John the apostle wrote the following,'This is the victory that has overcome the world,even our faith' (1 John 5 v 4) David Jackson writes the following,'And this faith is not escapism; on the contrary ,it is the only ultimate realism. For, as Howard Marshall reminds us,'It rests four square on the fact that Jesus Christ has defeated death,and anybody who can defeat death can defeat anything'.Yes and we who are His followers,can be more that conquerors through faith,yes the odds are against the church ,thousands are being slaughtered every year,but still the church marches on ,the church cannot be destroyed,as the one who died Jesus, could not be destroyed,yes He died ,but that was not the end ,for on the third day He rose from the dead,and got the victory over sin,death,and Satan.outside of Christ there is no victory over sin.the reason Jesus came was to deal with sin,when we trust Him our sins are forgiven,and the power of sin is broken in our lives.The drunkard is no longer a drunkard ,he has been set free from that bondage,for whom Christ sets free is free indeed. (John 8 v 36) When we trust Jesus we get the victory over death, because He lives we will live,and will live eternally (John 11v 25)Last but not least He got the victory over Satan,yes there is a devil contrary to what people think, he is the enemy of God's creation,and especially His new creation. That means every Christian,he wants to destroy them,he wants them to give up, he wants to lure them away from Christ,but through Christ we can know the victory. Someone wrote the following,'The work of Christ is a work of power,because it put life into dead men; it is a work of grace, because it reached out to those who had no reason to expect the benefits of God'.
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