The PRINCIPLE of Constant Victory Over All Our Enemies
I want you to notice this principle of death and life in the following verses. “Unless a grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it produces much grain.” (Jn.12:24) And “So also is the resurrection from the dead The body is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption. It is sown in dishonor and weakness, and it is raised in glory and power. It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body.” (1Cor.15:42-44) The natural body dies and a glorious, incorruptible, powerful body is raised to life in its place. Keep that in mind when you consider the crucified life that Christ calls and equips us to live.
A principle is a law. Law is not a bad thing; it’s just the way things work. God created the universe with natural and spiritual laws. We are familiar with physical laws; the law of gravity is just one of them. We must find out what those laws are and work with them to achieve success in any area. We must learn about these laws and cooperate with God in order to see what and how He does things, and why. There is the law of works; there is the law of faith; there is the law of sowing and reaping (2Cor.9:6), and the law of sin and death.
The main principle in the kingdom of God is the law of death and life. You might say it’s the law of life and death and life. God gives life, things die, and from that death comes a richer form of life (1Cor.15:42-43). This law has been called the Law of the Death of the Dream. The dream is great, but to reach its fulfillment there must be the death of it. Death and resurrection is a law of the kingdom of God. It is seen the most clearly and all examples show the gospel.
The death of a dream is the gospel way to constant victory. There are lots of examples of this in the Bible. Abraham got a promise from God that he would have many kids with a great place to live. But by the time he was 100 years old he had no children and had lived in a foreign land. He had the God-given dream and then the death of that dream. You can feel the pain of the death of the dream as you read his story in Genesis. But then when Sarah’s womb was dead he had the son God had promised and from this one son God gave him children as many as the stars and sand.
To live in constant resurrection victory, we must consistently live “the crucified life.”
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