Daily Bread – March 7, 2022 (The Second Day – Genesis 1:6-8) 1 John 5:5 – Who is conquering the world if not the one believing that Jesus is the Son of God? If we believe Jesus is the Son of God, then we are vested with the power to overthrow Satan at every point of attack. When we were born of God and filled with His Spirit, we were given the authority to stand against all of the powers of darkness and defeat them in His Name. Christ Jesus is above all principalities and powers and having been in-dwelt by Him, brought into union with Him, being seated together with Him in His Heavenly authority, we live in the overcoming power that He won for us (Ephesians 2:6, 10-12; 1 John 4:4, 5:18). The verb used here for the “overcomer” is the present participle of ‘nikan’, and is found at the end of every address to the seven churches in Revelation (Revelation 2:7,11,17,26, 3:5,12,21). We can all rest assured that we will be held responsible before God to live in the overcoming victory won for us by Christ Jesus. I am convinced from Scripture that our whole spirit, soul, and body were purchased by the blood of Jesus and entirely belong to God. But it matters not whether a person believes they have a “soulish” or “fleshly” nature, known by many church traditions as the “corrupt flesh”, or simply as I do – that, as a new creation, we must deal with “all that is in the world” (2 Corinthians 5:17; 1 John 2:15-16). Still, the outcome must be the same: Sin and all that belongs to the world ruled by Satan must be denied and overcome. The faith, which is the born again nature, overcomes the world (1 John 5:4-5). Blessings, Pastor Mark Spitsbergen
Daily Bread 3/7/2022
