Living the Victorious Christian Life Through the Love of God!

John 3:16
The WORLD… He didn’t say the church, the saved, or those who follow Jesus. He said the whole world. (Kosmos… The inhabitants of the Earth, men, the human family) That means God loves the drug addict, prostitute, and transgender the same way He loves me. These are just lost sons and daughters who don’t know who they were created to be yet.
The truth is, there are a lot of successful people who don’t know who they were created to be, God didn’t call you to live successful, he called you to live victorious!
Many have sacrificed “victorious” on the altar of “success”. We are called to live VICTORIOUS!
Leif preached about a God who looks like Jesus, but some have created a god who looks more like Ben Franklin ($100) sacrificed God time for overtime. Gave in to the “Time Bandits”
If the enemy can’t destroy you, he’ll distract you. Those distractions often look like success. But it’s not victory! Victorious is more important than successful.
We are called to overcome… that’s the victorious life! Eat of the Tree of Life; Eat of the hidden manna, white stone and a new name; Give power over the nations; sit with Me on my throne.
That’s the victorious life!

Matthew 3:13- 4:11
The temptations that Jesus faced were Identity, Performance, and Integrity.
The only way to overcome these challenges consistently is by receiving the Love of the Father and walking in that love. Knowing your vertical relationship is the foundation to all the horizontal relationships.

John 17:20-23
This is my favorite new revelation…. He loves me just as He loves Jesus!
I am LOVED by God!

Matthew 22:36-40
Even though this is in your New Testament, it’s still under the Old Covenant.

John 13:34-35
Under an old covenant, the best you could do is to love your neighbor the same way you love yourself. But now Jesus is raising the bar, and under the New Covenant, because we have received the Love of the Father, we now can Love like Jesus!
You cannot live a victorious life and harbor unforgiveness! You cannot live a victorious life and be prejudiced against others. You cannot live a victorious life and have hatred in your heart. To walk out a victorious life, you must determine “My ability to love you has to be greater than your ability to hurt me!”
Gifts may fool you for a while, but fruit never lies!!! Is the fruit of living a victorious life evident in your life today?