Dear Partner,
July 4, 1776, marked a monumental victory for the American Continental Army, 249 years ago. The only nation in history with an unchanged law of the land, the Constitution of the United States of America has been fought over by politicians but never changed! It’s been attacked by other nations but never defeated! First John 5:4 in the Amplified Bible, Classic Edition says it all:
- For whatever is born of God is victorious over the world; and this is the victory that conquers the world, even our faith.
Don’t stop there. Look at verse 5, AMPC:
- Who is it that is victorious over [that conquers] the world but he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God [who adheres to, trusts in, and relies on that fact]?
That, dear Partner, is you and me. The Book you and I are reading is heaven’s unchangeable constitution! The Author said of Himself in Malachi 3:6, AMPC:
- For I am The LORD, I do not change; that is why you, O sons of Jacob, are not consumed.
Jehovah is the proper name of the One, true God: “I AM THE LORD! I CHANGE NOT!” You and I know Him as Jesus, the Son of the ONE, AND ONLY, TRUE GOD!
I know you’ve heard me say this many times in letters and on the BVOV broadcasts: “Every believer has a voice, and it’s the voice of VICTORY!” That voice comes up out of our spirits, into our hearts, and then into our mouths, saying, “Greater is He who is in me than he who is in the world.” Who is the Greater ONE? First John 4:4 says, “Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.” Now let’s look at it in the AMPC: “Little children, you are of God [you belong to Him] and have [already] defeated and overcome them [the agents of the antichrist], because He Who lives in you is greater (mightier) than he who is in the world.”
Then go to Acts 2:1-4, AMPC:
- And when the day of Pentecost had fully come, they were all assembled together in one place,
- When suddenly there came a sound from heaven like the rushing of a violent tempest blast, and it filled the whole house in which they were sitting.
- And there appeared to them tongues resembling fire, which were separated and distributed and which settled on each one of them.
- And they were all filled (diffused throughout their souls) with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other (different, foreign) languages (tongues), as the Spirit kept giving them clear and loud expression [in each tongue in appropriate words].
Remember what George Washington did and said the day he took the oath of office the first time? He opened his Bible to Genesis 17:1-2. Let’s look at it in the AMPC: “When Abram was ninety-nine years old, The LORD appeared to him and said, I am the Almighty God; walk and live habitually before Me and be perfect (blameless, wholehearted, complete). And I will make My covenant (solemn pledge) between Me and you and will multiply you exceedingly.”
Then he shocked everyone. He kneeled down, kissed his Bible, and looking up toward heaven, said, “YOU WILL BE OUR GOD, AND WE WILL BE YOUR PEOPLE.” The scripture inscribed on the Liberty Bell is Leviticus 25:10: “Proclaim LIBERTY THROUGHOUT ALL THE LAND UNTO ALL THE INHABITANTS THEREOF.”
This is all well and good. But what does “victorious over the world” mean? You and I know that when the Bible speaks of “the world,” it is talking about “the flesh” or the “natural man.” For instance, in 2 Peter 1:3 (AMPC), the word life is referring to spirit, soul and body. Does that include victory over death? Yes! Victory over poverty? Yes! How do you and I know that? Galatians 3:13-16 (AMPC):
- Christ purchased our freedom [redeeming us] from the curse (doom) of the Law [and its condemnation] by [Himself] becoming a curse for us, for it is written [in the Scriptures], Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree (is crucified); to the end that through [their receiving] Christ Jesus, THE BLESSING [promised] to Abraham might come upon the Gentiles, so that we through faith might [all] receive [the realization of] the promise of the [Holy] Spirit. To speak in terms of human relations, brethren, [if] even a man makes a last will and testament (a merely human covenant), no one sets it aside or makes it void or adds to it when once it has been drawn up and signed (ratified, confirmed). Now the promises (covenants, agreements) were decreed and made to Abraham and his Seed (his Offspring, his Heir). He [God] does not say, And to seeds (descendants, heirs), as if referring to many persons, but, And to your Seed (your Descendant, your Heir), obviously referring to one individual, Who is [none other than] Christ (the Messiah).
Now look at verse 29 in the AMPC: “And if you belong to Christ [are in Him Who is Abraham’s Seed], then you are Abraham’s offspring and [spiritual] heirs according to promise”—RATIFIED BY THE SINLESS AND PRECIOUS BLOOD OF JESUS! The great Apostle Paul, by THE GREATER ONE living inside him, answered all these questions, and many others, in the first letter he wrote to the church at Corinth. Let’s look at Chapter 15:23-25, 28 in the AMPC:
- But each in his own rank and turn: Christ (the Messiah) [is] the firstfruits, then those who are Christ’s [own will be resurrected] at His coming. After that comes the end (the completion), when He delivers over the kingdom to God the Father after rendering inoperative and abolishing every [other] rule and every authority and power. For [Christ] must be King and reign until He has put all [His] enemies under His feet…that God may be all in all.
Wow! “GOD MAY BE ALL IN ALL,” meaning EVERYTHING TO EVERYONE, SUPREME, THE INDWELLING AND CONTROLLING FACTOR OF LIFE! Read through verses 42-45, also in the AMPC:
- So it is with the resurrection of the dead. [The body] that is sown is perishable and decays, but [the body] that is resurrected is imperishable (immune to decay, immortal). It is sown in dishonor and humiliation; it is raised in honor and glory. It is sown in infirmity and weakness; it is resurrected in strength and endued with power. It is sown a natural (physical) body; it is raised a supernatural (a spiritual) body. [As surely as] there is a physical body, there is also a spiritual body. Thus it is written, The first man Adam became a living being (an individual personality); the last Adam (Christ) became a life-giving Spirit [restoring the dead to life].
It’s not the spiritual life which came first, but the physical, and then the spiritual. Verses 47–48 (AMPC) say: “The first man [was] from out of earth, made of dust (earthlyminded); the second Man [is] The LORD from out of heaven. Now those who are made of the dust are like him who was first made of the dust (earthly-minded); and as is [the Man] from heaven, so also [are those] who are of heaven (heavenly-minded).”
Now rejoice over verse 49 in the AMPC, and then verses 51-52, also in the AMPC:
- And just as we have borne the image [of the man] of dust, so shall we and so let us also bear the image [of the Man] of heaven…. Take notice! I tell you a mystery (a secret truth, an event decreed by the hidden purpose or counsel of God). We shall not all fall asleep [in death], but we shall all be changed (transformed) in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the [sound of the] last trumpet call. For a trumpet will sound, and the dead [in Christ] will be raised imperishable (free and immune from decay), and we shall be changed (transformed).
That’s truly wonderful but, as they say, “The best is yet to come!” Now look at verses 54-57:
- And when this perishable puts on the imperishable and this that was capable of dying puts on freedom from death, then shall be fulfilled the Scripture that says, Death is swallowed up (utterly vanquished forever) in and unto victory. O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting? Now sin is the sting of death, and sin exercises its power [upon the soul] through [the abuse of] the Law. But thanks be to God, Who gives us the victory [making us conquerors] through our LORD Jesus Christ.
THANKS BE TO OUR GOD WHO HAS GIVEN US THE VICTORY THROUGH OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST—OVER DEATH, HELL AND THE GRAVE! As The LORD told me many years ago, Let The WORD fight its own fight. It has the power within itself to cause itself to come to pass.
As you sow your BLESSING seed this month, MAKE A PERSONAL CONFESSION from all of these Blood-backed, exceeding great and precious promises and facts according to Hebrews 3:1-3. Jesus is the High Priest and Apostle over our confession of faith.
Then close by saying, “Thank You, Jesus, that I am one in a million Partners in the USA before the end of this year, and another million Partners internationally.” Now let’s look at Ephesians 4:13-16, this time in the King James Version.
- Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ: that we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive; but speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ: from whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love.
There it is in verse 16: Every joint supplies and makes increase in Love. This is the victory!
Remember, God Loves you, Gloria and I Love you, and Jesus is LORD!
Love,
