THE OVERCOMER

JESUS, THE OVERCOMER

(JN 16:33) 『 "These things I

have spoken to you, so that in
Me you may have peace. In the
world you have tribulation, but
take courage; I have overcome
the world." 』
Promises for 7 churches
Ephesus 1. the tree of life
Smyrna 1. the crown of life
2. will not be hurt at all by the second death
Pergamum 1. hidden manna
2. a white stone
3. a new name
Thyatira 1. authority over the nations
2. will rule them with an iron scepter
3. will dash them to pieces like pottery
4. the morning star
Sardis 5 promises
Philadelphia 6 promises
Laodicea “the right to sit with me on my throne”
• (REV 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. 』
• (REV 21:7) 『 "He who overcomes shall inherit
these things, and I will be his God and he will be
My son; 』
THE SECRET

(1 JN 5:4) 『 For whatever is born

of God overcomes the world; and
this is the victory that has overcome
the world-- our faith. 』
WHAT KIND OF FAITH?
Faith that fills the GAP

•God’s promise and current

situation.
•What I heard/read and
what it seems.
JACOB, THE OVERCOMER

(Gn 32:28) 『 Then the man said, "Your

name will no longer be Jacob, but Israel,
because you have struggled with God and
with men and have overcome.“(NIV)
• (Gen 32:9-12) 『 [9] And Jacob said, "O God of my father
Abraham and God of my father Isaac, O LORD, who said to
me, 'Return to your country and to your relatives, and I will
prosper you,' [10] I am unworthy of all the lovingkindness
and of all the faithfulness which You have shown to Your
servant; for with my staff only I crossed this Jordan, and
now I have become two companies. [11] "Deliver me, I
pray, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau;
for I fear him, that he will come and attack me and the
mothers with the children. [12] "For You said, 'I will surely
prosper you, and make your descendants as the sand of
the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude.'" 』
(GEN 28:12-15) 『 [13] "I am the LORD, the God of
your father Abraham and the God of Isaac; the land
on which you lie, I will give it to you and to your
descendants. [14] "Your descendants shall also be
like the dust of the earth, and you shall spread out to
the west and to the east and to the north and to the
south; and in you and in your descendants shall all
the families of the earth be blessed. [15] "And
behold, I am with you, and will keep you wherever
you go, and will bring you back to this land; for I will
not leave you until I have done what I have promised
you." 』
 Faith that fills the
GAP!

Claiming God’s
promise!
Loma Linda
“"In the fall of 1903 I had a vision of a sanitarium in the midst of
beautiful grounds, somewhere in southern California, and no
property I had visited answered to the presentation given in this
vision…
"While attending the General Conference of 1905, at Washington,
D. C., I received a letter from Elder J. A. Burden, describing a
property he had found four miles west of Redlands, five and one
half miles southeast of San Bernardino, and eight miles northeast
of Riverside. As I read his letter, I was impressed that this was one
of the places I had seen in vision....”(LS15, 405)