{"id":25419,"date":"2025-08-11T01:41:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T01:41:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/?p=25419"},"modified":"2025-08-11T01:41:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T01:41:14","slug":"my-victory-over-the-enemy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/2025\/08\/my-victory-over-the-enemy\/","title":{"rendered":"My Victory Over The Enemy"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201dIn the Lord have I righteousness and strength.\u201d\u2014Isaiah 45:24<\/strong><\/p>\n

To trust in our own righteousness, and to glory in our own strength, is natural to us all. But when a poor sinner \u2018knows himself, even as he is known of the Lord,\u2019 he thinks otherwise. When \u2018he becomes a follower of the Lamb,\u2019 he learns the language of Canaan, and says, \u2018I have no confidence in the flesh.\u2019 I subscribe with my whole heart to this confession of faith, \u2018In the Lord have I righteousness and strength.\u2019 That the Lord Jehovah is a God of righteousness, and that he is almighty in strength, who will dare to deny? But by faith we speak the most comfortable knowledge of covenant grace: I, a poor sinner, who am without strength, destitute of righteousness in myself, have both strength and righteousness in Jehovah. What I am, a sinner by nature and practice, that Jesus became by imputation. What Jesus is in his nature, and by his life, perfectly righteous, that I am in him. In myself I have no might, no strength; but in the Lord Jesus am 1 strong, \u2018strong in him, and in the power of his might.\u2019<\/p>\n

This is the glorious grace, the joyful truth of the everlasting covenant. Such honour have all the saints of Jesus. His perfect righteousness is their clothing; his almighty strength their protection. Who then shall condemn them? What power can prevail against them? Oh believer; rejoice in thy privilege. This is thy triumph against every accusation, \u2018In Jesus I have righteousness.\u2019 This is my victory over every enemy, \u2018In Jesus I have strength.\u2019 Under the most discouraging views of my nature, as corrupt and sinful; my life and practice, as unrighteous; the condemnings of the law, though just; the accusations of Satan, though grievous; yet in my glorious covenant head and representative, I am \u2018made the righteousness of God; in the beloved Son of God I am for ever accepted.\u2019 Under the most dejecting sense of our own weakness, to withstand corruptions, to get the mastery over sinful passions, to prevail against our enemies; though weak to perform any duty, insufficient to exercise any grace, unable to do the will of God, to walk in his ways, and to please him; yet ever, under all circumstances, the Spirit testifies of Jesus; and \u2018out of his fulness we receive grace for grace.\u2019 Though \u2018without Christ we can do nothing; yet, through Christ strengthening us, we can do all things.\u2019 Here is the mystery of faith. \u2018Abide in me,\u2019 saith the Lamb.<\/p>\n

\u201cPoor helpless worms in thee possess<\/p>\n

Grace, wisdom, power, and righteousness;<\/p>\n

Thou art our mighty All, and we<\/p>\n

Glory, oh Lord, only in thee.<\/p>\n

Let faith and love always combine,<\/p>\n

To cause this precious truth to shine,<\/p>\n

We sinners poor, and full of need,<\/p>\n

Have all things, in our glorious head.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

M.<\/p>\n

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To trust in our own righteousness, and to glory in our own strength, is natural to us all. But when a poor sinner \u2018knows himself, even as he is known of the Lord,\u2019 he thinks otherwise. When \u2018he becomes a follower of the Lamb,\u2019 he learns the language of Canaan, and says, \u2018I have no confidence in the flesh.\u2019 I subscribe with my whole heart to this confession of faith, \u2018In the Lord have I righteousness and strength.\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":325,"featured_media":20656,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1571],"tags":[1227],"class_list":["post-25419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-william-mason","tag-spiritual-assurance"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/325"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25419"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25420,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25419\/revisions\/25420"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}