Overcome Evil with Good
First15 Devotional
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🗓️ 18 June 2023
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
In our final devotional of this week long series on the marks of a true Christian, today we’re looking at God’s command to overcome evil with good. May God show us the pathway to his power today, and illuminate specific ways we can overcome evil with good today.
Our Scripture for today comes from Romans 12:21, and today's worship is Let There Be Light by Hillsong Worship.
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Live a life marked by faith.
The Bible has so much to say about our faith. And if I’m being honest, a lot of it is really confusing.
In Matthew 21 Jesus tells us that we’ll receive anything we ask for, if we have faith. Hebrews 11 tells us that it’s impossible to please God if we don’t have faith. 2 Corinthians 5 tells us that it is by faith that we “see” the path forward, and not with our physical sight.
But when I look into my own heart, I come face to face with ways I doubt on a daily basis.
I often trust in my own strength, lean on my own understanding, and seek to provide for myself with my own power rather than relying on the strength, empowering, and provision of God.
But, I also know that simply trying to have more faith doesn’t work either.
This is why I wrote a four-week devotional, Faith, to unpack what the Bible says about living a life marked by an authentic faith.
Faith isn’t something we muster up on our own. It’s not something we produce or create. Faith is the natural response to seeing, experiencing, and believing in God’s faithfulness.
And the pathway to greater faith is greater experience, greater understanding, and a true heart-knowledge of God’s faithfulness to us that guides our thoughts, emotions, and actions.
We've launched Volume 6 of our First15 Devotional Series, Faith, created to guide you into transformative experiences with God’s faithfulness and empower you to start living a life marked by authentic faith.
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| 0:00.0 | In our final episode of this week-long series on the marks of a true Christian, today we're |
| 0:10.9 | looking at God's command to overcome evil with good. May God show us the pathway to His |
| 0:17.1 | power today and illuminate specific ways we can overcome evil with good today. Welcome |
| 0:23.6 | to the first 15 podcast. The world is filled with the destruction that sin and separation from God |
| 0:33.6 | has caused. All around us are signs of the enemy's hand working tirelessly to keep God's children |
| 0:41.0 | from the abundant life our Father longs to give. Even when looking at the state of the church, |
| 0:48.0 | you will see lives still impacted by either their own sin or the sin of others. |
| 0:54.4 | Reflect for a minute on your own life. What are your struggles? What are the struggles you see |
| 1:00.7 | in the lives of other believers around you? What about the world around you? The last command |
| 1:06.7 | God gives us in the Romans 12 passage we've been studying this week says, do not overcome by evil |
| 1:14.0 | but overcome evil with good. The idea of overcoming the world is a consistent concept throughout |
| 1:21.8 | the entire New Testament. Scripture is clear that through the death of Christ we've been given the |
| 1:28.9 | power and authority to overcome the work of the enemy in our own lives and lead others to freedom. |
| 1:36.9 | Revelation 12 11 says, and they have conquered him by the blood of the lamb and by the word of their |
| 1:45.2 | testimony for they loved not their lives even to death. Conquering the enemy is our destiny as God's |
| 1:54.4 | people and Matthew 10 6 through 8, Jesus says, but go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel |
| 2:03.2 | and proclaim as you go saying, the kingdom of heaven is at hand. Heal the sick, raise the dead, |
| 2:10.8 | cleanse lepers, cast out demons. You received without paying, give without paying. |
| 2:18.4 | God gives us an important piece of his battle plan for the war against evil in Romans 12. |
| 2:25.0 | We are to triumph over our enemy with good as our weapon. God doesn't fight evil with evil, |
| 2:31.6 | he fights evil with love. It's the love of God that will lead you to victory over the enemy |
| 2:38.8 | in your own life and it's God's love that will be the weapon you use to lead other people to |
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