VICTORIES MUST BE CELEBRATED!

Monday, 30th October, 2023 1 Corinthians 14

       What is victory? How can you say that you are victorious? How often do you celebrate victories?

But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

1 Corinthians 15:57 ESV

    Christians must celebrate victory everyday. It is impossible to not be victorious when we carry the banner of the name of Jesus, when we do all things for God and with the help of the Holy spirit. We sometimes not feel victorious because our eyes are focus on the earthly things. We feel most victorious when we do the will of God and follow His instructions. Jesus is the overcomer of every battle, affliction, weakness, sickness this world has offered. We celebrate victories through glorifying the Lord, praising Him, and thanking Him before the day’s over. This is the reason why Christians are joyful even in the middle of a storm. When we are weak, He is strong. This is why we still delight even in our weaknesses (2 Cor 12:10).

2 Cor.12:9 But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me.

The Greatest Victory     

    On the top of these, nothing compares to the greatest victory that we are about to celebrate in the second coming of the Lord Jesus. This is where He will overcome death that has been trying to persuade, linger, and push us down to hell as we live in this world.

“O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting?”

1 Corinthians 15:55 ESV

    A little more time and the end of the reign of satan will fall and death can no longer follow us to heaven.

"Death has swallowed up in victory-1 Cor. 15:54"

The sufferings we have now are nothing compared to the great glory that will be shown to us.

Romans 8:18 How do we keep the Victory on hand?

1. Be steadfast

• Joshua 23:8 But you are to cling to the Lord your God, as you have done to this day.
• Galatians 5:1 It was for freedom that Christ set us free; therefore keep standing firm and do not be subject again to a yoke of slavery.

2. Be immovable

• Psalm 16:8 I have set the Lord continually before me; Because He is at my right hand, I will not be shaken.
• Psalm 121:3 He will not allow your foot to slip; He who keeps you will not slumber.
• Psalm 46:5 God is in the midst of her, she will not be moved; God will help her when morning dawns.

3. Always abound in the work of the Lord

• 2 Corinthians 9:8 And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that always having all sufficiency in everything, you may have an abundance for every good deed;
• Philippians 2:13 For it is God who is at work in you, both to will and to work for His good pleasure.
  Behold! I tell you a mystery. We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,
  1 Corinthians 15:51 ESV
  *We are not to fall asleep as we wait. Stay awake in faith through 1 Corinthians 15:58
  "Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that in the Lord your labor is not in vain.