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Victory as an act of God

Synopsis

God is the source of all victory, which he grants to those who obey his commands and put their confidence in him.

This principle holds true in all believers’ conflicts, whether physical or spiritual.

God is the source of all victory

(NASB95) — 1 “When you go out to battle against your enemies and see horses and chariots and people more numerous than you, do not be afraid of them; for the Lord your God, who brought you up from the land of Egypt, is with you. 2 “When you are approaching the battle, the priest shall come near and speak to the people.

3 “He shall say to them, ‘Hear, O Israel, you are approaching the battle against your enemies today.

Do not be fainthearted.

Do not be afraid, or panic, or tremble before them, 4 for the Lord your God is the one who goes with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you.’

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(NASB95) — 15 and he said, “Listen, all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem and King Jehoshaphat: thus says the Lord to you, ‘Do not fear or be dismayed because of this great multitude, for the battle is not yours but God’s.

(NASB95) — 35 You have also given me the shield of Your salvation, And Your right hand upholds me; And Your gentleness makes me great.

(NASB95) — 57 but thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

(NASB95) — 14 But thanks be to God, who always leads us in triumph in Christ, and manifests through us the sweet aroma of the knowledge of Him in every place.

Victory is achieved by God, not people

(NASB95) — 7 Some boast in chariots and some in horses, But we will boast in the name of the Lord, our God.

8 They have bowed down and fallen, But we have risen and stood upright.

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(NASB95) — 45 Then David said to the Philistine, “You come to me with a sword, a spear, and a javelin, but I come to you in the name of the Lord of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have taunted.

46 “This day the Lord will deliver you up into my hands, and I will strike you down and remove your head from you.

And I will give the dead bodies of the army of the Philistines this day to the birds of the sky and the wild beasts of the earth, that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel, 47 and that all this assembly may know that the Lord does not deliver by sword or by spear; for the battle is the Lord’s and He will give you into our hands.”

(NASB95) — 3 For by their own sword they did not possess the land, And their own arm did not save them, But Your right hand and Your arm and the light of Your presence, For You favored them.

4 You are my King, O God; Command victories for Jacob.

5 Through You we will push back our adversaries; Through Your name we will trample down those who rise up against us.

6 For I will not trust in my bow, Nor will my sword save me.

7 But You have saved us from our adversaries, And You have put to shame those who hate us.

(NASB95) — 11 O give us help against the adversary, For deliverance by man is in vain.

12 Through God we shall do valiantly, And it is He who will tread down our adversaries.

(NASB95) — 3 Do not trust in princes, In mortal man, in whom there is no salvation.

(NASB95) — 31 The horse is prepared for the day of battle, But victory belongs to the Lord.

Victory should be ascribed to God

(NASB95) — 15 The sound of joyful shouting and salvation is in the tents of the righteous; The right hand of the Lord does valiantly.

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(NASB95) — 1 Then Moses and the sons of Israel sang this song to the Lord, and said, “I will sing to the Lord, for He is highly exalted; The horse and its rider He has hurled into the sea.

(NASB95) — 1 O Lord, in Your strength the king will be glad, And in Your salvation how greatly he will rejoice!

(NASB95) — 57 but thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

(NASB95) — 1 After these things I heard something like a loud voice of a great multitude in heaven, saying, “Hallelujah!

Salvation and glory and power belong to our God; 2 because His judgments are true and righteous; for He has judged the great harlot who was corrupting the earth with her immorality, and He has avenged the blood of His bond-servants on her.”

Victory depends on faithfulness

God grants victory to those who are faithful to him

(NASB95) — 13 “Then you will prosper, if you are careful to observe the statutes and the ordinances which the Lord commanded Moses concerning Israel.

Be strong and courageous, do not fear nor be dismayed.

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(NASB95) — 20 “Behold, I am going to send an angel before you to guard you along the way and to bring you into the place which I have prepared.

21 “Be on your guard before him and obey his voice; do not be rebellious toward him, for he will not pardon your transgression, since My name is in him.

22 “But if you truly obey his voice and do all that I say, then I will be an enemy to your enemies and an adversary to your adversaries.

23 “For My angel will go before you and bring you in to the land of the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Canaanites, the Hivites and the Jebusites; and I will completely destroy them.

(NASB95) — 8 His heart is upheld, he will not fear, Until he looks with satisfaction on his adversaries.

(NASB95) — 7 He stores up sound wisdom for the upright; He is a shield to those who walk in integrity,

Unfaithfulness to God brings defeat

(NASB95) — 41 But Moses said, “Why then are you transgressing the commandment of the Lord, when it will not succeed?

42 “Do not go up, or you will be struck down before your enemies, for the Lord is not among you.

43 “For the Amalekites and the Canaanites will be there in front of you, and you will fall by the sword, inasmuch as you have turned back from following the Lord.

And the Lord will not be with you.”

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(NASB95) — 15 “But it shall come about, if you do not obey the Lord your God, to observe to do all His commandments and His statutes with which I charge you today, that all these curses will come upon you and overtake you:

(NASB95) — 25 “The Lord shall cause you to be defeated before your enemies; you will go out one way against them, but you will flee seven ways before them, and you will be an example of terror to all the kingdoms of the earth.

(NASB95) — 20 Then the Spirit of God came on Zechariah the son of Jehoiada the priest; and he stood above the people and said to them, “Thus God has said, ‘Why do you transgress the commandments of the Lord and do not prosper?

Because you have forsaken the Lord, He has also forsaken you.’

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Examples of God giving victory

to Israel over the Amalekites

(NASB95) — 8 Then Amalek came and fought against Israel at Rephidim.

9 So Moses said to Joshua, “Choose men for us and go out, fight against Amalek.

Tomorrow I will station myself on the top of the hill with the staff of God in my hand.” 10 Joshua did as Moses told him, and fought against Amalek; and Moses, Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of the hill.

11 So it came about when Moses held his hand up, that Israel prevailed, and when he let his hand down, Amalek prevailed.

12 But Moses’ hands were heavy.

Then they took a stone and put it under him, and he sat on it; and Aaron and Hur supported his hands, one on one side and one on the other.

Thus his hands were steady until the sun set.

13 So Joshua overwhelmed Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword.

14 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Write this in a book as a memorial and recite it to Joshua, that I will utterly blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven.”

15 Moses built an altar and named it The Lord is My Banner;

To Joshua at Jericho:

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(NASB95) — 2 The Lord said to Joshua, “See, I have given Jericho into your hand, with its king and the valiant warriors.

3 “You shall march around the city, all the men of war circling the city once.

You shall do so for six days.

4 “Also seven priests shall carry seven trumpets of rams’ horns before the ark; then on the seventh day you shall march around the city seven times, and the priests shall blow the trumpets.

5 “It shall be that when they make a long blast with the ram’s horn, and when you hear the sound of the trumpet, all the people shall shout with a great shout; and the wall of the city will fall down flat, and the people will go up every man straight ahead.”

(NASB95) — 20 So the people shouted, and priests blew the trumpets; and when the people heard the sound of the trumpet, the people shouted with a great shout and the wall fell down flat, so that the people went up into the city, every man straight ahead, and they took the city.

to Gideon over the Midianites; to Samson over 1,000 Philistines; to the Israelites at Mizpah; to David over Goliath; to Elijah at Mount Carmel; when David conquered Jerusalem

(NASB95) — 15 When Gideon heard the account of the dream and its interpretation, he bowed in worship.

He returned to the camp of Israel and said, “Arise, for the Lord has given the camp of Midian into your hands.”

16 He divided the 300 men into three companies, and he put trumpets and empty pitchers into the hands of all of them, with torches inside the pitchers.

17 He said to them, “Look at me and do likewise.

And behold, when I come to the outskirts of the camp, do as I do.

18 “When I and all who are with me blow the trumpet, then you also blow the trumpets all around the camp and say, ‘For the Lord and for Gideon.’

” 19 So Gideon and the hundred men who were with him came to the outskirts of the camp at the beginning of the middle watch, when they had just posted the watch; and they blew the trumpets and smashed the pitchers that were in their hands.

20 When the three companies blew the trumpets and broke the pitchers, they held the torches in their left hands and the trumpets in their right hands for blowing, and cried, “A sword for the Lord and for Gideon!” 21 Each stood in his place around the camp; and all the army ran, crying out as they fled.

22 When they blew 300 trumpets, the Lord set the sword of one against another even throughout the whole army; and the army fled as far as Beth-shittah toward Zererah, as far as the edge of Abel-meholah, by Tabbath.

(NASB95) — 12 They said to him, “We have come down to bind you so that we may give you into the hands of the Philistines.”

And Samson said to them, “Swear to me that you will not kill me.” 13 So they said to him, “No, but we will bind you fast and give you into their hands; yet surely we will not kill you.”

Then they bound him with two new ropes and brought him up from the rock.

14 When he came to Lehi, the Philistines shouted as they met him.

And the Spirit of the Lord came upon him mightily so that the ropes that were on his arms were as flax that is burned with fire, and his bonds dropped from his hands.

15 He found a fresh jawbone of a donkey, so he reached out and took it and killed a thousand men with it.

16 Then Samson said, “With the jawbone of a donkey, Heaps upon heaps, With the jawbone of a donkey I have killed a thousand men.” 17 When he had finished speaking, he threw the jawbone from his hand; and he named that place Ramath-lehi.

18 Then he became very thirsty, and he called to the Lord and said, “You have given this great deliverance by the hand of Your servant, and now shall I die of thirst and fall into the hands of the uncircumcised?” 19 But God split the hollow place that is in Lehi so that water came out of it.

When he drank, his strength returned and he revived.

Therefore he named it En-hakkore, which is in Lehi to this day.

(NASB95) — 7 Now when the Philistines heard that the sons of Israel had gathered to Mizpah, the lords of the Philistines went up against Israel.

And when the sons of Israel heard it, they were afraid of the Philistines.