Title: Fight hard and win!
Contents Bible text: Revelation 21:5-8 Title: Fight hard and win!
Revelation 21:5-8.
5 And he who sat on the throne said, Behold, I am making all things new.
And he said to them, “Write down, for these words are faithful and true.” 6 And he said to me, It is done. I am the Alpha and the Omega.
The first and the last, I will give to the one who thirsts the spring of the water of life freely; 7 He who overcomes will inherit these things.
I will be his God, and he will be my son. 8 But the fearful and the unbeliever and the wicked
murderers, and fornicators, and sorcerers, and idolaters,
All liars will be thrown into the lake burning with fire and brimstone.
this is the second death
* In the race of faith, there is only one goal: to win.
Even if you lose on the sports arena, you have a chance to try again.
In the race of faith, defeat and defeat share the same meaning as death.
You cannot and should not set any goals other than winning.
Today's text encourages our members to fight hard and win.
1. The Lord makes all things new (5)
2 Corinthians 5:17-17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation.
The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.
2. The word of the Lord is fully fulfilled (6)
3. You must overcome to obtain an eternal inheritance (7)
* What to fight and win?
1. You must fight the world and win.
1 John 2:15-17 15 Do not love the world or the things in the world
If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. 16 For all that is in the world is the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life.
All are not from the Father, but from the world.
17 "The world and its lusts have passed away, but the will of God
He who does it abides forever."
1 John 5:3-5 3 This is the love of God, that we keep his commandments.
His commandments are not heavy. 4 Everyone who is born of God overcomes the world.
This is the victory that overcomes the world, our faith. 5 Who overcomes the world, except he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God? John 16:33 33 These I tell you so that you may have peace in me.
In the world you will have tribulation, but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world.
2. We must fight and overcome the devil and Satan.
In 1 Peter 5:8-9
8 Be sober and watchful, your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour. 9 Be strong in the faith and resist him.
For you know that your brothers in the world suffer the same things.
3. You have to fight yourself and win.
In 1 Corinthians 9:24-27
24 All runners in the field run, but the one who receives the prize
Do you not know that you are one man? Run likewise for your reward. 25 Everyone who competes for the victory is temperate in all things.
They want the crown of the victor, which is perishable, but we want the incorruptible. 26 So I run not like nowhere.
I do not fight like beating the air; 27 I beat my body into submission, after I have preached to others.
for fear that he himself will be forsaken.
In 1 Corinthians 15:31, I affirm by my boasting.
I die every day."