The Great Expectation: God Expects you to Win - June 22, 2008

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Submitted by La-Aja on Sun, 06/22/2008 - 21:05.
I have to say: I've been soooo hype to get this podcast out to you all!  This is definitely a message that the Body of Christ needs to hear.
 
When God wrote Christianity HE WROTE VICTORY, NOT DEFEAT!  However, most Christians have been taught that they are defeated before they even try to live for God.  Have you ever heard this: "aww, we all fall short" or "we won't be holy 'til we enter glory" or "God know's you're going to sin?" MAN! Where's the hope?!?  When you look in the Bible you don't see this type of talk, you see examples of victory.  Look at King David, when he trusted in the Lord, he was always victorious in battle.  The woman that had been bleeding, EXPECTED that when she touched just the hem of Christ's garment she would have victory over her disease. 
 
How can we have victory over sin if we don't expect victory? We know more about what to do when we sin, than what to do to keep us from sinning.   It's so sad, before people even trying to live for the Lord they are already content with coming in 2nd or 3rd place. They don't know that God expects us to come in 1st place - to have the victory.   
 
The amazing thing about God is that HE GIVES US HIS POWER, HIS SPIRIT, WHICH ENABLES US TO GET THE VICTORY!  Pastor Cox shows you how the very Word of God breaks the chains of defeatism in the Christian's life and gives us His Spirit to overcome our flesh, the world, and the evil one.  Amen!
 

 

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The Great Expectation: God Expects you to Win - June 22, 2008

Submitted by Jon Council (not verified) on Tue, 08/19/2008 - 21:53.

I can pretty much summarize why Pastor Cox is having to preach this sermon in the first place. He's preaching it for the same reason the Lord had so much trouble out of Israel, to the point they rejected their (and our) messiah when He was right there in front of them.

Because, the church has been in some form of rebellion and apostacy ever since the beginning of this nation's history. Whenever there's defeat, it's due to sin in the camp. Just look at Joshua and what happened at Ai. Even the fear and lack of confidence is due to the realization that God is NOT with us, and that opens us up to defeat. We are in the last days, where the tares have outgrown the wheat, but because the church leadership does not practice church discipline, nothing is being done to weed out the fakes. This hampers God's ability to work through the church, due to the fact the "leaven" has infected the whole body.


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