We may not win every battle, but we know the war has been won in Christ, and we keep marching on in His name, exalting our King. Amen? And it just takes us right to where we're dealing with in the book of Revelation. Look at what he says in verse number 7 of chapter number 12. He says, And war broke out in heaven, and Michael and his angels fought with the dragon, and the dragon and his angels fought. but they did not prevail, nor was a place found for them in heaven any longer. So the great dragon was cast out, the serpent of old, called the devil, and also Satan, who deceives the whole world. He was cast to the earth and His angels were cast out with Him. Then I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now salvation and strength and the kingdom of our God and the power of His Christ have come for the accuser of the brethren who accused them before God day and night has been cast down. And they, that is the brethren, the saints, overcame Him by the blood of the Lamb and the word of their testimony. and they did not love their lives to the death. Therefore, rejoice, O heavens, and you who dwell in them. Father, we thank you today that we can testify and stand before you and that we can humbly approach you and just say we love you. Thank you for being willing to use us, being willing to speak to us, and thank you for giving us the victory, the triumph in Christ, in Jesus' name, Amen. And oh simply in this we see that as God speaks to me out of this passage, verse number 11, And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony, and they loved not their lives to the death. They overcame him. You know, there's only, that right there tells us how in the world are we going to be able to overcome the enemy, Satan, that great dragon of old, that serpent, is that we've got to have the covering of the blood of Jesus. There's he who deceives the whole world. You've got to have the covering of the blood of Jesus. Without the covering of the blood of Jesus, there's no way to triumph or overcome the wiles and the schemes and the temptations of that dragon, Satan, the old surplant of the devil. There's no way that you and I would be able to overcome him. As we look through the book of Revelation, as you've been studying through it, as you've been reading through it, how many of y'all got all the answers in the book thus far? None of us would admit to that. We'd be a fool if we did. We don't know all the answers, but prayerfully and thankfully so, we get something in here that helps us recognize that one, no matter how we look at it, God is working all these things out for His glory, and we can praise Him on that. There's a lot of details in it that I don't know about, and I can't explain accurately. I have an inclination towards some of them, but I can't come with 100% of a confidence and say, I know exactly what this means and exactly what it says. So I don't talk about it as much, but I do know this with 100% accuracy, God is upon His throne. He's the one who's unveiling the life of His Son. And three, He's working all these things out on His timetable and upon His scale, and He gives us a glimpse of how we are able to overcome this great deceiver, and that is being covered under the blood of the Lamb, and by the confession or the word of our testimony. You see, it's in the covering of the Lamb that transforms who we are, changes who we are, that gives us a confession to agree with, and to walk with, and to talk, and to proclaim, and to stand upon, to praise the One who's covered us, and to give glory in the heights to Him. and the confidence of the fact that no matter what we have to face, even if Satan is given authority to kill us, or overthrow us, however you want to look at it, to punish us, to mistreat us. The confidence that we have is that God has done such a transformational work in us of our confession of the Lordship of Jesus over our lives, that He is our King, that we're willing to live and die for Him. Amen? As Paul would say in Acts chapter 20, He knew he was going to face trouble. He knew he was going to face jail time. He knew he was going to face chains. He knew he would face beatings. He knew it was not going to be easy. But the Spirit testified that trouble was coming your way. He said, but you know, none of them things, it doesn't deter me or move me off course. Why? Because I want to finish the race that God gave me. And I want to finish it with joy. I want to testify to the gospel of Jesus Christ. I want to confess. I've been covered in the blood of the Lamb. What in the world can Satan do unto me? I'm alive in Christ. It's no longer I who live, but Christ Jesus who lives in me. What can he do but deal with this old body of mine which is defiled, it's vile, it's sinful, it's corrupted. It'll never be redeemed. It's going to have to be transformed. So what can he do to me? He can't do anything to me without God permitting Him to have authority over my life. And if He does, it's because God's finished with me. So I have the confidence that no matter what, I'm indestructible until God is done. Amen? I get a glimpse of that. Look in chapter 11. Look in chapter 11. I was telling the men in Sunday school, right as we was closing, 11-7. This verse, it strengthens my spirit every time I think about it and ponder it. I love what it says and it says exactly what 12-11 is saying, how they overcame Him by the blood and by the word of their testimony and that they loved not their lives even unto death. But listen to what 11-7 says, when they finish their testimony. The beast that ascends out of the Balaam's pit will make war against them, will overcome them, and kill them. But it won't happen until they're finished with their testimony. until they're finished. Until they're finished. You know what that says to me? It screams to me that they and we are indestructible until God is finished with the testimony that He's given us, the assignment that He's given us. For some people, it's younger than others. For some, they're older. But nonetheless, it's not until God is finished. You know the phrase we've heard. It was their time. You ever say that before? We've seen it. We've got family memories, ones we love and care for. Some of you have lost spouses. And some of them were younger. Some of them were up in age. And we know that ultimately, no matter how we look at it, that life and death are given by God, and when God is done with us, He will take us home. And no matter what we have to endure and face, it could be a physical ailment, it could be a disease, it could be a car wreck, it could be the most strangest things that we can fathom and imagine, we all know we're on a crash course with death, every one of us. It's inevitable. It's going to happen because of the nature that we are, and we're products of the fall. That is, we're children of wrath, the scripture says. Products of the fall, sinful by nature, and because of sin, death entered this world because of sin. And all of us are going to die. But we can testify for sure. Now we do believe that some die prematurely. because of whatever reason. The Bible says there are sins unto death. That means somebody was just rebellious toward the Lord, they kept doing their own thing in their own way, and God took them out for whatever reason. That would be premature. We don't know that because we believe that there's been young people that gave their lives to Jesus, doing what He called them to do on the mission field, spent for His glory that died at a young age, but they were finished with their testimony. We can cling to that. I can cling to that. That when I'm finished bearing witness to what God has given unto me, God will take me home to be with Him. Amen? And as these two witnesses who were given great power and great authority and great strength, Satan tried to overthrow them and conquer them and deal with them untouchable, couldn't do anything with them until they were finished. And then God released the enemy to overcome them and to kill them, but it did not happen until they were finished with their testimony. A shouting ground, amen? We don't have anything to fear. We don't have to fear death. We don't have to fear what's coming. We don't have to fear the end of this day or tomorrow. Why? Because we, if you belong to Jesus, you've been covered under the blood of the Lamb. But you can testify in this place today that God has let you continue to take another breath, Mama Rob, because He's not finished. He ain't finished with you, amen? Carolyn, He's not finished. Stephanie's not finished. And He's not finished with you or me. And until He is, there is no fear of dying no fear of death or fear of what is to come because we have been given authority to overcome the enemy by the blood and by the word of our testimony our confession and by our confidence that he's not finished with us amen we can keep walking in victory I don't know about you but that blesses me it blesses me to know he's not finished So I can do anything He's called me to do because He's the one who's given me the assignment, the testimony to bear witness to. And if He's given it to me, He's given me the authority to do it. And if He's given me the authority to do it, He's going to protect me in it. And even if He lets harmful things or destructive things or damaging things happen to me, it's because it's part of the testimony that He's given. And He's still not finished. And I just keep walking, plotting, one step at a time. Amen? For His glory. Father, we thank You today. We give You praise. We ask that You help us, strengthen us, encourage us, speak to us, help Your people live for Your glory. And we'll be ever grateful and thankful for it. If you'd stand, I'm just going to read the words of something that I'd put on paper at one time, and then we'll have our invitation. Revelation 12, 11, our ladies will begin playing. The Scripture says, By the blood of Jesus, they stood so strong. By the blood of Jesus, they sang a song. By the blood of Jesus, they praised all day long. By the blood, by the blood, victory is won. By the word of truth, They shared the way. By the word of truth, they saved the day. By the word of truth, they plan to stay. By the blood, by the blood, victory is won. By the life of one, they gave their all. By the life of one, they stand so tall. By the life of one, they never will fall. By the blood, by the blood, victory is won. You are indestructible until He's finished. Give Him glory.