THE OVERCOMING LIFE
AND OTHER SERMONS
By D. L. MOODY.
“This is the victory that overcometh the, world, evenour faith.”
FLEMING H. REVELL COMPANY
New York ChicagoToronto
Publishers of Evangelical Literature
COPYRIGHTED 1896, BY Fleming H. RevellCompany.
THE OVERCOMING LIFE.
PART I.
THE CHRISTIAN’S WARFARE.
I would like to have you open your Bible at thefirst epistle of John, fifth chapter, fourth and fifth verses:“Whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and thisis the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith. Who ishe that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus isthe Son of God?”
When a battle is fought, all are anxious to knowwho are the victors. In these verses we are told who is to gainthe victory in life. When I was converted I made this mistake: Ithought the battle was already mine, the victory already won, thecrown already in my grasp. I thought that old things had passedaway, that all things had become new; that my old corrupt nature,the Adam life, was gone. But I found out, after serving Christfor a few months, that conversion was only like enlisting in thearmy, that there was a batt