Pastor Caroline - February 17, 2021

 

1 John Chapter 5 Verses 1-5 in the Good News Bible is where I would like to share from today.

Let’s read starting at verse one:

(1) Whoever believes that Jesus is the Messiah is a child of God; and whoever loves a father loves his child also.

(2) This is how we know that we love God’s children: it is by loving God and obeying his commands.

(3) For our love for God means that we obey his commands. And his commands are not too hard for us,

(4) because every child of God is able to defeat the world. And we win the victory over the world by means of our faith.

(5) Who can defeat the world? Only the person who believes that Jesus is the Son of God.

 

When my eyes fell on this title, “Our victory over the World”, my heart leapt with joy. The very first word, whoever, that is you and me, we are the whoever believes that Jesus is the Son of God, and we are the whoever, who loves God and so we must love His children. His children are those who believe Jesus is the Son of God.

Verse 2 says, by loving God and obeying His commands and showing our love to others shows them we are God’s children.

Our love must be that of the Father, reaching out to help others, provide for others, invite others to believe and accept Jesus as the Son of God, teach others to walk in His ways, and obey His commands which in turn will keep us from harming or hurting our fellow citizens.

We must not live and accept the worldly ways, as verse 4 says,

(4) because every child of God is able to defeat the world. And we win the victory over the world by means of our faith.

 

We live in this world but we are not of this world. Philippians Chapter 3 Verse 20 in the Good News Bible tells us,

(30) We, however, are citizens of heaven, and we eagerly wait for our Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, to come from heaven.

 

We wait and our faith keeps us strong in the ways of the Lord keeping us away from the evils of the world, the very things we know are wrong and should not do because they eventually bring us harm, and so as we stand strong in our faith we are able to overcome sin and temptation!! We are over-comers!  Our victory is in our faith in Jesus, and Jesus on the cross, who overcame the world!!

Verse 5 asks,

(5) Who can defeat the world? Only the person who believes that Jesus is the son of God.

Jesus defeated the world and those of us who believe in Him and accept Him, as Lord and Savior, can claim the victory.

This my friends, is; victory over the world, by means of our faith, as we are told in verse 4.

I believe Jesus defeated the world and so I claim my victory over the world. How about you?

Have a blessed day in knowing whose you are, you belong to God. Hallelujah!!