The Overcomers Get All the Good Stuff! Part 1

The Overcomers Get All the Good Stuff! Part 1
Brad Reiches
May 19 2008 11:42AM

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Monday, May 19, 2008

GodThoughtsWired!

  "The Overcomers Get All The Good Stuff!"

PART 1:  OVERCOMING...SIN

"To him who overcomes..."

Revelation 2:7, 11, 17, 26; 3:5, 12, 21

The first (no particular order) of the five key areas in which we must {attain the knowledge, develop the skills, and cultivate the will} to overcome is:

-Sin.

"Sin is crouching at your door,

and its desire is for you, but you must master it."

Genesis 4:7

Yes, we must master sin.  "His divine power has granted to us everything pertaining to life and godliness" (2 Peter 1:3).  That being the case, it simply boils down to skills and choices.  Is it fair for me to suggest that, "The time already past is sufficient for you to have carried out the desire of the Gentiles, having pursued a course of sensuality, lusts, drunkenness, carousing, drinking parties and abominable idolatries" (1 Peter 4:3).

So, skills and choices.  First, the skills:

"But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no

provision for the flesh in regard to its lust."

Romans 13:14

Solomon put it this way,

"Do not enter the path of the wicked and do not proceed in the way of evil men.

Avoid it and do not walk by it; turn away from it and pass on."

Proverbs 4:14-15

And then, the choices.  "Choose for yourselves today, whom you will serve...But Daniel made up his mind that he would not defile himself" (Joshua 24:15; Daniel 1:8).

Skills, choices, mastery over sin.  And the overcomers get all the good stuff...FOR ETERNITY.