I Have Overcome

Do You now believe? Jesus replied. A time is coming and in fact has come when you will be scattered, each to your own home. You will leave me all alone. Yet I am not alone, for my Father is with me. I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world. 

John 16:31-33 

Jesus has already won. As He prepared His disciples for the horrific impending events of the next few hours, He concluded His remarks with the words of our text. In these words, He realistically describes the experience of believers in the world that is hostile to Him. He says, ‘In the world you will have tribulation.’ He declares that even though they will have tribulation they will have peace in spite of it. What makes for their peace? It is the fact that Christ has overcome the world. This means they will not only have peace but even good cheer in the midst of their trouble. Why, because they know what others do not know, that Christ has already won the victory over the world. This has enabled the people of God to bear up under the most adverse onslaughts against them from that day until today. Christ has always made good on His word. Every promise He made, He has fulfilled in due course of time. He promised, on the night He spoke the words of our text, that He would come again to receive us unto Himself, that where He is there we may be also. John describes His return in the Book of Revelation. He appears as King of Kings and Lord of Lords. He returns as the Overcomer to do judgment and justice. We may be of good cheer.  

Our Glorious, Victorious Christ, 
we rejoice that You have won the victory. 
We praise You that You will come again, 
to subdue all things unto Yourself. 

Tomm Tice
Where the Bush is Burning