Overcomers

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God wants His Christians to overcome and has given promises to them that overcome. In the seven letters to the seven churches Jesus Christ makes promises and admonishments to them:

“He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God.”

(Revelation 2:7 King James Version)

“He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; He that overcometh shall not be hurt of the second death.”

(Revelation 2:11)

“He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden manna, and will give him a white stone, and in the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth saving he that receiveth it.”

(Revelation 2:17)

“And he that overcometh, and keepeth my works unto the end, to him will I give power over the nation.”

(Revelation 2:26)

“He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white raiment; and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life, but I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels.”

(Revelation 3:5)

“Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God: and I will write upon him my new name.”

(Revelation 3:12)

“To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne.”

(Revelation 3:21)

Jesus is coming back for an overcoming church, not a defeated church. He wants us to overcome, not quit! He has not promised anything to quitters—only overcomers!

We must overcome sin, false teaching, challenges, trials, fears, persecution, bitterness, pride, insecurity, lust, discouragement, problems, depression, suicidal thoughts, the world, and the Devil.

God has given the wherewithal to live in the victory continually. He has not planned any defeat for us—only victory.

Self-pity, a defeatist attitude, or a rebellious attitude will not help us to overcome.

Of course, we are supposed to go through persecutions, trials, tribulations, suffering, etc., but we are overcomers in all things:

“We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed.”

(2 Corinthians 4:8-9)

“What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?

He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?

Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God’s elect? It is God that justifieth.

Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.

Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.

For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,

Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.”

(Romans 8:31-39)

Paul and Barnabas said we must go through much tribulation on our way to God’s kingdom:

“Confirming the souls of the disciples, and exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that we must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God.”

(Acts 14:22)

Even though we are to go through various trials does not negate the fact that we are to be overcomers and live in victory. Jesus said,

“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 16:33)

“For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith.

Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God?”

(1 John 5:4-5)

If there ever was a time that the church needs to overcome, it is now. If it does not overcome it will be swept away with the world.

“He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son.

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.”

(Revelation 21:7-8)