• None Greater Than John the Baptist

    Those Who Have Conquered Verily I say unto you, Among them that are born of women there hath not risen a greater than John the Baptist. Matthew 11:11 — {ML 329.1} The tall reeds that grew beside the Jordan, bending before every breeze, were fitting representatives of the rabbis who had stood as critics and…

  • Job Knew That His Redeemer Lived

    Those Who Have Conquered I know that my redeemer liveth, that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth: and though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God. Job 19:25, 26 — {ML 328.1} Into the experience of all there come times of keen disappointment…

  • Jeremiah’s Declaration of Thanksgiving

    Those Who Have Conquered It is of the Lord’s mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness. Lamentations 3:22, 23 — {ML 327.1} The faithful prophet was daily strengthened to endure. "The Lord is with me as a mighty terrible one," he declared…

  • Paul’s Shout of Victory

    Those Who Have Conquered Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? … Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. Romans 8:35-37 — {ML 326.1} Paul suffered for the truth’s sake, and…

  • Christians in All Ages Have Overcome

    Those Who Have Conquered For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith. 1 John 5:4 — {ML 325.1} The apostles built upon a sure foundation, even the Rock of Ages. To this foundation they brought the stones that they quarried from the…

  • Christ Overcame the World

    Those Who Have Conquered These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world. John 16:33 — {ML 324.1} When the last steps of Christ’s humiliation were to be taken, when the deepest sorrow…

  • Christ’s Victory as Complete as Adam’s Failure

    Those Who Have Conquered For as by one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous. Romans 5:19 — {ML 323.1} Christ is called the second Adam. In purity and holiness, connected with God and beloved by God, He began where the first Adam began. Willingly…

  • Hold Fast

    Victory in the Conflict Hold that fast which thou hast, that no man take thy crown. Revelation 3:11 — {ML 322.1} Decisions may be made in a moment that fix one’s condition forever…. But remember, it would take the work of a lifetime to recover what a moment of yielding to temptation and thoughtlessness throws…

  • Walk in the Light

    Victory in the Conflict O send out thy light and thy truth: let them lead me; let them bring me unto thy holy hill, and to thy tabernacles. Psalm 43:3 — {ML 321.1} In these days of peril we should be exceedingly careful not to reject the rays of light which Heaven in mercy sends…

  • Be Steadfast, Unmovable

    Victory in the Conflict Therefore, my beloved brethren, be stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord. 1 Corinthians 15:58 — {ML 320.1} Those who stand in defense of the honor of God, and maintain the purity of truth…