p. 15 | Overcoming

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · May 13, 1908

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 34, No. 20.

Overcoming.

"THIS is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith." 1 John 5:4. Our faith is the victory. And he who has faith has victory. He does not have a partial victory, but he has "the victory that overcometh the world." That takes in everything against which we have to contend. And note that faith is the victory that overcometh. The overcoming is in the present tense. It is not a victory that has overcome the world or that at some future time will overcome the world, but that which overcometh the world now, this day. We can not overcome the world in the past, for the past is gone forever. Neither can we overcome in the future, for the future is always ahead of us. To-morrow is always a day in advance. That which we call to-morrow when it arrives is no longer to-morrow but to-day. "Behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation." Put off your salvation and victory over sin until to-morrow, and you will never be an overcomer. Attend to this work to-day, and you are safe. Many professors lead a lame Christian life all the time because they do not get the decided victory over sin to-day. This text plainly says that the King of Kings and Lord of Lords—even the Saviour Himself—is the only one who "hath immortality." Other texts throuout the Scriptures show that He bestows this immortality upon those alone who will accept it as a gift in exchange for their worthless sins.