Bro. Mick Smith.
- “Overcomer” Strongs definition ~ “vikáw nikaõ; from 3529; to subdue (literally or figuratively): conquer, overcome, prevail, get the victory. AV (28) – overcome 24, conquer 2, prevail 1, get the victory”
- 1. Be not overcome of evil, but overcome (conquer – get victory over) evil with good. Romans 12:21 (KJV) 2 And I saw, and behold a white horse: and he that sat on him had a bow; and a crown was given unto him: and he went forth conquering (overcoming), and to conquer (getting the victory over evil). Revelation 6:2 (KJV
- 32 Behold, the hour cometh, yea, is now come, that ye shall be scattered, every man to his own, and shall leave me alone: and yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me. 3 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 (or / have victory over) the world. (However, he still had to finish the overcoming life) John 16:32-33 (KJV) 4 For whatsoever is born of God overcometh (or has gained victory over) the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith (our faith in Jesus Christ gives of the victory over the sins of the flesh – the world). S Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth (or has faith) that Jesus is the Son of God? $ Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth (in and has faith) that Jesus is the Son of God? 1 John 5:4-5 (KJV) Let’s look at the promises to overcomers in the letters to the seven churches of Asia. We must look at the context of how this word “overcomer” is used. Here in these letters the context is much different that the way the word is used in the scriptures above. Here the Lord is talking to “saints” who are born again of the Holy Ghost and were alive when the Holy Place (second heaven) was available. Yet they were given corrective measures of judgment required to obtain the promises of an “overcomer” that was given in the context of those letters. Those promises were to those who had obtained the finished work of an overcomer!
- Ephesus – To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God. Revelation 2:7 (KJV)
- 2. Smyrna – He that overcometh shall not be hurt of the second death. Revelation 2:11 (KJV)
- 3. Pergamos – To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden manna, and will give him a white stone, and in the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth saving he that receiveth it. Revelation 2:17 (KJV)
- John 16:33
- Matthew 18:20
- Revelation 18:21-23
- Jeremiah 33:10
- Matthew 18:21-22
- Jeremiah 25:10
- Jeremiah 13:1-14
- 4. Thyatira – that overcometh, and keepeth my works unto the end, to him will I give power over the nations: 27 And he shall rule them with a rod of iron; as the vessels of a potter shall they be broken to shivers: even as I received of my Father. And I will give him the morning star. Revelation 2:26-28 (KJV
- 5. Sardis – He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white raiment; and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life, but I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels. Revelation 3:5 (KJV)
- Revelation 3:5
- Luku 12:49-53
- 6. Philadelphia – Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and Luke 12:19- 53 he shall go no more out (The Greek is stronger “never more at all” beyond the possibility of falling): and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God: and I will write upon him my new name. Revelation 3:12 (KJV)
- 7. Laodiceans – To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne. Revelation 3:21 (KJV)
- Matthew 3:11
- James 3:5-6
- And I saw as it were a sea of glass mingled with fire: and them that had gotten the victory over the beast, and over his image, and over his mark, and over the number of his name, stand on the sea of glass, having the harps of God. Revelation 15:2 (KJV)
- 1John 3:9 & 1 John 5:18
- Hebrews 6:1-6