How To Overcome Defeat - How to be an Overcomer

[Music] park Berkeley here I call you blessed in the name of Jesus welcome to the broadcast today whatever media however it's coming to you we welcome you hope it's a great blessing to you we've studied hard and we got some good word for you listen we're in the middle of a series one I've taught taught again teaching it now it's just simply called how to be an overcomer you can get it if you want it's easy and it's one of the many things that we are for a short season downloading for free so when you get this you may so be in that time span if not it's still available to you and I taught a whole series I've heard all my life people say I'm an overcomer we should be overcomers the Bible says he's made us more than over comers but what is one what does it mean how do you get there because I like to win and I like to win against all odds and you can when you learn how God said to do it I'm also praying for you to meet my Christ a lot of the things we teach her for God's kids and so invite him in your life today sometime during this broadcast think about us pray for us and anytime you can send some financial seed because that helps us bring all this stuff basically free to everybody on the globe here we go it's gonna be awesome I hope you got your Bible because your life is about to be changed amen to bring a Bible tonight we're gonna study a few minutes lift it up hope you don't get tired of doing this because I'm gonna keep saying this I believe you're gonna have the fruit of your lips say I believe everything that my Bible says no matter what the devil says no matter what his friends say and no matter what my circumstances say tonight I am a believer therefore I'm a receiver I do believe that I will receive absolutely everything that God has for me tonight in Jesus name I think we ought to clap you're not tired are you come on thank God thank God thank God turn with me to Isaiah 61 please amen now I interrupted my series I've been doing a series on overcomers in the series well we kind of been hitting some different topics on becoming over comers the first one we talked about was what is an overcomer and we talked about how to find victory in troubled times and breakthroughs in and how God helps us do that it is the will of God for you to be an overcomer you may not feel like one you may be losing some battles but that is not the will of God for your life let me promise you that right now so we started out dealing with that we dealt with discouragement everybody say discouragement we dealt with condemnation say it condemnation and and we talked the difference between that and conviction and how and where they fit in and all of that praise the Lord and then we talked about hurt feelings say hurt feelings that was a good one wasn't it and then we did one on bitterness and unforgiveness say it bitterness the last one we did together was on anxiety say anxiety being anxious and worrying and what do you do about that and tonight for a few minutes I want to talk about how to overcome defeat how to overcome two and we're going to deal with that just a few minutes Isaiah 60 are you there excuse me Isaiah 61 are you there the Spirit of the Lord God is upon me remember Jesus this is about Christ remember he quoted this one day in his own right as cou recorded in the Gospels the Spirit of the Lord God is upon me because the LORD hath anointed me to preach the gospel or the good tidings you know the gospel of good news unto the meek he has sent me to bind up that brokenhearted to proclaim Liberty to the captives and the opening of the prison to them that are bound to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord and the day of vengeance of our God and to comfort all that mourn now let's make a quick list because this is uh well there's two reasons to read this I think one we're a reflection or a servant of or or a follower or a disciple of Jesus Christ now this is what God had anointed Jesus to do as we fulfilled his ministry and the earth and do what we're called to do we should be doing some of these things under the Lord Jesus Christ and under his permission and under his anointing let's go back through and make a make a you know a mark one two three four five or something here we go the Spirit of the Lord God is upon me because the Lord hath anointed me to preach put number one by that or a little star however you mark it on your electronic device or in your Bible to preach good tidings unto the meek he has sent me to you you mark bind up he has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted so we should go to the brokenhearted to proclaim Liberty to the captives put a mark on that proclaim Liberty to the captives the next one in the opening of the prison to them that are bound that doesn't just mean you know the natural prison if someone committed a felony or something went to jail he is not talking about a jail is talking about getting people free from the bondages of life and they and being a prisoner to the enemies of life amen to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord is another one - is the Lord's anointing and it's his call to keep reminding us of the debt not only the day we live in but the day of the Lord that's coming amen etc and it says and the day of vengeance of our God you and I would call that probably the Judgment Day it's coming or the Great Tribulation Period where the wrath of God is poured out and to comfort all that mourn to comfort all that mourn so if we go down through this list we would find out that this a lot of this is still the work of the church amen now I want to go over to Joshua chapter 1 go with me please Joshua chapter 1 say praise God or something Joshua 1 Joshua you know if you know the story he took over from Moses by the hand of God and Moses laid hands on him in front of all the people and I just want to start reading because it's a powerful text about feeling like you're not going to have the victory Joshua didn't necessarily feel like he was qualified he didn't feel like he was as strong or as big as Moses his father mentor I guess we might say pastor verse 1 now after the death of Moses that may say Moses is dead the served in the Lord it came to pass that the Lord spoke unto Joshua the son of nun Moses minister or servant saying verse 2 Moses my servant is dead now therefore arise go over this Jordan thou and all of this people under the land which I do give to them even the children of Israel verse 3 every place that the sole of your foot shall tread upon that have I given unto you as I said unto Moses everybody say tread upon I'm coming back to that verse for from the wilderness and this Lebanon even on to the great river the river Freddie's all the land of the hit Tyson on to the great seed towards the going down of the Sun shall be your coast five there shall not any man be able to stand before thee all the days of thy life now that phrase means to have victory over you or to win the battle or to resist you nobody say nobody the rest of verse five as I was with Moses so will I be with thee I will not fail thee nor forsake thee say it sound just like my god that's what he said to Joshua I believe it's what he's saying to us I'll not fail you and I'll not forsake you in the battlefield and I'll be there to give you the victory verse six now you know when you read the Bible you don't have to say the numbers I'm saying that in case you lose track of me verse six be strong and of good courage for onto this people shalt thou divided inheritance the land which I swear unto their fathers to give them seven only be thou strong and very courageous that thou may us observe to do according to all the law which Moses my servant commanded they turned out from it to the right hand or to the left not the right or the left that thou mayest prosper whether so ever thou go us and we'll come back to this as well because I saw it this helps us with victory verse eight this book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth but thou shalt meditate therein day and night that thou may observe to do according to all that is written therein for then thou shall make thy way prosperous and then thou shalt have good success when then well when is then when you get the Word of God in your mouth and you meditate in it day and night then the Lord said after that you could say then means after that in this case or what if the Word of God is not in my mouth what if I'm always talking some defeat talk or something that's a great you know you may maybe it's just coming out of you like a murmur or a grape or a complaint but actually it's a it's a indictment against the Scriptures then then you probably are not going to enjoy the fullness of prosperity which is not just money and and the great success in this life god you know the more I walk with God the more I realize he's extremely intricate but he's not really complicated he's made this about as simple as he can that that almost simpleton level someone could understand what God is saying and follow after the Living God and get saved and live after his ways amen verse 9 final verse for this text have not I commanded thee be strong and of a good courage be not afraid be not afraid was she'd underline that neither be thou dismayed this may is a weird form of discouragement when you can't see your dream come true or you can't picture how within yourself how would this ever be how would God ever move there's no way out of this that creates a feeling of dismay and the commandment is you don't be afraid Joshua neither be thou dismayed for the Lord thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest now to me that look that sounds like Joshua had a choice Joshua you can be defeated or not you can be dismayed or not you can be of good courage or no courage you can be courageous or discouraged it sounds like a choice I mean when someone when God says you be strong and of a good courage it almost sounds like okay well what if I don't or when he says if you meditate in this my word and you speak this out you will be prosperous and a great success it's almost like I'm commanding you to do it but if you don't do it there's an alternate life that's why I try to tell nobody but someone wants so we're brother Barclay you're making us tithe and then they can you do nothing that's not true they're not making you do anything well you are you know you're you teach that you have to tithe you've never heard me teach that in your entire life I don't believe you have to tithe and I believe there are some people stupid enough not to and they just take matters in their own hands and then they wonder why all kinds of stuff happens and then they want to blame the church that pastored the Bible God one day just didn't follow the simple directions that the Almighty God told you to follow if you'd like to wait make your way prosperous and live a successful life God if I didn't preach anything else tonight God told you what to do about it praise God I'd like a better amen amen amen now I said there's a couple of things I want to go back to let's go back for a minute if you will to verse 3 every place that the sole of your foot shall tread upon that have I given thee that have I given thee now this I've Illustrated this before but if you were to look at say mark 11 22 and 23 now mark 11 says that you can have what you say so it's almost like this idea of planting your foot down and marching around the city like God told Jeff Joshua at Jericho and other places wherever you place your foot I will give you that it's like a Dominion March but I can't find it put your foot down to gain something other than put your foot down to get sin but you don't I mean in the New Testament is it changed from the foot to the mouth now in the New Testament it says no don't let any corrupt communication come out of your mouth life and death is not in the power of the foot life and death is in the power of the tongue it didn't say you can have what you want you said you can have what you say Amen and in mark 11:23 it says you say unto this mountain you don't go March around it you say unto this mountain be thou cast in the sea if you believe in your heart what you said when you say it and you can pay you continue to believe in your heart after you said whatsoever you say it you can have whatsoever you sayeth Amen yes so this Authority I can go on there's there's many other verses you know about speaking your outwardly your trust in God your trust in God I know sometimes we faith people get labeled as kind of like name it and claim it and you know but that's probably the nicest thing I'm called nowadays I kind of take that as a compliment praise to God but it's not a matter if you just play in God and name what you want and claiming what you want and doing what you want it's a matter of using your voice and putting claim to the promises that God promised you in the Holy Scriptures this is one of the reasons this is one of the ways that you get to have victory this is one of the walks to victory is that you do what God said and you trust him to bring it to pass now if you were with Joshua imagine telling that many people including probably teenagers and everybody I don't know imagine that many people marching around a city seven days in a row and told not to make a sound not one sound don't now don't you know what don't you know what the city's saying what do you think they were napping for Southern days they're hanging over the wall they're laughing at God's people they're mocking God's people amen and imagine imagine getting that many people to obey the leader all on one day let alone seven in a row and especially when he tells you to shut up and don't speak again don't even utter a sound Joshua said until I tell you that God says it's okay as good as you are at living word that would not fly here I'd be in every cult book written everywhere are you kidding me I told you to shut up I'm a Meany you know God would never say such a thing he's a loving God but you see God wasn't being mean to them God probably wasn't even tired of hearing their cry God said you be quiet and obey me and go March your foot around that city and I'll give it to you nobody anticipated I don't know Joshua knew it was coming or not I don't know I don't think so but nobody in I don't think they could see walking around that city how we gonna beat these enemy they got Spears they got catapults they got a fortified walled city how are we gonna get in there we've been marching around the desert for forty years I mean we're kind of tired thirsty hungry you know what's going on here I think a lot of those people in our reason I really believe one of the reasons Moses and those many of those under him did not cross the promised the the Jordan into the Promised Land is because they didn't have the heart to fight for that city they want to God just give it to him they come back with a complaint the Giants are tall the city walls are high you mean we got a fight for this I know a lot of Christians like that you know they just think you've God should just give it to me I shouldn't have to pray to get an answer I shouldn't have to ever fast and pray that be uncomfortable and I'd be really hungry and and and to come out to the church house you got to be kidding me man and I got to find a way to get blessing God and still do what I want but see those people don't live successful prosperous lives and again prosperity is not just money his beating diabeetus is beating cancers beating depression is keeping your kids from the gangbangers and and the prostitutes and on goes the store that's prosperous limit any amens and here at all tonight praise God got it so God does his part he's told us what to do to obey Him and then the power of God comes so I wanted to get you straight in your mind I know you probably know this but I wondered straight that in the New Covenant we no longer we no longer place our foot to claim the promised land that promises of God that authority has been transferred to our mouths we open our mouth remember what the Holy Spirit said to one of the churches in the New Testaments record he said you have God called those things that are not as though they were and you have that same spirit of faith you don't have the same level of faith that God does you have the same spirit of faith do you understand the difference I'm sure the spirit of faith calls those things that are not as though they were that's not pretending it's certainly not like you know the people that that you know they call things that are as though they weren't we don't do that it is what it is but doesn't have to stay that way real faith people don't pretend like it isn't what it is you know it's like the doctors say you got a big lump is cancerous it's gonna yeah you know it's probably gonna kill you and you say all I don't receive that well we're looking at it we're glad you don't receive it in here but do you know what's growing out here hi I don't believe it's there of course it's there it is what it is if you can't label the giant how you going to go after it you can't just be grapes and honey and no it can't just be sweetness this is the earth man amen so true true people of faith trust God that's what we're talking about so when it says we call those things that are not as though they were it doesn't mean that we pretend like we're creative gods or that we're just we just think we're God or we just make up anything we want start saying it and claim it you won't find verses for that what it means is we're reading the book the promises of God and we're calling those promises to come to us we're calling those things that are not they're not here yet we're speaking as though they were amen praise God they're pretty simple actually amen so that's the power that we have in the New Testament so if we want to be victorious which is the opposite of defeated you know then we're going to have to do this the way God said because in case you haven't noticed we're not playing a football game here where there are happy winners in a poor loser or even happy losers because with every game somebody has to win and somebody has to lose with the really strange occasional in some sports they let you tie and but the same is true with combat you get in a battle somebody at the end of the day the end of three days the end of the week whatever there's going to be a winner and there's going to be a loser yes called a battle Amen when we say we got the victory we means we won the battle but for some reason it seems like modern people want victory no battle they want the medals and rewards of victory but never pull the trigger one time I'm speaking spiritually of course not not weaponry amen and so praise God it is the Lord who always gives us the victory but that's just on a given because you bear the name of Jesus Christ you and I must trust our God too to keep putting us in the victory circle and do the things that make for victory and not keep working the formula for defeat amen I spent a long time ago but I played sports in high school you know football and basketball and and baseball now my grandkids think I'm just old and and old and so they were playing basketball I said let me shoot a hoop and and they said grandpa really I said yeah just let me try so I kept backing up and backing up and backing up and they said grandpa you should stop right there you like you're already gonna embarrass yourself so I flung it made a really nice Swisher for him from way back and then I taught him my old trick where I used to go like this and make a basket and they were like oh my god old people can do that now they didn't say that or I would have oiled them but you could see they didn't have to speak it these said it now I never I make a point with this I don't ever remember playing sports through those years when I was a young man and ever having the coach when you lost a game saying that's great just repeat everything you did next week anybody plays sports in here besides me did your coach ever tell you that great loss let's just repeat it next week so there's no reason to practice this week he already got defeat down huh I never heard that out of him instead whichever sport you're talking about man we reviewed the plays we went over who did what right who did what wrong why did we lose so we could try to assure that we did not get defeated again and that's how God wants to always give us the victory not without the battle read your Bible the great story in the Lions Den happened because there was a Lions Den and a man went in it that really didn't deserve to be there but he did but he came out of the Lions Den the great the greatest victory stories in our Bible are about people who went through horrible battles while God was alive now nowadays people talk like gods dead but while God was alive they went through all of that God knew he was gonna get him out of the Lions Den when that army Pharaoh's army chased and chased down you know God's kids to kill him God knew he was gonna split the Red Sea why'd he wait for the last minute God knew he was gonna get those three Hebrew children out of that and I'll be that Crematory white refers we're not in the beginning of the last day we're in the last of the last days you're blessed to have this book you're blessed to have this insect you're blessed to have this forewarning and they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb by the word of their testimony guess who wins man I like Church I like preaching and teaching the Word of God I even like you praise God thank God for you God's people listen when we started this I was telling you that this USB Drive is available to you this series are so several messages on here not just one about becoming an overcomer that's what I'm dealing with right now is trying to teach people you can win you will win it's God's a will for you to win this is not just a pep talk scripture after scripture after scripture Bible story after a Bible story teaches us how God always wins his kids always come out on top and no matter what battle you and I are facing right now praise God this is what it's all about winning and not losing standing up and not staying down so get this series get on the you know the website bookstore call us email there's all kinds of ways we want you to have it how to be an overcomer if you don't know my jesus you invite him into your life right now most everything we teach will not work for people that don't know Christ so just say lord come live in me and make me a Christian and then you call us and we're going to tell you how to live your best life now I promise you that see on the next broadcast send an offering and pray for us in Jesus name [Music] [Music]

Channel: Mark T. Barclay

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Length: 28min 30sec (1710 seconds)

Published: Mon Jun 08 2020