New Year 2009 – Being an Overcomer

Bible Text: Various | Preacher: Alan Conner | Series: 2009

Northwest Bible Church – Dec. 28, 2008 – Worship Service – Alan Conner

New Year’s Message for 2009

Being an Overcomer

Intro

I. THE MEANING OF OVERCOMING

A. Spiritual

B. No perfectionism

C. All believers included

D. To defeat an enemy

Sum: An overcomer is a believer who may lose some battles with sin, but who fights off the enslaving influences of sin and lives a life of faith and obedience to Christ.

II. THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING AN OVERCOMER

A. We face many enemies that want to overcome us.

B. The danger of not overcoming. 2 Pet. 2:19-20

III. WE WILL OVERCOME

A. The promises of overcoming.

Rom. 6:14 For sin shall not be master over you, for you are not under law, but under grace.

1John 3:9

No one who is born of God practices sin, because His seed abides in him; and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.

1John 4:4

You are from God, little children, and have overcome them [spirit of the antichrist]; because greater is He who is in you than he who is in the world.

 

B. The power of overcoming.

1) Christ overcame. John 16:33

2) His life is in us. Gal. 2:20

IV. THE PRACTICAL SIDE OF BEING AN OVERCOMER

A. Walk by _____________.

B. Have confidence in the _________________________ of God.

C. Put on the ___________________of God.

D. Resist.

E. _____________________ to God.

F. Perseverance.

V. THE REWARD FOR OVERCOMING

Rev. 2-3

Conclusion