1. Grace Fellowship Church www.GraceDoctrine.org
Pastor/Teacher
Jim Rickard
Sunday,
May 4, 2008

2. TEKNION represents the teach-ability of the loved student who is on the path towards spiritual maturity.

3. 1 John Series
1 John 4:4
The Overcomer

4. NIKAO - Overcomer Perfect, Active, Indicative, To conquer, prevail, overpower or overcome.

5. The Extensive Perfect Tense emphasizes past victory over the negative influence of false teaching, leading to further spiritual maturity.

6. The Overcomer

7. The Overcomer 1) Every believer, because of the saving work of Jesus Christ on their behalf - this is also called Positional Sanctification.

8. The Overcomer 2) Believers who grow to spiritual maturity and are winners of rewards in the eternal state - Experiential Sanctification.

9. Rev 5:5, “And one of the elders said to me, “Stop weeping; behold, the Lion that is from the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has overcome so as to open the book and its seven seals.”

10. John 16:33, “These things I have spoken to you, so that in Me you may have peace. In the world you have tribulation, but take courage; I have overcome the world.”

11. The 2nd category are believers who live inside (GPS), learn Bible doctrine, pass momentum tests, advance to Spiritual Maturity, fulfill the Plan of God, and glorify Jesus Christ, 1 Peter 5:9-11.

12. Rom 12:21, “Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.”

13. Rev 3:11, “I will be coming quickly; hold fast what you have, so that no one may take your crown.” See also 1 John 2:13:14

14. Isa 40:30, “Though youths grow weary and tired, and vigorous young men stumble badly, 31Yet those who wait for the LORD will gain new strength; they will mount up with wings like eagles, they will run and not get tired, they will walk and not become weary.”

15. The Adolescent believer is reminded that through the application of the Word in their soul, they have victory over Satan's Cosmic System.

16. Rewards for Overcomers
Rewards for Overcomers. Rev 2:7, 10-11, 17, 26-28; 3:4-5, 12, 21; and 21:7.

17. Communion

18. No one would be an “Overcomer” without the Victory of the Lamb of God
No one would be an “Overcomer” without the Victory of the Lamb of God. Rev 3:21b

19. Offering

20. Grace Fellowship Church
Sunday, May 4, 2008
Tape # 08S-018
Overcomers and Winner Believers
1 John Series
1 John 4:4; Rev 2-3
James H. Rickard Bible Ministries 2008