VICTORY
OVER THE DARKNESS
John 8:32
32 And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall
make you free.
Jesus promises His people that, “you shall know the truth and the truth
shall set you free.” If it takes the truth to make us free, then we must seek
the truth that John is speaking of.
Our identity in Christ Jesus is a fundamental truth that we believers
need to understand, if we are to experience this promised freedom and grow to
maturity in our Christian faith.
We tend to identify ourselves and each other by what we look like, what
we do and perhaps even our denominational preference. Is who you are determined
by what you do, or look like, or believe in or is what you do, look like and
believe determining who you are.
Your understanding of who you are is the critical foundation for your
belief structure and your behavior patterns as a Christian. The only identity
equation that works in Gods kingdom is you plus Christ. You plus Christ equals
wholeness and gives your life meaning.
In Gods kingdom everyone has the same opportunity for a meaningful life.
The wholeness and meaning of life are not products of what you have or don’t
have. What you’ve done or haven’t done. In Christ you are already a whole
person and already possess a life of infinite meaning and purposes because you
are a child of God.
The truth is the key to having victory over darkness. The truth is His
word. His word is His will for our lives which is the glory of God within us
through Christ Jesus.
Colossians
1:26-27 26 Even the mystery which hath been hid from ages and from
generations, but now is made manifest to his saints:
27 To whom God would make known what is the riches of the
glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of
glory:
As you were born again, that
rebirth, caused the glory of God in you. the faith of God is in you and the
mind of Christ is in you. More important the love of God is in you. you have to
walk in that glory even in the face of the devil’s attacks on your life.
Dare to release your expectancy of
glory and before long you will realize you have it and more. There is no glory
in the god of unbelievers because Satan and all he stands for is their god.
When your belief system is intact
and your relationship with God is based on truth you will have little if any
difficulty working out the practical aspects of daily Christianity.
1 John 5:4-5 4 For
whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that
overcometh the world, even our faith.
5 Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that
believeth that Jesus is the Son of God?
If we follow Gods prescribed
order, we will overcome the darkness of the world. Faith in Gods word and what
was finished at the cross gives us the victory over the darkness of the world.
This darkness that I am speaking
of is some of the evil things that we are seeing on the news of today, killing
for no reason, cheating, hating each other, stealing, looting, and many other
sorts of meanness.
These things are the works of
darkness and the devil is having a hay day. Convincing people that this is ok,
it is not ok and never will be. An unbeliever cannot understand what I am
trying to say, because they know nothing of God and live carnally.
Until they make Jesus the Lord of
their lives by accepting him as savior, they will never have this spiritual
wisdom. Wisdom comes by the Holy Spirit, people who have not accepted Jesus as
Savior do not have the Holy Spirit.
The Holy Spirit does give
spiritual knowledge. Wisdom and knowledge are not the same.
1 Corinthians 12:8 8 For to one is given by the Spirit the word of
wisdom; to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit;
Jeremiah
4:22 22 For my
people is foolish, they have not known me; they are sottish children, and they
have none understanding: they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no
knowledge.
God is saying
here that people are sots, or stupid, or drunks and do not know me. They are
wise to do evil but have no idea how to do good.
They have no
knowledge of God, despite the fact that they were Gods people. Their lack of
knowledge of God was due to their abandonment of the word.
To many people
listen to the knowledge of men and have no desire to learn of the knowledge of
the word.
Proverbs
9:10 10 The fear
of the Lord is
the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is understanding.
Once again, the
Holy Spirit tells us that all of our knowledge is futile unless we have the
fear of the Lord, which is the beginning of wisdom.
This truth will
give you victory over the evil spirit of darkness.
Stay in the word,
Brother Andy
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