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A Closer Walk

Attitude of the Righteous

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Our ministry is to reach out to the world with the Good News of Jesus Christ and to help believers be equipped with a solid knowledge of the Word of God, the Bible, and be encouraged to apply it in every aspect of their daily lives. There are simple truths for these complex times to help people live in a way that brings real spiritual victory to them and more importantly, through the Lord Jesus Christ, glory to God our Father.

Revelation 3:21
He who overcomes, I will grant to him to sit down with Me on My throne, as I also overcame and sat down with My Father on His throne.
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That word that Jesus spoke to the people in the 'church' at Laodicea through John is a message intended to be heard and heeded by all believers. He is proclaiming what the Spirit is speaking to all of the churches. {Rev.3:22} We must all be overcomers!

It is a fact, a Scriptural truth, that Satan goes about as a roaring lion seeking to devour us {1Pt.5:8}, but the truth is also that the Lion of the Tribe of Judah, Jesus, has overcome the devil. He defeated him and made a public display of that as He died upon the cross, was buried and then rose again! {Col.2:15}

We have been given the victory {1Cor.15:57} and now we have to live it daily. The apostle Paul puts it so beautifully speaking of the trials and tribulations, all of the perils of the world and the attacks of the evil one, and then saying that in all of those things we overwhelmingly conquer through God who loves us. {Rom.8:35-37} We overcome!

Throughout the Scriptures we have been given the battle plan that always (yes, always) leads to victory at the end of the matter. That plan, laid out in a number of places in both the Old and New Testaments, is based on fact that the war has already been won and our heavenly reward set in place.

I realize that while we are in the world Satan may have the ability to kill our bodies but of course that cannot defeat us. Jesus said 'do not fear those who can kill the body' {Mat.10:28} because we have already died {Col.3:3} and have been given eternal life.

Consider the words of the Lord to Martha, the sister of Lazarus—words given to instruct us—as He went to the tomb, not to mourn but to bring life: “Jesus said to her, 'I am the resurrection and the life; he who believes in Me shall live even if he dies, and everyone who lives and believes in Me shall never die. Do you believe this?'” {Jn.11:25-26} Lazarus walked out of that tomb when Jesus called him. Praise God, we have been called!

The question to us today is the same as that day: “Do you believe this?" It always boils down to faith. As John wrote our victory over the world comes from our faith {1Jn.5:4} which comes from hearing, really hearing, the voice of the Lord. {Rom.10:17} Of course, hearing Him must lead to obeying Him. We must hear His word and then act on His word! {Mat.7:24-25}

Satan has indeed been defeated, the danger, the great real enemy of our soul, is our flesh. The flesh with its worldly desires. It is no secret, it is a choice between the deeds of the flesh or the fruit of the Holy Spirit. {Gal.5:16-23} Do you believe this?

The way to overcome is laid out for us by the faithful who have gone on before us:

“And they overcame him (Satan) because of the blood of the Lamb and because of the word of their testimony, and they did not love their life even to death.” (Revelation 12:11)

HEAR AND OBEY—THERE IS NO OTHER WAY