Sermon Breakdown

1. We must always put into the first position what happens to us as souls, not just as human beings and individuals. Everything in the life of the Christian must be subordinated to the interests of the soul.
2. It isn't things in and of themselves that are important. It is what they do to us as souls. And it is the way in which they affect us as souls that matter.
3. The Christian is not interested in these actions of the other person, whether it be an enemy or whatever he is who's doing you harm at the moment. The Christian is not interested in the actions in and of themselves so much as in the power that is behind them.
4. We must never allow evil to conquer us or to overcome us. Doesn't matter what form it takes. The form is comparatively unimportant. It is the principle of evil. Never allow evil or sin of the devil to overcome you, says the apostle.
5. We are to be more than conquerors. We never stop at the negative as christians more than conquerors.
6. We've got to overcome evil with good. How do we do that? Well, he's already told us one of the best ways is if thine enemy hunger, feed him. If he thirst, give him drink. Whatever it is that he's in need of, go to him and relieve him in every way that you can.
7. You overcome evil in yourself. By doing this, you get a victory over the old nature that is still left in you. Every time you do this, you don't respond to it. You're mortifying it.
8. You overcome evil also in your adversary, this person who's acting to you, towards you as an enemy. You do him great good. If you behave in this way.
9. You overcome evil in general, in itself, not only in yourself, his self, but in itself. Every time we live like this, we are defeating the enemy. We are getting a victory over him, as our Lord got victories over him, in the temptations, in the wilderness, and at many other points, supremely on the cross, on Calvary's hill.
10. What is it that makes it possible? What is the secret of all this? This is glory. Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.
11. No man can rise to this level unless he has a right view of himself.
12. But he also has a right view of others, even of his enemies. The man who does him harm, he doesn't see him as a man. He sees him as a soul. He sees him as a lost soul.
13. You also remind yourself that you are a soldier in a great warfare, that you're fighting the fight of faith, that you're wrestling against these principalities and powers.
14. And then he realizes that being a soldier in this great battle, he must always fight in God's way and not in his own way.
15. And finally, whatever men may do to you, whether they praise you or whether they hate you, whether they do, the various things that that hymn that we were singing describes. What's it matter? Keep your eye on the day of triumph that is coming, the crowning day that is coming by and by, the certainty of the victory.