THE THIRD PART: 24 CRUCIAL LINES IN THE BIBLE
The Overcomers
Message Three
The Producing of the Overcomers (1)
Scriptures Reading: Rev. 2:18-29; 3:1-22; Rom. 12:1-2; 1 Kings 7:15-22; Matt. 13:33; Rev. 2:7b; 1:10; 4:2; 21:10; 14:4
I. As the sevenfold intensified Spirit Christ produces the overcomers by saving them from the things related to the degradation of the church—Rev. 2:18-29. (CWWL, 1994-1997, vol. 4, “The Secret of God’s Organic Salvation—“The Spirit Himself with Our Spirit”,” msg. 6)
II. Christ as the sevenfold intensified Spirit worked to rescue the believers in the church in Thyatira from idol worship, fornication, demonic teachings, and the deep things of Satan to be the overcomers so that they may be rewarded with the authority over the nations in the kingdom age—vv. 18-29: (CWWL, 1994-1997, vol. 4, “The Divine and Mystical Realm,” msg. 5)
A. In Matthew 13:33 Catholicism is typified by a woman who leavened the “three measures of meal,” the entire teaching concerning the element of Christ in His person and in His work. (CWWL, 1991-1992, vol. 4, “The Overcomers,” msg. 4)
B. Catholicism is portrayed as the woman Jezebel who calls herself a prophetess, teaching and leading the people of God, even with “the deep things of Satan”—Rev. 2:20, 24. (CWWL, 1991-1992, vol. 4, “The Overcomers,” msg. 4)
C. The Catholic Church is built up as a religious hierarchy with the pope as the head. (CWWL, 1991-1992, vol. 4, “The Overcomers,” msg. 4)
D. Revelation 17 refers to the Roman Catholic Church as “the great harlot” and also refers to her as “Mystery, Babylon the Great, the mother of the harlots and the abominations of the earth” —vv. 1, 5. (CWWL, 1991-1992, vol. 4, “The Overcomers,” msg. 4)
E. Revelation 17:6 reveals that the Catholic Church martyrs the saints and the witnesses of Jesus. (CWWL, 1991-1992, vol. 4, “The Overcomers,” msg. 4)
F. Eventually, the Catholic Church will be hated, made desolate, and burned by Antichrist and his ten kings at the beginning of the great tribulation—17:6. (CWWL, 1991-1992, vol. 4, “The Overcomers,” msg. 4)
G. To overcome such a heretical religion is by keeping the faith in Christ’s divine and human person and all His works in His incarnation, crucifixion, resurrection, ascension, descension, and second appearing to gain Christ as the morning star for a reward—2 Tim. 4:7c; Rev. 2:26. (CWWL, 1991-1992, vol. 4, “The Overcomers,” msg. 4)
III. Christ as the sevenfold intensified Spirit worked to revive the believers in the church in Sardis from their dead and dying condition to be the overcomers so that they may be rewarded with walking with the Lord in white and with not having their names erased from the book of life but confessed by the Lord before the Father and His angels in the kingdom age—3:1-6: (CWWL, 1994-1997, vol. 4, “The Divine and Mystical Realm,” msg. 5)
A. We must conquer the deadness of Sardis by becoming the shining stars—the messengers—filled with the sevenfold intensified Spirit—vv. 1-2; 1:20. (1997 TGC, msg. 4)
B. To overcome spiritual death is to be watchful and establish the things of life, which are about to die, and not to be defiled with the stain of spiritual death—3:2, 4. (CWWL, 1991-1992, vol. 4, “The Overcomers,” msg. 3)
C. We can overcome the deadness of Sardis in the Body life by presenting our bodies a living sacrifice to God and not being fashioned according to this age but being transformed by the renewing of the mind—Rom. 12:1-2. (1997 TGC, msg. 4)
IV. Christ as the sevenfold intensified Spirit worked to encourage the believers in the church in Philadelphia to hold fast what they have that no one take their crown to be the overcomers so that they may be rewarded to be a pillar in the temple of God with the name of God and the name of the New Jerusalem and the new name of the Lord written upon them in the kingdom age—Rev. 3:7-13: (CWWL, 1994-1997, vol. 4, “The Divine and Mystical Realm,” msg. 5)
A. We need to do our best for the Lord with what we have, which is to do with “a little power” that we have. (1997 TGC, msg. 4)
B. We need to overcome the trend of not keeping the Lord’s word, and the tide of denying the Lord’s name. (CWWL, 1991-1992, vol. 4, “The Overcomers,” msg. 5)
C. We need to follow the Lamb wherever He may go, because the Lord has given the Lord’s recovery an opened door worldwide which no one can shut—v. 8; 14:4. (1997 TGC, msg. 4)
D. The overcomers in Philadelphia will be made pillars in the temple of God—3:12; 1 Kings 7:15-22. (CWWL, 1991-1992, vol. 4, “The Overcomers,” msg. 5)
V. Christ as the sevenfold intensified Spirit worked to awake the believers in the church in Laodicea from their lukewarm and Christless condition, exhorting them to pay the price for the refined gold, white garments, and eyesalve and to open their door to the knocking Lord to be the overcomers so that they may be rewarded to sit on the throne of the Lord in the kingdom age—Rev. 3:14-22: (CWWL, 1994-1997, vol. 4, “The Divine and Mystical Realm,” msg. 5)
A. We must hate and abhor the pride and boast of being wealthy and rich in the vain doctrinal knowledge—v. 17a. (CWWL, 1991-1992, vol. 4, “The Overcomers,” msg. 5)
B. We must pay the price to gain the processed Triune God in an experiential way—v. 18. (1997 TGC, msg. 4)
C. We must open ourselves to the Lord, who is shut outside the door of the church in lukewarmness to enjoy Him as our feast—v. 20. (CWWL, 1991-1992, vol. 4, “The Overcomers,” msg. 5)
D. We must repent of our lukewarmness and be zealous, boiling, burning, that thereby we may regain the enjoyment of the reality of Christ—vv. 15-16, 20. (Holy Bible Recovery Version, Rev. 3:19, footnote 1)
VI. Christ as the sevenfold intensified Spirit saves the believers from the degradation by His speaking and by the participation of the overcoming saints who are living in their spirit drawn by the Lamb—2:7b; 1:10; 4:2; 21:10; 14:4. (CWWL, 1994-1997, vol. 4, “The Secret of God’s Organic Salvation—“The Spirit Himself with Our Spirit”,” msg. 6)