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I heard about two brothers who were both terrible rotten sinful men, and one of the brothers died, and the other brother went to the pastor and said,
"I want you to do my brother's funeral, and somehow in that message I want you to call my brother a saint, and if you do, I'll give your church $10,000."
The pastor said, "Well, you know how difficult that will be because you know what kind of a man your brother was."
He said, "I do, but for $10,000 you call him a saint."
The pastor thought about it, and finally the day of the funeral he got up and he said,
"There are several things I would like to say about this man who has just died.
He was a liar, a drunkard, a cheat, a womanizer, a blasphemer, a reprobate, and a bum.
But compared to his brother he was a saint."
We could call those guys losers!
Isn’t that one of the worst things you could be called?
Just the thought of some one thinking we are losers is horrible.
We don’t want to be losers.
My mother in law decided to buy the girls a new board game.
This was no ordinary game because when we opened the package everything was blank.
Someone came up with the idea to package up a board game that was completely blank!
The idea was that YOU get to create your own game.
Well, the girls LOVED this idea!
They came up with their OWN game.
With their OWN rules.
It was super cute, but to me it was pretty frustrating because they made it impossible for DAD to WIN!
I am pretty sure the rules kept changing right when I was about to win.
I was certainly the LOSER the ONE time I played.
And you know what?
It wasn’t fun.
We all want to be winners in life.
I don’t know that I’ve ever met anyone who likes losing.
In our finances we want to win, as a parent we want to be the best, marriage, job, the list goes on and on.
What I’d like to talk about is winning in spiritual.
Are you winning in your christian walk today?
Isn’t that the most important thing?
Not just so we can go to heaven when we die, but are you living a victorious life as a follower of Christ?
I would say that you are more of a winner than you might know.
You are more victorious than you probably realize.
God has made His own board game and already called you the winner.
The enemy has been defeated and has no claim over you if you are a surrendered follower of Christ.
There are promises in the Word of God for us that we can stand on, and hold on to when we question whether or not we are victorious.
When things get dark we tend to operate in fear instead of faith.
We start to forget that we are the overcomers through Christ.
I want to encourage you.
I want to remind you of who you, who He is, and the promise we have!
in order to walk in Victory you need to...
Know who YOU are
I am convinced we walk in defeat instead of victory because we don’t understand the transformation that took place when we placed our trust in Jesus as our Saviour.
We allow the old us dictate who the new us is and guess what?
The old us isn’t right.
The Bible I read tells me that when we surrendered to Christ that we are a NEW creation.
Our old ways should be left in the past.
Don’t let the enemy tell you that you are still the same old person.
This is what steals our victory over sin.
We think that we can never overcome the chains that have bound us for so long.
This is a LIE.
Here’s some encouragement, you are set free from those things that have bound you before.
You just need to understand WHO you ARE.
Jesus tried to explain this to people.
John 8:31–34 (CEV)
31 Jesus told the people who had faith in him, “If you keep on obeying what I have said, you truly are my disciples.
32 You will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”
33 They answered, “We are Abraham’s children!
We have never been anyone’s slaves.
How can you say we will be set free?”
34 Jesus replied: I tell you for certain that anyone who sins is a slave of sin!
Did you hear what He said?
If you follow Him then you don’t have to be slaves to sin anymore.
In other words...WE HAVE THE VICTORY.
It’s a matter of understanding who you are as a follower of Christ.
You need to say to God - I am who I am because of who you are!
You are a new creation.
You are reconciled!
That means that once you may have been far from God. Lost in your own selfish life.
But God, because of His great love for you has reached down in grace and lifted you up to enjoy a position of intimate relationship with Him.
This is something to praise Him over.
We can stand in His presence without spot or blemish because the blood that was shed for us covers all our iniquity!
That’s why Paul says in this verse that we are righteous!
21 For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.
This certainly doesn’t mean that we are righteous in our own strength.
No, this means that when we became a new creation that Christ who did live a righteous life traded places with us.
Who are you?
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