ALWAYS TRIUMPHANT

II CORINTHIANS 2:14

Now thanks be unto God, which always causeth us to triumph in Christ, and maketh manifest the savour of his knowledge by us in every place.

I. WE ARE IN A CONFLICT

A. “TRIUMPH” SUGGESTS A BATTLE

B. FROM CONVERSION TO DEATH

C. WRESTLING AGAINST POWERS EPHESIANS 6:10-18

D. FIGHT THE GOOD FIGHT I TIMOTHY 6:12; II TIMOTHY 4:7

E. DEVIL AS A ROARING LION I PETER 5:8

F. WE AGREE TO FIGHT IN THIS SPIRITUAL WARFARE II TIMOTHY 2:3,4

1. THEREFORE ENDURE HARDNESS AS A GOOD SOLDIER (V.3)

2. PLEASE HIM WHO HATH CHOSEN HIM TO BE A SOLDIER

II. HE CHOOSES

A. IT IS NOT A DEFEATIST LIFE

B. WE ARE MORE THAN CONQUERORS ROMANS 8:37

C. CHRIST GIVES US POWER LUKE 10:19

D. DEFEAT IS NOT IN THE CHRISTIAN’S VOCABULARY I JOHN 4:4 “GREATER IS HE”

E. “BUT THANKS BE TO GOD, WHICH GIVETH US THE VICTORY THROUGH OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST” I CORINTHIANS 15:57

III. OUR VICTORY IS NOT SPASMODIC BUT CONTINUOUS

A. “ALWAYS” CAUSETH US TO TRIUMPH

B. NOT UP ONE DAY DOWN THE OTHER

C. HE IS A “PRESENT HELP IN TROUBLE” PSALM 46;1

D. CONTINUOUS, EVER ABIDING VICTORY I JOHN 5:4

IV. BATTLES NOT WON BY OUR OWN STRENGTH

A. “GOD CAUSETH” US TO TRIUMPH

B. WE ARE NO MATCH FOR OUR FOES

C. OUR CAPTAIN CONQUERS HIM FOR US HEBREWS 2:10

D. DANIEL WAS IN THE DEN, SO WAS GOD

E. THE HEBREW CHILDREN WERE IN THE FURNACE, SO WAS GOD

F. “NOT BY MIGHT, NOR BY POWER…ZECH 4:6

V. THERE IS A PLACE OF SAFETY

A. WE TRIUMPH “IN CHRIST”

B. THE BATTLE RAGES…TRIALS EVERYWHERE

C. WE OVERCOME BECAUSE OF OUR POSITION

D. HID WITH CHRIST, IN GOD COLOSSIANS 3:3

E. HEDGE AROUND US JOB1:1

F. A GARDEN ENCLOSED SONG OF SOLOMON 4:12

VI. THE REASON IS TO MANIFEST CHRIST

A. NOT TO SHOW OUR STRENGTH OR POWER

B. TO SHOW THAT THE TRANSCENDING POWER BELONGED TO GOD, NOT US II COR 4:7

C. LETTING THE WORLD SEE THE BEAUTY OF JESUS THROUGH US

Always Triumphant