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“BUT HAS TRULY AS I LIVE,
ALL THE EARTH SHALL BE
FILLED W/THE GLORY OF LORD.”
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For everyone born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that
the victory that has overcome the world, even our faith.
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JOHN 16:33:
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have peace.In this world you
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I have overcome the world.”
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JOHN 16:33
17 After Jesus said this, he looked toward heaven and prayed:
“Father, the hour has come. Glorify your Son, that your Son may glorify you. 2 For you
granted him authority over all people that he might give eternal life to all those you have
given him. 3 Now this is eternal life: that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus
Christ, whom you have sent. 4 I have brought you glory on earth by finishing the work
you gave me to do. 5 And now, Father, glorify me in your presence with the glory I had
with you before the world began.
Jesus Prays for His Disciples
6 “I
have revealed you[a] to those whom you gave me out of the world. They were yours;
you gave them to me and they have obeyed your word. 7 Now they know that everything
you have given me comes from you. 8 For I gave them the words you gave me and they
accepted them. They knew with certainty that I came from you, and they believed that
you sent me. 9 I pray for them. I am not praying for the world, but for those you have
given me, for they are yours. 10 All I have is yours, and all you have is mine. And glory
has come to me through them. 11 I will remain in the world no longer, but they are still in
the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, protect them by the power of [b] your
name, the name you gave me, so that they may be one as we are one. 12 While I was
with them, I protected them and kept them safe by[c] that name you gave me. None has
been lost except the one doomed to destruction so that Scripture would be fulfilled.
13 “Iam coming to you now, but I say these things while I am still in the world, so that
they may have the full measure of my joy within them. 14 I have given them your word
and the world has hated them, for they are not of the world any more than I am of the
world. 15 My prayer is not that you take them out of the world but that you protect them
from the evil one. 16 They are not of the world, even as I am not of it. 17 Sanctify them
by[d] the truth; your word is truth. 18 As you sent me into the world, I have sent them into
the world. 19 For them I sanctify myself, that they too may be truly sanctified.
Jesus Prays for All Believers
20 “My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through
their message, 21 that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in
you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me. 22 I
have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one— 23 I
in them and you in me—so that they may be brought to complete unity. Then the world
will know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me.
24 “Father, I want those you have given me to be with me where I am, and to see my
glory, the glory you have given me because you loved me before the creation of the
world.
25 “RighteousFather, though the world does not know you, I know you, and they know
that you have sent me. 26 I have made you[e] known to them, and will continue to make
you known in order that the love you have for me may be in them and that I myself may
be in them.”

John 5:4
I. WHAT IS THE TRUE NOTION OF CONQUERING THE WORLD? Where did John
learn the expression? It comes from that never-to-be-forgotten night in that upper room,
where, with His life's purpose apparently crushed into nothing, and the world just ready
to exercise its last power over Him by killing Him, Jesus Christ breaks out into such a
strange strain of triumph, and in the midst of apparent defeat lifts up that clarion note of
victory: — "I have overcome the world!" He had not made much of it according to usual
standards, had He? His life had been the life of a poor man. Neither fame nor influence,
nor what people call success had He won, judged from the ordinary points of view, and
at three-and-thirty is about to be murdered; and yet He says, "I have beaten it all, and
here I stand a conqueror!" That threw a flood of light for John, and for all that had
listened to Christ, on the whole conditions of human life, and on what victory and defeat,
success and failure in this world mean. Following in the footsteps of Jesus Christ
Himself, the poor man, the beaten man, the unsuccessful man may yet say, "I have
overcome the world." What does that mean? Well, it is built upon this, — the world,
meaning thereby the sum total of outward things, considered as apart from God — the
world and God we take to be antagonists to one another. And the world woos me to
trust to it, to love it; crowds in upon nay eye and shuts out the greater things beyond;
absorbs my attention, so that if I let it have its own way I have no leisure to think about
anything but itself. And the world conquers me when it succeeds in hindering me from
seeing, loving, holding communion with and serving my Father, God. On the other hand,
I conquer it when I lay my hand upon it and force it to help me to get nearer Him, to get
like Him, to think more often of Him, to do His will more gladly and more constantly. The
one victory over the world is to bend it to serve me in the highest things — the
attainment of a clearer vision of the Divine nature, the attainment of a deeper love to
God Himself, and of a more glad consecration and service to Him. That is the victory —
when you can make the world a ladder to lift you to God.
II. THE METHOD BY WHICH THIS VICTORY OVER THE WORLD IS TO BE
ACCOMPLISHED. We find, according to John's fashion, a three-fold statement in this
context upon this matter, each member of which corresponds to and heightens the
preceding. There are, speaking roughly, these three statements, that the true victory
over the world is won by a new life, born of and kindred with God; that that life is kindled
in men's souls through their faith; that the faith which kindles that supernatural life, the
victorious antagonist of the world, is the definite, specific faith in Jesus as the Son of
God. The first consideration suggested by these statements is that the one victorious
antagonist of all the powers of the world which seek to draw us away from God, is a life
in our hearts kindred with God, and derived from God. God's nature is breathed into the
spirits of men that will trust Him; and if you will put your confidence in that dear Lord,
and live near Him, into your weakness will come an energy born of the Divine, and you
will be able to do all things in the might of the Christ that strengthens you from within,
and is the life of your life, and the soul of your soul. And then there is the other way of
looking at this same thing, viz., you can conquer the world if you will trust in Jesus
Christ, because such trust will bring you into constant, living, loving contact with the
Great Conqueror. He conquered once for all, and the very remembrance of His
conquest by faith will make me strong — will "teach my hands to war and my fingers to
fight." He conquered once for all, and His victory will pass with electric power into my life
if I trust Him.
14 And all the congregation lifted up
their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night.
2 And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron:
and the whole congregation said unto them, Would God that we had died in
the land of Egypt! or would God we had died in this wilderness!
3 And wherefore hath the LORD brought us unto this land, to fall by the
sword, that our wives and our children should be a prey? were it not better
for us to return into Egypt?
4 Andthey said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let us return into
Egypt.
5Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the
congregation of the children of Israel.
6And Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, which were of
them that searched the land, rent their clothes:
7And they spake unto all the company of the children of Israel, saying, The
land, which we passed through to search it, is an exceeding good land.
8If the LORD delight in us, then he will bring us into this land, and give it us;
a land which floweth with milk and honey.
9Only rebel not ye against the LORD, neither fear ye the people of the land;
for they are bread for us: their defence is departed from them, and
the LORD is with us: fear them not.

But all the congregation bade stone them with stones. And the glory of
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the LORD appeared in the tabernacle of the congregation before all the
children of Israel.

And the LORD said unto Moses, How long will this people provoke me? and
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how long will it be ere they believe me, for all the signs which I have shewed
among them?

I will smite them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of
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thee a greater nation and mightier than they.

And Moses said unto the LORD, Then the Egyptians shall hear it, (for thou
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broughtest up this people in thy might from among them;)

14 And they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land: for they have heard that
thou LORD art among this people, that thou LORD art seen face to face, and
that thy cloud standeth over them, and that thou goest before them, by day
time in a pillar of a cloud, and in a pillar of fire by night.

Now if thou shalt kill all this people as one man, then the nations which
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have heard the fame of thee will speak, saying,

Because the LORD was not able to bring this people into the land which he
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sware unto them, therefore he hath slain them in the wilderness.