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By the grace of God, we are overcomers...Here's an article to remind us of our Inheritance entitled "An Overcoming Spirit" by Dr. Audrey Drummonds • Holy Spirit
2 Corinthians 2:14-
"Now thanks be unto God, which always causes us to triumph (a victory parade) in Christ, and maketh manifest the savor (aroma, fragrance) of his knowledge (God's presence) by us in every place (a climate or atmosphere)" (KJV).
"But thanks be to God, Who in Christ always leads us in triumph [as trophies of Christ's victory] and through us spreads and makes evident the fragrance of the knowledge of God everywhere, For we are the sweet fragrance of Christ [which exhales] unto God, [discernible alike] among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing: To the latter it is an aroma [wafted] from death to death [a fatal odor, the smell of doom]; to the former it is an aroma from life to life [a vital fragrance, living and fresh]. And who is qualified (fit and sufficient) for these things? [Who is able for such a ministry? We?] For we are not, like so many, [like hucksters making a trade of] peddling God's Word [shortchanging and adulterating the divine message]; but like [men] of sincerity and the purest motive, as [commissioned and sent] by God, we speak [His message] in Christ (the Messiah), in the [very] sight and presence of God." (2 Cor. 2: 14-17 AMP)
There is an aroma of His knowledge, His presence manifested by us as the climate or atmosphere around us. These verses are not talking about a people that are in a survival mode, waiting and pleading on Jesus to rapture them out or to take away their trial. This is not an attitude of deliverance from the circumstance, but an attitude of triumphal victory. Paul is using words that would have been familiar to the Romans of having a triumphal march that would be seen after the victory of a battle throwing roses in the streets as the soldiers and generals would parade in their chariots publicly down the streets. Paul is trying to tell us that Jesus Christ has already triumphantly won the battle of our circumstance and that we are the paraded aroma of that victory. He has already overcome making an open display of demonic powers.
1 Corinthians 13: 12-13
"For now we are looking in a mirror that gives only a dim (blurred) reflection [of reality as in a riddle or enigma], but then [when perfection comes] we shall see in reality and face to face! Now I know in part (imperfectly), but then I shall know and understand fully and clearly, even in the same manner as I have been fully and clearly known and understood [by God]. And so faith, hope, love abide [faith--conviction and belief respecting man's relation to God and divine things; hope--joyful and confident expectation of eternal salvation; love--true affection for God and man, growing out of God's love for and in us], these three; but the greatest of these is love."
Everything in our atmosphere can be shaken except faith, hope, and love. These cannot be taken away by external circumstances. No matter what areas of our life come and go; money, people, health, circumstance changes, etc. what keeps us is not these things but the internal presence of: faith, hope, and love. When we join in the victory posture (join in the party celebration) of Christ in us, the position where all circumstances have been overcome by the blood of the lamb, and we live today as new creations in Him celebrating the victory of an overcomer, we change the atmosphere of the world we are established in by the attitude of our heart. We cannot help but have a joyful expectation of miracles.
This is the position that Paul is sharing in his letter to Corinth; while in the circumstance of worldly darkness and unknown, celebrate within you the victory that is found in Jesus Christ established by faith, hope, and His love.
Hope: An expectation with pleasure, or a joyful expectation with confidence. The inner being of oneself, Christ in you, is in a posture of joyful expectation and confidence.
Faith: The assurance (the confirmation, the title deed) of the things [we] hope for, being the proof of things [we] do not see and the conviction of their reality [faith perceiving as real fact what is not revealed to the senses].
Love: GOD, unselfish, unconditional, eternal.
2 Corinthians 2:14-
"Now thanks be unto God, which always causes us to triumph (a victory parade) in Christ, and maketh manifest the savor (aroma, fragrance) of his knowledge (God's presence) by us in every place (a climate or atmosphere)" (KJV).
"But thanks be to God, Who in Christ always leads us in triumph [as trophies of Christ's victory] and through us spreads and makes evident the fragrance of the knowledge of God everywhere, For we are the sweet fragrance of Christ [which exhales] unto God, [discernible alike] among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing: To the latter it is an aroma [wafted] from death to death [a fatal odor, the smell of doom]; to the former it is an aroma from life to life [a vital fragrance, living and fresh]. And who is qualified (fit and sufficient) for these things? [Who is able for such a ministry? We?] For we are not, like so many, [like hucksters making a trade of] peddling God's Word [shortchanging and adulterating the divine message]; but like [men] of sincerity and the purest motive, as [commissioned and sent] by God, we speak [His message] in Christ (the Messiah), in the [very] sight and presence of God." (2 Cor. 2: 14-17 AMP)
There is an aroma of His knowledge, His presence manifested by us as the climate or atmosphere around us. These verses are not talking about a people that are in a survival mode, waiting and pleading on Jesus to rapture them out or to take away their trial. This is not an attitude of deliverance from the circumstance, but an attitude of triumphal victory. Paul is using words that would have been familiar to the Romans of having a triumphal march that would be seen after the victory of a battle throwing roses in the streets as the soldiers and generals would parade in their chariots publicly down the streets. Paul is trying to tell us that Jesus Christ has already triumphantly won the battle of our circumstance and that we are the paraded aroma of that victory. He has already overcome making an open display of demonic powers.
1 Corinthians 13: 12-13
"For now we are looking in a mirror that gives only a dim (blurred) reflection [of reality as in a riddle or enigma], but then [when perfection comes] we shall see in reality and face to face! Now I know in part (imperfectly), but then I shall know and understand fully and clearly, even in the same manner as I have been fully and clearly known and understood [by God]. And so faith, hope, love abide [faith--conviction and belief respecting man's relation to God and divine things; hope--joyful and confident expectation of eternal salvation; love--true affection for God and man, growing out of God's love for and in us], these three; but the greatest of these is love."
Everything in our atmosphere can be shaken except faith, hope, and love. These cannot be taken away by external circumstances. No matter what areas of our life come and go; money, people, health, circumstance changes, etc. what keeps us is not these things but the internal presence of: faith, hope, and love. When we join in the victory posture (join in the party celebration) of Christ in us, the position where all circumstances have been overcome by the blood of the lamb, and we live today as new creations in Him celebrating the victory of an overcomer, we change the atmosphere of the world we are established in by the attitude of our heart. We cannot help but have a joyful expectation of miracles.
This is the position that Paul is sharing in his letter to Corinth; while in the circumstance of worldly darkness and unknown, celebrate within you the victory that is found in Jesus Christ established by faith, hope, and His love.
Hope: An expectation with pleasure, or a joyful expectation with confidence. The inner being of oneself, Christ in you, is in a posture of joyful expectation and confidence.
Faith: The assurance (the confirmation, the title deed) of the things [we] hope for, being the proof of things [we] do not see and the conviction of their reality [faith perceiving as real fact what is not revealed to the senses].
Love: GOD, unselfish, unconditional, eternal.
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