Reformed Doctrine Daily Devotions

Today’s devotion comes from Revelation 3:21-22.

 

 

“He who overcomes, I will grant to him to sit down with Me on My throne, as I also overcame and sat down with My Father on His throne.  He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.’”  Revelation 3:21-22.

 

 

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We reach the end of Christ’s messages to the churches, and we reach the end of the ages, so to speak.  We may feel scared, threatened, and worried by both our shortcomings inside and by the ominous comings of the world outside.  How can we overcome?!

 

 

Christ said:  “These things I have spoken to you, so that in Me you may have peace.  In the world you have tribulation, but take courage;  I have overcome the world.”  John 16:33.

 

We should take courage.  Christ has overcome the world.  “For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.”  Romans 8:38-39.

 

And, “… this is the victory that has overcome the world—our faith.”  1 John 4:5.

 

“For whatever is born of God overcomes the world;  and this is the victory that has overcome the world—our faith.  Who is the one who overcomes the world, but he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?”  1 John 4:5.

 

Today’s Scripture contains the blessing that “He who overcomes, I will grant to him to sit down with Me on My throne …”.  Verse 21.  In other words, “He who overcomes” will reign with Christ.  “For if by the transgression of the one, death reigned through the one, much more those who receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness will reign in life through the One, Jesus Christ.”  Romans 5:17.  “If we endure, we will also reign with Him;  …”  2 Timothy 2:12  “And there will no longer be any night; and they will not have need of the light of a lamp nor the light of the sun, because the Lord God will illumine them; and they will reign forever and ever.”  Revelation 22:5

 

 

“He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.To him who overcomes, I will grant to eat of the tree of life which is in the Paradise of God.’”  Revelation 2:7.

 

^“He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.  He who overcomes will not be hurt by the second death.’”  Revelation 2:11.

 

“He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.  To him who overcomes, to him I will give some of the hidden manna, and I will give him a white stone, and a new name written on the stone which no one knows but he who receives it.’”  Revelation 2:17.

 

“He who overcomes, and he who keeps My deeds until the end, to him I will give authority over the nations;  and he shall rule them with a rod of iron, as the vessels of the potter are broken to pieces, as I also have received authority from My Father;  and I will give him the morning star.”  Revelation 2:26-27.

 

“He who overcomes will thus be clothed in white garments;  and I will not erase his name from the book of life, and I will confess his name before My Father and before His angels.”  Revelation 3:5.

 

“He who overcomes, I will make him a pillar in the temple of My God, and he will not go out from it anymore; and I will write on him the name of My God, and the name of the city of My God, the new Jerusalem, which comes down out of heaven from My God, and My new name.”  Revelation 3:12.