CROWN

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CROWN OF VICTORY
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Crown Of Victory

• Victory can be ours!
• Faith is the victory
• I John 54
• For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the
  world and this is the victory that overcometh
  the world, even our faith.

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Crown Of Victory

• God has always rewarded the faithful
• Noah found grace in Gods sight
• Genesis 66,8
• And it repented the LORD that he had made man on
  the earth, and it grieved him at his heart. (8)
  But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD.

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Crown Of Victory

• God has always rewarded the faithful
• Abrahams faith was outstanding
• Romans 419
• And being not weak in faith, he considered not
  his own body now dead, when he was about an
  hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of
  Sarah's womb.

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Crown Of Victory

• God has always rewarded the faithful
• Abrahams faith was outstanding
• Romans 420
• He staggered not at the promise of God through
  unbelief but was strong in faith, giving glory
  to God.

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Crown Of Victory

• God has always rewarded the faithful
• Enoch
• Hebrews 115
• By faith Enoch was translated that he should not
  see death and was not found, because God had
  translated him for before his translation he had
  this testimony, that he pleased God.

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Crown Of Victory

• God has always rewarded the faithful
• God provided better things for faithful
• Hebrews 1139-40
• And these all, having obtained a good report
  through faith, received not the promise God
  having provided some better thing for us, that
  they without us should not be made perfect.

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Crown Of Victory

• God has always rewarded the faithful
• Gods promise to David
• Psalm 13211
• The LORD hath sworn in truth unto David he will
  not turn from it Of the fruit of thy body will I
  set upon thy throne..

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Crown Of Victory

• God has always rewarded the faithful
• Gods promise to David
• Psalm 13212
• If thy children will keep my covenant and my
  testimony that I shall teach them, their children
  shall also sit upon thy throne for evermore.

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Crown Of Victory

• God has always rewarded the faithful
• God is faithful
• Deuteronomy 79
• Know therefore that the LORD thy God, he is God,
  the faithful God, which keepeth covenant and
  mercy with them that love him and keep his
  commandments to a thousand generations

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Crown Of Victory

• God has always rewarded the faithful
• God will not forget our labor of love
• Hebrews 610
• For God is not unrighteous to forget your work
  and labor of love, which ye have showed toward
  his name

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Crown Of Victory

• II. The Incorruptible Crown
• Some strive for corruptible crowns
• I Corinthians 924
• Know ye not that they which run in a race run
  all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye
  may obtain.
• Think of hours of an Olympic contestant

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Crown Of Victory

• II. The Incorruptible Crown
• We run the Christian race for a crown
• I Corinthians 926-27
• I therefore so run, not as uncertainly so fight
  I, not as one that beats the air But I keep
  under my body, and bring it into subjection lest
  that by any means, when I have preached to
  others, I myself should be a castaway.

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Crown Of Victory

• II. The Incorruptible Crown
• We run the Christian race for a crown
• I Corinthians 926-27
• I therefore so run, not as uncertainly so fight
  I, not as one that beats the air But I keep
  under my body, and bring it into subjection lest
  that by any means, when I have preached to
  others, I myself should be a castaway.

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Crown Of Victory

• II. The Incorruptible Crown
• Lay aside every weight
• Hebrews 121
• Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about
  with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay
  aside every weight, and the sin which doth so
  easily beset us, and let us run with patience the
  race that is set before us,

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Crown Of Victory

• II. The Incorruptible Crown
• One is not crowned unless he goes by the rules
• II Timothy 25
• And if a man also strive for masteries, yet is
  he not crowned, except he strive lawfully.

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Crown Of Victory

• II. The Incorruptible Crown
• Fight the good fight of faith
• I Timothy 612
• Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on
  eternal life, whereunto thou art also called, and
  hast professed a good profession before many
  witnesses.

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Crown Of Victory

• III. The Crown Of Victory
• It is a crown of righteousness
• II Timothy 47
• I have fought a good fight, I have finished my
  course, I have kept the faith.

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Crown Of Victory

• III. The Crown Of Victory
• It is a crown of righteousness
• II Timothy 48
• Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of
  righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous
  judge, shall give me at that day and not to me
  only, but unto all them also that love his
  appearing.

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• III. The Crown Of Victory
• It is a crown of life
• James 112
• Blessed is the man that endureth temptation for
  when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of
  life, which the Lord hath promised to them that
  love him.

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Crown Of Victory

• III. The Crown Of Victory
• Crown is given to those who are faithful unto
  death
• Revelation 210
• be thou faithful unto death, and I will give
  thee a crown of life.

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• III. The Crown Of Victory
• It is a crown of glory
• I Peter 54
• And when the chief Shepherd shall appear, ye
  shall receive a crown of glory that fadeth not
  away.

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• III. The Crown Of Victory
• Let no one take your crown
• Revelation 311
• Behold, I come quickly hold that fast which
  thou hast, that no man take thy crown.

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Crown Of Victory

• III. The Crown Of Victory
• Crown of life means eternal life
• John 316
• For God so loved the world, that he gave his
  only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in
  him should not perish, but have everlasting
  life.

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Crown Of Victory

• This crown is available to all!
• But obedience faithfulness is required
• To Obey
• 1. Hear Rom. 1017
• 2. Believe John 824
• 3. Repent Luke 133
• 4. Confess Acts 836-37
• 5. Be baptized Acts 238

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