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From: The Christian Shepherd: 1998

By: Max Priestly

Narrator: Chris Genthree

Duration: 1min

• 1 min. read • grade level: 8

An overcomer is one who “comes over” an obstacle. In the Christian pathway, this calls for faith and spiritual energy. The power is not natural and involves the forgetting of, not only past victories, but also past breakdowns and failures. Do we despise, in our hearts, a believer who has failed? Do we hold, in our mind, their failures (or our own failures)? There cannot be true “overcoming” if this is the case.

All this is involved in “forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus” (Phil. 3:13-14¹³Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, ¹⁴I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. (Philippians 3:13‑14)).

M. Priestly

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