You Can't Be Defeated By Many Enemies

I. EXORDIUM:

Can you be defeated by your enemies?

No. 1 John 5:4

1 John 5:4 (Amplified Bible)

For whatever is born of God is victorious over the world; and this is the victory that conquers the world, even our faith.

II. AUDIENCE PROFILE:

Believers

III. OBJECTIVES:

To prove that GOD will never leave us nor forget us, He is always victorious in us that lives within us.

Deuteronomy 31:6 (Amplified Bible)

Be strong, courageous, and firm; fear not nor be in terror before them, for it is the Lord your God Who goes with you; He will not fail you or forsake you.

Hebrews 13:5 (Amplified Bible)

Let your character or moral disposition be free from love of money [including greed, avarice, lust, and craving for earthly possessions] and be satisfied with your present [circumstances and with what you have]; for He [God] Himself has said, I will not in any way fail you nor give you up nor leave you without support. [I will] not, [I will] not, [I will] not in any degree leave you helpless nor forsake nor let [you] down (relax My hold on you)! [Assuredly not!]

IV. TEXT:

Leviticus 26:8 (Amplified Bible)

Five of you shall chase a hundred, and a hundred of you shall put ten thousand to flight; your enemies shall fall before you by the sword.

V. THESIS:

Praise, worship and thank You very much LORD JESUS for You are victorious within me, made me more than a conqueror and I enjoy and celebrate Your Presence within me.

1 Corinthians 15:57 (Amplified Bible)

But thanks be to God, Who gives us the victory [making us conquerors] through our Lord Jesus Christ.

Romans 8:37 (Amplified Bible)

Yet amid all these things we are more than conquerors and gain a surpassing victory through Him Who loved us.

Jeremiah 8:22 (Amplified Bible)

Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there? Why then is not the health of the daughter of my people restored? [Because Zion no longer enjoyed the presence of the Great Physician!]

VI. TITLE:

You can't be defeated by many enemies

VII. EXPLICATION:

A. Author: Moses

B. Keywords: Access and Holiness

C. Name: derived from tribe of Levi

D. Central Person: high priest

E. Subject Matter: Digest of Divine Laws

F. Central Theme: Holy (mentioned 80 times (NIV)

G. Companion Book: Hebrews

H. Date of Writing: 1490 B.C.

VIII. MAIN BODY:

Leviticus 26:8 (Amplified Bible)

Five of you shall chase a hundred, and a hundred of you shall put ten thousand to flight; your enemies shall fall before you by the sword.

A. Numbers are irrelevant to the LORD

"Five of you shall chase a hundred, and a hundred of you shall put ten thousand to flight;"

Numbers 14:9 (Amplified Bible)

Only do not rebel against the Lord, neither fear the people of the land, for they are bread for us. Their defense and the shadow [of protection] is removed from over them, but the Lord is with us. Fear them not.

Deuteronomy 28:7 (Amplified Bible)

The Lord shall cause your enemies who rise up against you to be defeated before your face; they shall come out against you one way and flee before you seven ways.

Deuteronomy 32:30 (Amplified Bible)

How could one have chased a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, except their Rock had sold them, and the Lord had delivered them up?

Even the gates of hell cannot prevail against GOD, because Greater is the LORD JESUS CHRIST that dwells in me.

Matthew 16:18 (Amplified Bible)

And I tell you, you are Peter [Greek, Petros—a large piece of rock], and on this rock [Greek, petra—a huge rock like Gibraltar] I will build My church, and the gates of Hades (the powers of the infernal region) shall not overpower it [or be strong to its detriment or hold out against it].

Because the Rock of all Ages dwells within us. Fill your mind with this!

1 John 4:4 (Amplified Bible)

Little children, you are of God [you belong to Him] and have [already] defeated and overcome them [the agents of the antichrist], because He Who lives in you is greater (mightier) than he who is in the world.

1 John 5:4 (Amplified Bible)

For whatever is born of God is victorious over the world; and this is the victory that conquers the world, even our faith.

B. Your enemies will fall by drought (sword)

"your enemies shall fall before you by the sword"

Psalms 81:14-15 (Amplified Bible)

Speedily then I would subdue their enemies and turn My hand against their adversaries.

[Had Israel listened to Me in Egypt, then] those who hated the Lord would have come cringing before Him, and their defeat would have lasted forever.

1 Samuel 17:45-47 (Amplified Bible)

Then said David to the Philistine, You come to me with a sword, a spear, and a javelin, but I come to you in the name of the Lord of hosts, the God of the ranks of Israel, Whom you have defied.