Overcoming the World - John‬ ‭16 - Pastor Ken Peters

John‬ ‭16‬:‭1‬-‭13‬, ‭19‬-‭22‬, ‭32‬-‭33‬ ‭KJV‬‬ 64-68 AD - Nero 89-96 AD - Domitian 109-117 AD - Trajan 161-180 AD - Marcus Aurelius 193-211 AD - Septimius Severus 235-238 AD - Maximinus the Thracian 249-251 AD - Decius 253-260 AD - Valerian 285-305 AD - Diocletian 305-313 AD - Galerius “In the days of Herod, king of Judea, there was a priest named Zechariah, of the division of Abijah. And he had a wife from the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elizabeth.” ‭‭Luke‬ ‭1‬:‭5‬ ‭ESV‬‬ “And the angel answered her, "The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you; therefore the child to be born will be called holy—the Son of God. And behold, your relative Elizabeth in her old age has also conceived a son, and this is the sixth month with her who was called barren.” ‭‭Luke‬ ‭1‬:‭35‬-‭36‬ ‭ESV‬‬ In the great awakening of 1860-61 in Great Britain, a high-ranking army officer described the conviction of sin in his Scottish town: “Those of you who are ease have little conception of how terrifying a sight it is when the Holy Spirit is pleased to open a man’s eyes to see the real state of heart. Men who were thought to be, and who thought themselves to be good, religious people… have been led to search into the foundation upon which they were resting, and have found all rotten, that they were self-satisfied, resting on their own goodness, and not upon Christ. Many turned from open sin to lives of holiness, some weeping for joy for sins forgiven.” (J. Edwin Orr, The Second Evangelical Awakening in Britain) “The world conquers me… 1. When it comes between me and God, 2. when it fills my desires, 3. when it absorbs my energies, 4. when it blinds my eyes to the things unseen and eternal.” (Maclaren)