25-1003A_HOW CAN I OVERCOME
Rev 3:21 To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne.
Rev 3:22 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.
1Jn 4:4 Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.
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*THIS LAODICEA CHURCH AGE IS
THE GRANDEST OF ALL THE CHURCH AGES, BECAUSE IT'S THE ENDING OF TIME AND THE
BLENDING OF ETERNITY.
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44 We see this age that we're living in. It's one of the
grandest ages of all ages. This Laodicea Church Age
is the grandest of all the church ages, because it's the ending of time and the
blending of Eternity. And, then, it's the greatest sinful age. It's more sin in this age than there's ever been. And the
powers of Satan is--is many times harder to fight against than it was in any
age. See? Here!
45 Back there in early ages, a Christian could, for his profession of in a church, of
belonging to Christ, could be beheaded for it. He could be killed, and
put out of his misery, and go to meet God, quickly.
But now the enemy has come in, in the name of the church, and it's so deceiving. This is the great age of deception. When, Christ said so, "The two spirits would be so close in the last days till it would deceive the very Elected if it was possible." See? See? See? Remember, Christ spoke of an elected people for the last day. See? "It would deceive the very Elected if it were possible." So close! The people so live, people can live a clean, holy life; not be sinful, adulterers, and drinkers, and liars, gamblers. They can live above that, and still not with It. That's right.
*IT'S A BATTLE. YOU'VE GOT TO
KNOW YOUR ENEMY, AND YOU'VE GOT TO KNOW YOUR ARMOR.
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E-56 Now, as it was in the days of Noah, there was giants in
the land, you know. And so, Satan also has his
intellectual giants in the land. That's right. Oh, my. D.D., D.D., Ph.,
double L, Oh, my, my, my, intellectual giants... Oh, they know all the words,
all the grammar; they know--they just know it all, intellectual
giants…
E-56 …..If it's with the Word, it is so. Now, we know we've got counterfeits everywhere. That's right. It's a battle. You've got to know your enemy, and you've got to know your Armor. Your Armor is the Word. Your enemy is something that'll reason against It. "Now, I tell you, dear, you don't have to do this. Our church is the biggest church. We got more..." Uh-huh, intellectual giants...
*YOU HAVE TO TRAIN TO HIT YOUR ENEMY. AND ALWAYS, GOD USES HIS WORD.
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12 Now, Jesus said, in Mark 16, "In My Name they shall
cast out devils." Now, I know that's an old saying that people--or, there
is an old saying that... And it's not so old either. People don't believe in
demons in this day. But the thing to do, to my opinion, is know your enemy.
And--and know your enemy, and train for the contest
that you're going to have when you meet him, because you're going to meet him. And
know him, know his, know what his strength is, and then train for this contest
when you do meet him. For it's one thing sure, you're going to meet him. And so
you train for the contest.
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14 And I think that's a very good thing for Christians to do. That's right. And now if you want to start training, start with John 3:16, the Golden Rule. Start right out with that, and that'll get you on the floor. And then train for the--for the knockout punches, because you're going to have to use them. Everybody knows that. You have to train to hit your enemy. And always, God uses His Word. We must remember that God uses His Word to defeat His enemy. If God could think or could've give His people anything better to defeat the enemy with, He would've done it. So as I've always said, "When God makes a decision, that's the best that there is. He never has to alter His decisions." So the first decision God gave His people in the garden of Eden to combat the enemy, was His Word. They were fortified with His Word.
*NOW, I CHOSE THIS BECAUSE
THAT I THINK THAT IT'S A TIME THAT WE SHOULD NEVER LET THE SPIRIT OF REVIVAL
DIE.
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And I want to take my subject, this morning,
of this: How Can I Overcome? Now, I chose this
because that I think that it's a time that we should never let the Spirit of
revival die. We've got to keep in revival, constantly revived, every day. Paul
said he had to "die daily, that Christ could
live." And we must never let that revival die, within us.
*HIS CALL HERE IS NOT TO JUST
THE CHURCH. "HE THAT OVERCOMETH."…BUT IT'S "HE THAT
OVERCOMETH," THE INDIVIDUAL THAT WILL OVERCOME, NOW.
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37 And now we're speaking on this, "overcoming."
The word overcome, of course, you know what it means. You've got to have something to overcome. And this
church age that the Holy Spirit was speaking about here, at the Laodicea Church
Age, as we have just been through it, needed a rebuking. Laodicea had to be rebuked, because of its--its different
towards Christ. It had put Christ outside, in--in their age. And Christ
was on the outside, trying to get back on the inside. That's love. After He had been put out of His Own house, was trying to
come back in, and said, "He that'll open the door, I'll come in to
him." See? The church, itself, in whole, had put Him out.
38 But now notice. His call here is not to just the church. "He that overcometh." See? Not the church; that would be she, see, the church body. But it's "he that overcometh," the individual that will overcome, now.
*OVERCOME, KEEP LIFE IN YOU.
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41 I was crossing an old log the other day, down a--a wash, or what is called a hollow. And I jumped up on this log. On the outside, it looked good, looked like a big old beech log. But when I jumped on it, oh, a great chunk of it fell off. It was real rotten and dotty. I said, "That's the way the Christians are becoming." They been dead in sin and trespasses, so long, till become doty. They can hold no weight, at all. They--they don't know what the overcoming means. I begin to think of this text, then. Overcome, keep Life in you. When life went out, that's what brought that log to that condition. See? And it made it worse than ever when it laid in the branch where the water was.
*THIS IS THE--THE AGE OF
LIFE, PERSONAL LIFE OF CHRIST, WHERE, THE--THE CHEMICAL OF HIS BODY, WHAT WAS
IN HIM.
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46 This is the--the age of Life, personal Life of
Christ, where, the--the chemical of His Body, what was in Him.
First, under justification, the water baptism. Second, under the new Birth, of Wesley, sanctification, which cleanses. And thirdly, under the baptism of the Holy Spirit, putting that sanctified vessel into service. See? The word sanctify means, it's a compound Greek word which means "cleaned and set aside for service," set aside for service. Now the Holy Spirit puts it in service. See?
*SO, STRIVE WITH ALL THAT'S IN
YOU, TO STAY IN THE LIFE OF CHRIST, THAT YOU BE FRUIT-BEARING.
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42 And then, there, you take a
Christian, that's supposed to be a Christian, let the Life of God go from him, and
the experience, the joy of serving Christ; and, living in a church where such
is going on, he rottens twice as quick, right, living right under.
43 So, if we are trying to follow the Message of the hour, or at least this part of the Message, we should live constantly in the Life of Christ. See? Cause, if it don't, you lay around, and know That, these things that you're supposed to do, and don't do it. The Bible said, "He that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it's sin." Then you become doty, rotten, when you're separated from the Life of God. So, strive with all that's in you, to stay in the Life of Christ, that you be fruit-bearing.
*… THERE'S ALWAYS, EVERY
TIME, IN EVERY AGE THAT THERE'S BEEN ON THE EARTH, GOD HAS ALWAYS HAD SOMEBODY
HE COULD PUT HIS HANDS ON.
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51 Now, we see these hours that we're in, this stage, and we
see what it was. And the Holy Ghost is rebuking the age that put Him out. But,
in all that, did you notice, "To him that overcometh"? [Congregation
says, "Amen."--Ed.] Even in that worldly,
wicked church age, "Him that overcometh."
52 We find here that God has always had overcomers. He's had overcomers in every age. There's always, every time, in every age that there's been on the earth, God has always had somebody He could put His hands on, as a witness in the earth. He's never been without a witness, though sometimes just one. But somebody overcome, now, like the saints of old.
*FAITH IS THE VICTORY THAT
OVERCOMES THE WORLD…..BUT FAITH IN JESUS CHRIST WHO MADE THE PROMISE. THAT'S
THE VICTORY.
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E-23 Now, faith is a conqueror;
faith is an overcomer. It just isn't a--a peace maker, it overcomes. Faith is the victory that overcomes the world. What
does it do? What is faith? What is the conqueror? Conquer and victory is the
same. To conquer, it means to beat down, to override, to handcuff, to throw
into prisons. It means that the sin, that once
ruled you, you rule it now. It means that you have overcome it, you
are--you've whipped it. You're greater than it is. Oh,
I feel religious, right now.
Which was first, a
sinner or a Saviour? A Saviour, for a Saviour is more powerful than a sin. Which was
first, the Healer or a sickness? It couldn't be a Healer, 'less it was over the
sickness. It is a Healer; it could conquer the sickness. And
faith is the victory that overcomes every curse of the devil. Faith is the
victory.
E-24 Faith in what? Not faith in your church, not faith in your creed, not faith in some man, but faith in Jesus Christ Who made the promise. That's the victory. What is it? It is the victory. Say, "My arm's still crippled." But faith is the victory. "I still feel sick." but faith is the victory. Oh, it overcomes the world. When you can climb into God by prayer, until you seen the thing conquered under you. There is nothing that can hurt you then. You've overcome. You got fifty miles of elbow room. You're sailing free then.
*BUT THERE WAS AN ELECTED
GROUP; AND THAT ELECTED GROUP, AS SOON AS THE EVENT COME, THAT REALLY BELIEVED
IN IT WITH SINCERITY.
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59 There is that Elected, that Bride. Not all of the Jewish church come forth at that time. All of them made the same sacrifice. All of them was under the shed blood of the lamb. But there was an elected Group; and that elected Group, as soon as the event come, that really believed in It with sincerity. Now I'm coming to the word overcome. Now hold that. These that had really overcome, sincerely making the same offering that the rest of them made, but, in sincerity, overcome the things of the world. When the propitiation correctly was made for them, they were in paradise until that play at that time. When that time was made, they had overcome and was resting, sleeping; see, "many bodies of those that slept in the dust," see, slept.
*IT'S ALL THAT IS UNDER THE
SHED BLOOD IS OVERCOMERS, 'CAUSE YOU CANNOT OVERCOME, YOURSELF. IT'S HE THAT
OVERCOME FOR YOU. YOU'RE RESTING.
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68 And there's always
been an ark in God's economy. There was an ark in the days of Noah, for the
saving of His people. There was an ark in the days of the law, ark of
testimony. In the
days of the law, they followed the ark.
And there is a third
dispensation now; like Noah's time, Lot's time, and now this time. There is an
ark now. And that ark is not a denomination, neither
is it a good works that you do. "It's by one Spirit," Romans
8:1, "we are all baptized into one Body, in the domain of that Kingdom,
one Spiritual baptism." No matter how good, how bad, whatever, you're in
that Kingdom by--by Holy Ghost baptism. See? That's
the only way you overcome. It's all that is under the shed Blood is overcomers,
'cause you cannot overcome, yourself. It's He that overcome for you. You're
resting.
69 "How will I know then, Brother Branham, that I'm in There?" Watch what kind of a life you're living. Just look around. See if it's just lived out of you, automatically. Or, you have to strain and pull, see, then you're doing it. But don't try to do it. Did you ever try? Yeah. Don't.
*THE THING YOU HAVE TO
OVERCOME IS YOURSELF, YOUR IDEA, YOUR THING, AND SURRENDER YOURSELF TO HIM. HE
OVERCOME FOR YOU.
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71 If the little baby keeps trying, "Oh, I can do it. I
can do it." And he's just everywhere. He can't do it.
Neither
can you, neither can I, but if we'll just hold still and let Him do it.
Just yield to Him, "Here, Lord, here I am. Just--just let me be
nothing. I--I yield. You put my hand in the right place." That's the victory. That's overcoming.
72 The thing you have
to overcome is yourself, your idea, your thing, and surrender yourself to Him.
He overcome for you. He knows the way; we don't.
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