Victory In Jesus
Introduction:
Turn with me in the hymnal that is in your pew. Turn to page _________. This is my sermon outline tonight. Victory In Jesus!
If there is anything we need today it is Victory! Amen!
This old Hymn was written in 1939.
Author E. M. Bartlett.
Victory is defined as The defeat of an Enemy.
· We may desire Victory Over Osama Ben Ladan today.
· We may desire Victory Over Terriorism today.
· But what we need is not Victory Over but Victory In Jesus!
· According to the definition
· Victory In Jesus is Defeat of the Enemy through the Power of Jesus Christ
The writer of Chronicles tells us
1 Chron 29:11
11 Thine, O LORD, is the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the victory
Isaiah said
Isa 25:8
8 The Lord GOD will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord GOD will wipe away tears from off all faces;
Paul Wrote
1 Cor 15:54-57
54 So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.
55 O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?
56 The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law.
57 But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
KJV
Now listen to what E. M. Bartlett was inspired to compose
1)
I heard an old, old story,
How a Savior came from Glory.
Oh, do you remember when you heard the old, old story.
I remember when I first heard the old, old story.
Here is the book my mother would read to me when I was just a little boy. She would open this Big Red Book and read to me
· IN THE BEGINNING God said . . .
· Fall of Adam and Eve
· Noah and the Flood
When I grew older the old, old story became a personal experience when I read of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.
I read how the Savior came from Glory!
1 John 4:9-10
that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.
10 Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
John 3:16
16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
DO YOU REMEMBER WHEN YOU FIRST HEARD THE OLD, OLD STORY?
DON’T YOU THANK GOD YOU WERE TOLD THE OLD, OLD STORY?
I thank God Jesus was willing to come from Glory just to forgive me.
just to cleanse me.
I thank God Jesus was willing to come from Glory JUST FOR YOU!!
How He gave His life on Calvary,
To Save a Wretch like me;
We know the story. The Gospels tell it this way.
Luke 23:33-34
33 And when they were come to the place, which is called Calvary, there they crucified him, and the malefactors, one on the right hand, and the other on the left.
34 Then said Jesus, Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do.
John 10:15
I lay down my life for the sheep.
John 10:17
I lay down my life, that I might take it again.
I heard about His Groaning,
Of His Precious Blood’s Atoning,
Mark 15:37
37 And Jesus cried with a loud voice, and gave up the ghost.
Matt 27:46-47
46 And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?
47 Some of them that stood there, when they heard that, said, This man calleth for Elias.
Matt 27:50
50 Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost.
John 19:34
34 But one of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side, and forthwith came there out blood and water.
Heb 9:22
22 And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission.
Then I Repented of my Sins
And Won the Victory.
When I heard this Old, Old Story I Repented of my Sins.
And I Won the Victory. Praise God for the Victory.
2)
I heard about His Healing,
Of His Cleansing Power revealing,
Mark 1:40-42
40 And there came a leper to him, beseeching him, and kneeling down to him, and saying unto him, If thou wilt, thou canst make me clean.
41 And Jesus, moved with compassion, put forth his hand, and touched him, and saith unto him, I will; be thou clean.
42 And as soon as he had spoken, immediately the leprosy departed from him, and he was cleansed.
1 John 1:9
9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
How He made the Lame to Walk again
And Caused the Blind to See;
Do you remember the Blind in Mark chapter 8
Mark 8:22-25
22 And he (Jesus) cometh to Bethsaida; and they bring a blind man unto him, and besought him to touch him.
23 And he took the blind man by the hand, and led him out of the town; and when he had spit on his eyes, and put his hands upon him, he asked him if he saw ought.
24 And he looked up, and said, I see men as trees, walking.
25 After that he put his hands again upon his eyes, and made him look up: and he was restored, and saw every man clearly.
When Jesus has led you by the hand and removed your spiritual blindness then you will sing:
And then I cried Dear Jesus,
Come and Heal my broken spirit,
That is when You asked Him to come into your life.
Ps 34:18
18 The LORD is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit.
And somehow Jesus came and brought
To me the Victory.
John 1:12
12 But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:
3)
I heard about a Mansion
He has build for me in Glory,
John 14:1-3
14:1 Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me.
2 In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.
3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.
And I heard about the Streets of Gold
Beyond the Crystal Sea;
Rev 21:10-23
10 And he carried me away in the spirit to a great and high mountain, and shewed me that great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God,
11 Having the glory of God: and her light was like unto a stone most precious, even like a jasper stone, clear as crystal;
12 And had a wall great and high, and had twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels, and names written thereon, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel:
14 And the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and in them the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.
18 And the building of the wall of it was of jasper: and the city was pure gold, like unto clear glass.
19 And the foundations of the wall of the city were garnished with all manner of precious stones.
21 And the twelve gates were twelve pearls; every several gate was of one pearl: and the street of the city was pure gold, as it were transparent glass.
22 And I saw no temple therein: for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it.
23 And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof.
About the Angels singing,
And the Old Redemption Story,
Rev 13:8
the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.
And some sweet day I’ll sing up there
The song of Victory
Close with Congregation singing the Chorus
Chorus:
O Victory in Jesus,
My Savior, forever,
He sought me and he Bought me
With His redeeming Blood;
He Loved me ere I knew Him,
And all my Love is due Him,
He Plunged me to Victory,
Beneath the Cleansing Flood.
