WORLD OVERCOMER

WORLD OVERCOMER

“For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world—our faith.”

I John 5:4NKJV

I like this verse particularly because of how it puts things into perspective, first talking about being born of God. This statement needs to be made, God’s power and Faith only works in line with His word and Spirit. If you want to have this world overcoming type of Faith, you need to be born of God. Being Born of God means to be part of God’s family, by believing in His son as our Lord and Saviour and the Messiah that was sent to die and pay for our sins and also have the free gift of the Spirit of God as our teacher, guide and comforter. Being Born of God is the greatest privilege any man could have in this world and the one to come. You need to be part of God’s family. Our God is a good Father. What ever is born of God overcomes the world. When you become part of God’s family you automatically become a world overcomer. You become an overcomer of sin, sickness, oppression, poverty and death. You become a conqueror of the devil and his kingdom. You are a world overcomer because you are born of God. You are legitimate children of God. John proclaimed this truth when He spoke about us being children of God In the book of John.

“But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name: which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.”

John 1:12-13KJV

It says He gave power to those who received Him. He gave you power to become a son. You become a son when you receive the power. In Acts Jesus said, “You shall receive power when the Holy Ghost comes upon you” (Acts 1:8). The power is the inheritance of the kingdom. You have the full backing of the kingdoms power within you through the Holy Spirit in you. You are born of God, not of the the will of a man or flesh, but a child born of the Most High God. You’re not born of God because your parents brought you into this world, you’re born of God because you’re born again. Just like your first birth which was physical, this one is in the Spirit (Your inner man; the real you). This time you’re born from above by the Spirit of God (Holy Spirit). Jesus spoke about this truth with Nicodemus in the 3rd chapter of John

“Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again. The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit.”

John 3:5-8KJV

Except you’re born of water (Physical birth) & the Spirit (Holy Spirit), you cannot become a world overcomer. It means you first have to be born as a human man or woman before you can even have access to being born of the Spirit to enter the kingdom of God. This shows you another privilege God has given man. We are the only beings that have this privilege of having the new birth through the Holy Spirit. The kingdom of God was made for the Son and His new brothers & Sisters. The power to overcome the world is reserved for the children of the promise. The Sons & daughters of the kingdom of God. You must be born of the Spirit because that which is flesh only gives birth to flesh, and the birth which is of the Spirit from above can only be done by the Spirit from above and that birth of the Spirit gives birth to a new spirit in man. This is what being born again means. It means to be born as a new person in the spiritual world. This birth comes with a spiritual body within you. You become a completely new person on the inside of you. Paul spoke about the nature of this birth in the book of Corinthians.

Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation;

2 Corinthians 5:17-18

If you are in Christ, that is if you have believed in His death & resurrection and you have confessed Him as lord over your life, you become a new person. All of you becomes new and all of you is of God in your new spirit. You become a direct replica of His Son Jesus Christ. You are born again. You become joined with Christ. A Joint heir with Christ, because you are 1 with Him (Romans 8:16-18).

Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death? Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection: Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.

Romans 6:3-6

Paul is explaining to the gentiles here that, just as Christ died, we also died to sin, because He died in our place to pay the debt for our sin. And just as God raised Him up from the dead through the power of the Holy Spirit, we also have been brought into newness of life through the resurrecting power of the Holy Spirit. If we have died together with Him, we are raised into the likeness of His resurrection also. We literally become 1 with Jesus. Like an exact replica. Just like you were born in the likeness of man and you are a man, you are also born in the likeness of Jesus by the Holy Spirit (The spirit of God; The Spirit of Jesus) and you are Jesus.

But he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit with Him.

1 Corinthians 6:17 NKJV

When you become joined with Christ through the new birth, you become 1 with Him. No longer 2 persons, but 1 person and that is Jesus Christ. Yes, You might not feel like it on the outside with your physical senses but the truth is that you are exactly like Jesus Christ in the spirit. You are 1 with Him. God sees you as He sees His son. And until the day you experience that birth, this would still be head knowledge to you. You need to let the Holy Spirit reveal Christ in you. To awaken the Christ consciousness in you through your new birth. We are all now brothers and sisters with Jesus the only Son because we are also now born of God. As Jesus is so are we in this world (1 John 4:17). The Spirit of God in us bears witness to this very fact. HE bears witness with this through revelation knowdlege (Wisdom), signs and wonders and through His various gifts.

For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father. The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God: And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together.

Romans 8:15-16

The Holy Spirit will bear witness to this fact with your own spirit. You are a CHILD OF GOD.

Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God: and every one that loveth him that begat loveth him also that is begotten of him.

1 John 5:1 KJV

The moment you believe in your heart, you become born again. God gives birth to a new son through His Spirit bringing forth a new child within you. At that moment, The Christ Child is born within you. You become joined with the Lord and are 1 Spirit with Him, because you are born of His Spirit. That which is born of flesh is of the flesh and that which is born of the Spirit is of the spirit. To explain this in plain terms, everyone born on this earth is a result of the seed of Adam & Eve because we all came as beings born of them. The seed only produces its own kind (Genesis 1:20-26). Every thing produces after it’s kind. That is how God has created the system to work. So, you being born of the flesh of Adam makes you an offspring of Adam, and when you are born of the Spirit of God, you become God’s own offspring. You become born of God as a Son or daughter. It is exactly like being born as a human, except that this happens in the spirit. You are man a new man on the inside that is born in the exact image of Jesus Christ.

You are born of God right now if you are a believer. And whatever is born of God overcomes the world. He becomes a world overcomer only because He is born of God. Not of any other god, but born of the only one and true God, the creator of the heavens and the earth. I wanted to stress this point because it is the stepping stone to grasping the second part.

“…And this is the victory that has overcome the world—our faith.”

This is the victory that has overcome the world. Our faith. Our faith is the victory we have over the world. Your faith is the victory you have over the world. That is how you overcome the world. Through your faith. Because our faith is the victory that HAS overcome the world. It didn’t say it was going to overcome the world, or it used to overcome the world, the word says it HAS already overcome the world. We are not believing in a savior that is going to come, but we are believing in a savior who has come already and has won the war for us for more than 2000 years ago. It is a done deal. The victory is won already. All we have to do is walk into the land and enjoy its spoils. Go forth into the kingdom and enjoy the abundant life of the Father. Enjoy the stillness of His being and experience the kindness of His heart. Our Faith in God’s word has made us world overcomers because it has already defeated the world. Jesus who is the Word in flesh, beat the devil and trampled him underfoot. We need to stop living in passive defeat. Living in passive defeat puts us in active failure. You need to realize that the war has been won on your behalf already. Jesus has come & He has done the will of God. The will of God is that none of Us perish, but that we all come to repentance. The war is won already. He has overcome the world. He reminds us in the book of John

“These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.”

John 16:33KJV

I don’t know how else to stress the point, but I think you get it now. He clearly said here again, “These things I have spoken unto you..” What things has He spoken unto us you might ask. He has spoken God’s Word, because He is God’s Word. The Bible is the Word of God.

“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.”

John 1:1KJV

He is God. Jesus is God. He spoke God’s Word to us because He was a whole embodiment of God’s word. He was God’s Word wearing a human body. He was divinity in His Spirit. The Complete wholeness of the God head. The Bible is the closest thing we have to those Words. It give’s us complete knowledge and wisdom of the Father and our inheritance in this new kingdom that we have been given out of the deepness of Love in The Heart of God. The love shed abroad in our hearts through His own Heart (Holy Spirit). Everything Jesus spoke was God’s Word because He was sent by God & He was God. The Word was God (John 1:1) and it took on flesh and dwelt amongst us and we do not realise His full light even Uptil today. Whoever is sent of God speaks the very words of God because God does not give His Spirit (The Holy Spirit) by measure unto Him.

“For he whom God hath sent speaketh the words of God: for God giveth not the Spirit by measure unto him.”

John 3:34KJV

God does not give half gifts. He gives in whole because when He decides to act or speak, He acts & speaks in whole. He didn’t give His spirit by measure to Christ, He gave Him His Spirit in fullness. Just as He has given us the Spirit in fullness also. The fullness of the God head (Father, Son & Spirit) was in Christ and we are made full in Him also (Colossians 2:9-12). I say all this to a-certain to the fact that Jesus spoke the very literal Words of God while He was here on this earth. God gave Him His Spirit in Full so He spoke God’s word in full because God gave Him authority over all things (John 3:35; John 17:3).

We have overcome the world through our faith. Jesus has overcome the world already. He won the battle, and we have now been brought into a new kingdom of light, a kingdom prepared specially for the Son and his fellow brothers and sisters. You are given back your true position in the kingdom as it was in the beginning. Being made in the image of GOD. We are the god’s of this earth because the God of this whole universe made us in His image & He dwells on the inside of us.

Our faith gotten from God’s word through hearing and planting it into our hearts has already overcome the world. All we are doing is agreeing with what He has done for us through His death and resurrection. We are agreeing with His Word. The Faith we get from God’s word is what Has overcome the World. So, we need to know the word and act according to what it says by Faith and all things will be subject to our words filled with the Faith of God. All things will bow because what ever is born of God has overcome the whole world. We have victory over the world.