Victory The thrill of victory 12 and under

Victory

The thrill of victory • 12 and under baseball • Junior High Football • High School state champions • Oklahoma National Champions 2000 • - Baby it doesn’t get any sweeter than this - 63% of T. V. on the game Joy for self - joy for team mates

Road to victory • Good coaches • Belief in the coaching staff • Belief in the system • Belief you can win if you do all that the coaches tell you to do • Believe in your team mate • Work every day to get better • Weights - running - spring - summer - prepare for each game - watch films & study the opponents • Execute - offense, defense, kicking game

Victory in Jesus • Sweetest of all - joy for eternity - crown unfading • Individual race - but many may win their race • Joy for self & joy for all the others who make it to the goal

Enemies overcome • Satan - accuser, deceiver, tempter Rev. 12: 9, 10; Jn. 8: 44; Matt. 4: 1 - • Flesh - selfish & unlawful desires & passions - • Sin, death, persecution, false religion Sexual sins, idolatry, personal animosity, partyism, intoxication & excess, Gal. 5: 19 -21 The world - influence to conform to rebellion from God - Satan’s domain - Lust of flesh, eye & pride of life Rom. 12: 2; 1 Jn. 2: 15; Jn. 14: 30; 2 Cor. 4: 4; Jas. 4: 4

Power For Victory • God’s Love - Grace, Providence, Promises • Jesus’ Sacrifice - Example, Teaching, Intercession 1 Cor. 15: 57 but thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. • Holy Spirit’s Guidance - revelation, confirmation, training Gal. 5: 16 -17 But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not carry out the desire of the flesh. For the flesh sets its desire against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; for these are in opposition to one another, so that you may not do the things that you please. • Walking implies: dependence, consistency, progress Our faith & obedience - 1 Jn. 5: 4 For whatever is born of God overcomes the world; and this is the victory that has overcome the world--our faith.

Victory - Triumph • nike - victory 1 x, 1 Jn. 5: 4; nikos - victory 4 x - to utterly vanquish: justice to victory Matt. 12: 20; victory over death, 1 Cor. 15: 54, 55, 57 • Victory - defeat of an enemy or opponent; success in a struggle against difficulties or an obstacle; the state of having triumphed • Triumph - to be victorious or successful; win; to rejoice over a success or victory; exult; to receive honors upon return from a victory in ancient Rome • SYNONYMS: victory, triumph. These nouns denote the fact of winning or the state of having won in a war, struggle, or competition. Victory, the most general term, refers esp. to the final defeat of an enemy or opponent; Triumph denotes a victory that is esp. noteworthy because it is decisive, significant, or spectacular

Triumph - victory Parade • thriambeuō - to triumph, leads in triumph 1 x, triumphed over, 1 x, Cor. 2: 14 -16 a But thanks be to God, who always leads us in triumph in Christ, and manifests through us the sweet aroma of the knowledge of Him in every place. For we are a fragrance of Christ to God among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing; to the one an aroma from death to death, to the other an aroma from life to life. 2

Exult • exult - kauchaomai - to boast; glory; rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant Rom. 5: 2, 3 through whom also we have obtained our introduction by faith into this grace in which we stand; and we exult in hope of the glory of God. And not only this, but we also exult in our tribulations, knowing that tribulation brings about perseverance; Rom. 5: 11 And not only this, but we also exult in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the reconciliation. - Jubilant in connection with hope of glorification - Triumphant that our trials produce need perseverance - Rejoice because God is for us & through Christ saves us

Exult 1 Pet. 1: 3 -5 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to His great mercy has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, to obtain an inheritance which is imperishable and undefiled and will not fade away, reserved in heaven for you, who are protected by the power of God through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time. 1 Pet. 1: 6 -9 In this you greatly rejoice, even though now for a little while, if necessary, you have been distressed by various trials, that the proof of your faith, being more precious than gold which is perishable, even though tested by fire, may be found to result in praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ; and though you have not seen Him, you love Him, and though you do not see Him now, but believe in Him, you greatly rejoice with joy inexpressible and full of glory, obtaining as the outcome of your faith the salvation of your souls. - Living Hope - Inheritance - Greatly rejoice in victory by faith

Crown of Victory • crown - stephanos - that which surrounds, i. e. a crown, the wreath or garland given as a prize to victors in public games; metaph. the eternal blessedness given as a prize to the genuine servants of God & Christ: the crown - reward of the righteousness 1 Cor. 9: 25 And everyone who competes in the games exercises self-control in all things. They then do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable. 2 Tim. 4: 8 in the future there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will award to me on that day; and not only to me, but also to all who have loved His appearing. Jas 1: 12 Blessed is a man who perseveres under trial; for once he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life, which the Lord has promised to those who love Him. 1 Pet. 5: 4 And when the Chief Shepherd appears, you will receive the unfading crown of glory.

Crown of Victory Rev. 2: 10 'Do not fear what you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to cast some of you into prison, that you may be tested, and you will have tribulation ten days. Be faithful until death, and I will give you the crown of life. Rev. 3: 11 'I am coming quickly; hold fast what you have, in order that no one take your crown. 1 Thess. 2: 19 For who is our hope or joy or crown of exultation? Is it not even you, in the presence of our Lord Jesus at His coming?

Palm branches - rejoicing Rev. 7: 9 -10 After these things I looked, and behold, a great multitude, which no one could count, from every nation and all tribes and peoples and tongues, standing before throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, and palm branches were in their hands; and they cry out with a loud voice, saying, "Salvation [Victory] to our God who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb. " 11, 12 And all the angels were standing around the throne and around the elders and the four living creatures; and they fell on their faces before throne and worshiped God, saying, "Amen, blessing and glory and wisdom and thanksgiving and honor and power and might, be to our God forever and ever. Amen. "

Palm branches - rejoicing Rev. 7: 13 -17 13 And one of the elders answered, saying to me, "These who are clothed in the white robes, who are they, and from where have they come? " 14 And I said to him, "My lord, you know. " And he said to me, "These are the ones who come out of the great tribulation, and they have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. 15 "For this reason, they are before throne of God; and they serve Him day and night in His temple; and He who sits on the throne shall spread His tabernacle over them. 16 "They shall hunger no more, neither thirst anymore; neither shall the sun beat down on them, nor any heat; 17 for the Lamb in the center of the throne shall be their shepherd, and shall guide them to springs of the water of life; and God shall wipe every tear from their eyes. "

Harps of praise - victorious saints singing song of Moses and the Lamb Rev. 15: 1 -4 1 And I saw another sign in heaven, great and marvelous, seven angels who had seven plagues, which are the last, because in them the wrath of God is finished. 2 And I saw, as it were, a sea of glass mixed with fire, and those who had come off victorious from the beast and from his image and from the number of his name, standing on the sea of glass, holding harps of God. 3 And they sang the song of Moses the bond-servant of God and the song of the Lamb, saying, "Great and marvelous are Thy works, O Lord God, the Almighty; Righteous and true are Thy ways, Thou King of the nations. 4 "Who will not fear, O Lord, and glorify Thy name? For Thou alone art holy; For ALL THE NATIONS WILL COME AND WORSHIP BEFORE THEE, For Thy righteous acts have been revealed. "

Glorification Coming To Overcomers 2 Thess. 1: 9, 10 And these will pay the penalty of eternal destruction, away from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of His power, when He comes to be glorified in His saints on that day, and to be marveled at among all who have believed--for our testimony to you was believed. Rev. 21: 7, 8 “He who overcomes will inherit these things, and I will be his God and he will be My son. But for the cowardly and unbelieving and abominable and murderers and immoral persons and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their part will be in the lake that burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death. ” Rev. 12: 11 “And they overcame him because of the blood of the Lamb and because of the word of their testimony, and they even when faced with death.