15TH JULY, 2021

PASTOR OLUBI JOHNSON

BECOMING AN OVERCOMER

Revelation 3:21-22 NKJV
To him who overcomes I will grant to sit with Me on My throne, as I also overcame and sat down with My Father on His throne.

An overcomer is a disciple in deed who continues in the Word (Jn. 8:31-32).

They use the nature of God in their born-again human spirit, by the power of the Holy Spirit, to overcome the sin nature in the soul and flesh, to bring forth the fruit of the Spirit.

Our calling and election are not the same thing. Our calling refers to our invitation to go to heaven; while election speaks of our selection or choice to attain the fulfillment of our destiny.

As we become greater and greater overcomers, we make firstly our going to heaven certain. Secondly, we make our election and fulfilling our destiny certain.

These truths are revealed in the rewards of the overcomer stated by the Lord Jesus to the churches through John in Revelation 2 and 3.

There are seven increasingly glorious rewards given to the overcomer:

1. Eating from the tree of life. Partaking of the divine nature using the promises in the written Word (Rev. 2:7; 2Pet.1:4).

2. Not being hurt by the second death. Not going to hell (Rev. 2:11; Rev. 20:14).

3. Hidden manna, a white stone, and a new name. Receiving revelation from the Word of God that leads to personal inner purity (Rev 2:17; Mt. 16:17-18).

4. Power to rule over nations and the morning star. Wielding spiritual authority over nations through prayer and intercession like Daniel (Rev. 2:26-28; Dan. 4.17).

5. Clothed with white garments.
A condition in which all the sin nature in the physical body has been cleansed out by the divine nature (Rev. 3:5; 2Cor. 5:4, 7:1).

6. Made a permanent pillar in the temple of God. This speaks of a permanent operation in the mature love of God which makes our election sure (Rev. 3:12; 1Jn. 4:8; Gal. 2:9).

7. Sit with the Lord Jesus on His throne.
Experiencing the same spiritual Kingly power the Lord Jesus operated when He was on the earth (Rev. 3:21-22; Jn. 14:12).

These rewards are revealed using primarily symbolic language and are a foretaste of the powers of the age to come that overcoming Christians can experience now in this dispensation (Heb. 6:5).

Christ Himself progressively inherited these rewards. An overcomer cannot afford to retrogress in the things of the Spirit: we must continue to increase in our commitment and diligence in the things of the Spirit.

You may fall and stumble, but you must rise again and continue to move forward in spiritual matters (Pr. 24:16).

Otherwise, if after receiving reward no. 2 you retrogress, God in His mercy and love, will cut you off physically, so you will certainly go to heaven but lose some of the other rewards and some of your destiny (2Jn. 8; 1Cor. 5:5).

We become overcomers and so inherit these rewards (not gifts!) by faith and patience in walking in the love of God with increasing diligence and efficiency, until we attain the perfection and fullness of Christ (Heb. 6:12).

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