in salvation 2. Through Jesus Christ, we are victorious over sin 3. Through Jesus Christ, we are victorious over self 4. Through Jesus Christ, we are victorious over Satan 5. Through Jesus Christ, we are victorious over our circumstances. Philippians 4:11-13 Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content. (12) I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound: every where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need. (13) I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me. (Often, in dire circumstances, we feel that the Lord does not care. The world seems to gain the advantage and we often get the short end of the stick. We do not always get either what we want or what we think that we should get but are victorious through it all. God grace is sufficient, His peace overwhelming, and strength availiable.)

8 Isaiah 43:1-2 But now thus saith the LORD that created thee, O Jacob, and he that formed thee, O Israel, Fear not: for I have redeemed thee, I have called thee by thy name; thou art mine. (2) When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee: when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned; neither shall the flame kindle upon thee. Romans 8:35-37 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? (36) As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. (37) Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. 1. Through Jesus Christ, we are victorious in salvation 2. Through Jesus Christ, we are victorious over sin 3. Through Jesus Christ, we are victorious over self 4. Through Jesus Christ, we are victorious over Satan 5. Through Jesus Christ, we are victorious over our circumstances 6. Through Jesus Christ, we are victorious over death. 1 Corinthians 15:51-57 Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, (52) In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. (53) For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. (54) So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory. (55) O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? (56) The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law. (57) But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory

9 through our Lord Jesus Christ. (Death to the child of God is gain. Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. God s people die well!) 8 (For the redemption of their soul is precious, and it ceaseth for ever:) 9 That he should still live for ever, and not see corruption. 10 For he seeth that wise men die, likewise the fool and the brutish person perish, and leave their wealth to others. 11 Their inward thought is, that their houses shall continue for ever, and their dwelling places to all generations; they call their lands after their own names. 12 Nevertheless man being in honour abideth not: he is like the beasts that perish. 13 This their way is their folly: yet their posterity approve their sayings. Selah. 14 Like sheep they are laid in the grave; death shall feed on them; and the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning; and their beauty shall consume in the grave from their dwelling. 15 But God will redeem my soul from the power of the grave: for he shall receive me. Selah. Psalms 49:8-15 (KJV) 1. Through Jesus Christ, we are victorious in salvation 2. Through Jesus Christ, we are victorious over sin 3. Through Jesus Christ, we are victorious over self 4. Through Jesus Christ, we are victorious over Satan 5. Through Jesus Christ, we are victorious over our circumstances

10 6. Through Jesus Christ, we are victorious over death. 7. Through Jesus Christ, we are victorious over hell. Revelation 20:6 Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years. (What a blessed promise. I have no fear of death. It is gone for me and God sees us as already on the other side, seated in heavenly places in Christ Jesus!) 7 He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son. 8 But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death. Rev 21:7-8 (KJV)