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The Blessed Life is a Victorious Life

        When we come to Christ we enter into a victorious life. We don’t have to obtain victory, but we already have everything we need to live a victorious life. Victories come at great costs. Jesus paid for our victory on the cross. Colossians 2:14-15 says, “having wiped out the handwriting of requirements that was against us, which was contrary to us. And He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross. Having disarmed principalities and powers, He made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them in it.”

          I love the words of I Corinthians 15:57, “But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.” Provision was made at Calvary for our complete victory. Jesus went to the cross to make a way for us to live in complete victory over sin. Romans 5:6 says, “For when we were still without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly.”

          We learn in Romans 8:37, “yet in these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us.” To be more than a conqueror is to live and walk in complete victory. I John 4:4 says, “You are of God, little children, and have overcome them, because He who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.” The Holy Spirit empowers us to be overcomers. 

 To experience victory there are two things we must do:

  1. We must know our enemy. Ephesians 6:12 says, “For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.” We wrestle with an unseen enemy.
  2. We must deploy our offensive and defensive weapons. Ephesians 6:13 says, “Therefore take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.”  Our offensive weapon is the “sword of the Spirit.” Ephesians 6:17 instructs us to “take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God;” 
        I John 5:4-5 says, “For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world—our faith. Who is he who overcomes the world, but he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?” A blessed life will be a victorious life.

 


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