Let’s consider this question again. This is
what we must grasp. Who is he that overcomes
the world? He who believes that Jesus is
the Christ. Do you believe that Jesus is the
Christ, the Son of the Living God? If so, then
you have committed yourself to overcoming
the world. If you believe the Word of God,
then your attitude should be, “Well, praise
God, I’m an overcomer!” This should be your
attitude regardless of what comes against you.
Jesus said in John 16:33:
These things I have spoken unto
you, that in me ye might have peace.
In the world ye shall have tribulation:
but be of good cheer; I have overcome
the world.
In other words, Jesus is saying, “The world
will come at you with everything it has to offer,
but don’t worry about it—I’ve already beaten
it—I’ve already overcome the world.” Jesus was
not referring to just 99 percent of the world.
He said, “I have overcome the world.” One
hundred percent of it! It makes no difference
what the world throws at you, you can turn to
Jesus because He has already overcome it.
Now notice He said, “that in me ye might
have peace.” Jesus was teaching here about
being one with Him and being one with the
Father. He was telling His disciples that soon
the Holy Spirit would come and do things they
could not then understand. They couldn’t
grasp what it meant to be “in Him.” Without
the Holy Spirit today, none of us could understand
this. It takes the Holy Spirit to reveal
these things—particularly the reality of being
born again. Jesus told Nicodemus about it, but
he could only think of a man going back into
his mother’s womb. Jesus told him, “I’m speaking
of heavenly things, and you don’t even
understand earthly things” (John 3:13).
These men had no concept of what Jesus
was about to do at Calvary. They had no idea
that through His death and Resurrection, He
was to become the firstborn from the dead and
issue forth a new race of men who are, in God,
born again and filled with the mighty Spirit of
God Himself. They could not conceive this
when He was on the Cross, nor even after He
was raised from the dead. Only after the Holy
Spirit came on the Day of Pentecost could they
see what Jesus had been saying. Then Peter
stood up and boldly preached the Word of
God by revelation of the Holy Ghost. Can you
see the change in his life?
Kenneth Copeland Ministries
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