DO YOU WANT THE VICTORY?

                               

2 SAMUEL 23:10-12                                                        

Pastor Rick Jackson

I. THERE IS VICTORY IN A PERSON [1 CHRONICLES 29:11]

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.

1. There is Victory in the Person of God the Father [1 Cor. 15:55-57]

O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law. But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

2. There is Victory in the Person of God the Son [John 16:33]

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.

3. There is Victory in the Person of God the Holy Spirit [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.

II. THERE IS VICTORY IN A PLAN

1. The Plan Involves Faith [1 Jn. 5:4-5]

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?

2. The Plan Involves the Bible [Rm. 10:17]

So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

3. The Plan Involves Dying to Self [Rev. 12:11, 15:2-4]

And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.

And I saw as it were a sea of glass mingled with fire: and them that had gotten the victory over the beast, and over his image, and over his mark, and over the number of his name, stand on the sea of glass, having the harps of God. And they sing the song of Moses the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, Great and marvellous are thy works, Lord God Almighty; just and true are thy ways, thou King of saints. Who shall not fear thee, O Lord, and glorify thy name? for thou only art holy: for all nations shall come and worship before thee; for thy judgments are made manifest.

III. THERE IS VICTORY IN A POWER

1. The Power of the Gospel [Rm. 1:16]

For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.

2. The Power of the Holy Spirit [Acts 1:8, 4:33; 1 Cor. 6:14, 15:43]

But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.

And with great power gave the apostles witness of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus: and great grace was upon them all.

And God hath both raised up the Lord, and will also raise up us by his own power.

It is sown in dishonour; it is raised in glory: it is sown in weakness; it is raised in power:

3. The Power of the lord [Eph. 1:19-21, 3:7, 20; 6:10ff]

And what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, according to the working of his mighty power, Which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places, Far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come:

Whereof I was made a minister, according to the gift of the grace of God given unto me by the effectual working of his power.

Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us,

Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might.