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Title: The Overcoming Life
and Other Sermons

Author: Dwight Moody

Release Date: June 28, 2010 [EBook #33015]

Language: English

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THE OVERCOMING LIFE

AND OTHER SERMONS

By D. L. MOODY.

"_This is the victory that overcometh the, world, even our faith_."

FLEMING H. REVELL COMPANY

New York Chicago Toronto

_Publishers of Evangelical Literature_

COPYRIGHTED 1896, BY Fleming H. Revell Company.

CONTENTS.

THE OVERCOMING LIFE

PART I. THE CHRISTIAN'S WARFARE

PART II. INTERNAL FOES

PART III. EXTERNAL FOES

RESULTS OF TRUE REPENTANCE

TRUE WISDOM

"COME THOU AND ALL THY HOUSE INTO THE ARK"

HUMILITY

REST

SEVEN "I WILLS" OF CHRIST

THE OVERCOMING LIFE.

PART I.

THE CHRISTIAN'S WARFARE.

I would like to have you open your Bible at the first epistle of John,
fifth chapter, fourth and fifth verses: "Whatsoever is born of God
overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the
world, even our faith. Who is he that overcometh the world, but he
that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God?"

When a battle is fought, all are anxious to know who are the victors.
In these verses we are told who is to gain the victory in life. When I
was converted I made this mistake: I thought the battle was already
mine, the victory already won, the crown already in my grasp. I
thought that old things had passed away, that all things had become
new; that my old corrupt nature, the Adam life, was gone. But I found
out, after serving Christ for a few months, that conversion was only
like enlisting in the army, that there was a battle on hand, and that
if I was to get a crown, I had to work for it and fight for it.

Salvation is a gift, as free as the air we breathe. It is to be
obtained, like any other gift, without money and without price: there
are no other terms. "To him that worketh not, but believeth." But on
the other hand, if we are to gain a crown, we must work for it. Let me
quote a few vers