Week 3 We Are Overcomers

Lesson 3: We Are Overcomers

1. Read over Revelation 2:1-3:22 again. The more we read a passage the more the Holy Spirit

reveals to us.

2. Write down on the chart from last week or on a separate sheet of paper, all of the things Jesus has against the seven churches, the rebukes He gives them for compromising.

Our enemies seek to overcome us, to have victory over us, to defeat us.

Psalm 13:4 and my enemy will say, " I have overcome him, and my adversaries will rejoice when I am shaken. "

Who Are Our Enemies?

3. Read the following verses and write down 3 of our enemies:

• James 4:1-3
• James 4:4
• I Peter 5:8

Deuteronomy 7:1-2 lists we call the "Ite Brothers"

"When the Lord your God brings you into the land where you are entering to possess it, and clears away many nations before you, the Hittites and the Girgashites and the Amorites and the Canaanites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and stronger than you, and when the Lord your God delivers them before you and you defeat them, then you shall utterly destroy them. You shall make no covenant with them and show no favor to them.

The land here refers to our hearts. We have many things in our hearts that keep us defeated. The meanings of these words show us who these enemies are:

Hittites-fear

Girgashites- rejection

Amorites- worthlessness

Canaanites-shame

Perizzites- insecurity

Hivites - defilement

Jebusites- hopelessness

Each of the seven churches had to battle the enemies that seek to destroy us and keep us from God's perfect plan for our lives.

Ephesus battled with their flesh in not surrendering totally to the Lord.

Smyrna battled with Satan.

Pergamum battled with the world and Satan.

Thyatira battled with the world.

Sardis battled with their "ITE Brothers".

Philadelphia battled with Satan.

Laodicea battled with their flesh and the world.

2 Peter 2:19b for by what a man is overcome, by this he is enslaved.

4. Which enemies do you have the most battles with in your life today?

Deuteronomy 7:1-2 tells us about these enemies in our hearts, but the great news is, God will overcome those who come against us.

5. Read Jeremiah 1:19 and record your thoughts

6. Write out and memorize John 16:33. This verse will keep you when the enemies come at you! This is a promise you can stand on!

I will leave you today with another promise:

I John 4:4 You are from God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is He who is in you than he who is in the world.