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Jacob.” But you never read of God saying, “I am the God of Esau,” and you never read of God saying, “I am the God of Lot.” Poor old self-in dulgent, sensual Esau. God was ashamed of him. Poor old worldly, compromising Lot, who with his com promising sent his family to hell and turned his daughters into harlots. Do you mean to say God is proud of a man like that? No, indeed. God sees if you and I are overcomers. What is the result? “I will confess your name.” Just imagine, God—up there —to confess your name and mine be fore the angels and before the ran somed in glory! And then in chapter 3 and verse 21: “To him that over cometh 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.” We shall be set in heav enly places with Jesus Christ; we will be set where we will be able to say, “I am m onarch of all I survey, My right there Is none to dispute.” t h r e e c l a s se s o e p e o p l e . There are three classes of people in the world. There are those who ex ist, there are those who live, and there are those who reign; but the vast bulk of people are people who merely exist. You will find their names in the birth-book and you will find them when they come to die, but God alone knows what happens be tween their birth and death. They have never done much harm or much good. They have merely existed. They are born, they have eaten and slept and worked and died, and that is all you know about them. Then again, there are those who live, but the smallest crowd in the world are those who reign, like your president, like our king, and like the other rulers of the nations of the earth. They are among the few, but it is God’s will that every child of His should be a
sions, pr show me a professing Chris tian who gets drunk, and I will show you one that is hurting the Church of Jesus Christ more than ten thou sand skeptics, however bad and out rageous they may be. If everyone of us would learn the secret of this life of overcoming, all the powers of hell could not prevail against us, and we would honor God more and attract dejected souls to the Saviour. Have you noticed how many promises are made in the Bible to those who live the overcoming life ? The first book of the Bible speaks to us about a man being overcome and the last book tells us about a man being able t.o over come if he will only trust the Lord. Will you turn to Revelation, chapter 2, verse 7? “He .that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches: To him that over cometh will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God.” Then in the sev enth verse we read: “He that over- cometh shall not be hurt of the sec ond death.” The twenty-sixth verse says: “And he that overcometh, and keepeth my. works unto the end, to him will I give power over the na tions.” Chapter 3, verse 5: “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.” ABRAHAM AN OVERCOMER. Abraham was an overcomer, and you read of God saying, “I am the God of Abraham.” Isaac was an overconler, and you read often of God saying, “I am the God of Isaac.” Jacob was an overcomer, and how often you read of God saying, “I am the God of Jacob.” God was proud to say, “I am the God of
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