THE OVERCOMERS

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                      OVERCOMERS

Our churches are made up of TWO COMPANIES of people-- one  within the  other. 
  Like an expectant mother, there is a  smaller  body within the one which is 
presently carrying it.

This  SMALLER group are the OVERCOMERS of the seven  churches  in the 
Revelation of Jesus Christ.

They  are INDIVIDUALS within the corporate body who  are  meeting God's  
requirements for their lives in the day they  are  living.  They  have made 
Jesus their LORD.  They are more  concerned  with what His Word requires of 
them than they are about church  buildings,  ceremonies, programs and social 
activities connected  with the present set up.

The  corporate  body is NOT MEETING  those  requirements--  never has--  
never will.  It has a huge "machine" running, and  it  requires so much 
energy (money, time, maintenance, etc.) to keep it going-- there is very 
little being accomplished other than  fueling and maintaining machinery.  

Personal  consecration to the Will and Nature of God in the  life of the 
individual has fallen by the wayside.  (Whatever  happened to  prayer 
meetings where people "consecrated" themselves to  the Will  of God?  That 
energy is now required to fuel a  "machine".)  We  must now sign petitions, 
march in a demonstration, and  write our congressman, instead of "praying 
through" to personal  victory.  

Run-of-the-mill Christianity will never attain to becoming an *Overcomer*, 
and there are very few promises given to this class of believers.  The 
promises are to the *Overcomers*.  *Overcoming* is not as easy as it sounds, 
and we can certainly not do it in our own strength.  We must have the Spirit 
of God actively working in our lives, guiding, strengthening, energizing us.
 
*Overcomers* are usually outside the camp of organized religion-- because 
they simply do not fit into the modus operandi.  "As many as are led by the 
Spirit of God-- "

"And they shall be mine, saith the Lord of Hosts, in that day when I make up 
my jewels--".

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