Who Is He That Overcometh the World

By Dag Heward-Mills

Why must we overcome the world? Why would I need to overcome the earth? Is the world not just this earth that God created? These are the questions we may genuinely have after reading the verse in 1 John 5:5 which asks, “Who is he that has overcome the world?” Although we may not understand it, this scripture is very clear that the world is something to be overcome. If the world were simply this earth, there would not be much more to overcome, than to ensure that we do not drown in the river or the ocean, or to ensure that we do not fall off a tall tree.
The “world” is more than a place in which we live. Celebrated author, prophet and teacher, Bishop Dag Heward-Mills, in this masterpiece, shows us the evil that actually make up the world, and how it creates a strong pressure against every believer. It is this strong pressure that believers must overcome.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Dag Heward-Mills
• Release date: Apr 20, 2023
• ISBN: 9781643307589

Dag Heward-Mills

Bishop Dag Heward-Mills is a medical doctor by profession and the founder of the United Denominations Originating from the Lighthouse Group of Churches (UD-OLGC). The UD-OLGC comprises over three thousand churches pastored by seasoned ministers, groomed and trained in-house. Bishop Dag Heward-Mills oversees this charismatic group of denominations, which operates in over 90 different countries in Africa, Asia, Europe, the Caribbean, Australia, and North and South America. With a ministry spanning over thirty years, Dag Heward-Mills has authored several books with bestsellers including ‘The Art of Leadership’, ‘Loyalty and Disloyalty’, and ‘The Mega Church’. He is considered to be the largest publishing author in Africa, having had his books translated into over 52 languages with more than 40 million copies in print.

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Unless otherwise stated, all Scripture quotations are taken from the King James Version of the Bible.

Who Is He that Overcometh the World?

Copyright © 2022 Dag Heward-Mills

Published by Parchment House 2022

1st Printing 2022

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Table of Contents

CHAPTER 1 : Who Overcomes the World?

CHAPTER 2 : If This World is Not My Home, What Is It?

CHAPTER 3 : Overcome the Pressure to Follow the Course of this World

CHAPTER 4 : Overcome the Pressure to Conform to this World

CHAPTER 5 : Overcome the Pressure to Love this World

CHAPTER 6 : Overcome the Pressure to Befriend this World

CHAPTER 7 : Overcome the Pressure from The Hatred of the World

CHAPTER 8 : We Have Another World in View

CHAPTER 9 : Accept to be a Fool in this World

CHAPTER 10 : Three Secrets for Living in this World

CHAPTER 11 : Overcome the Pressure of Materialism in this World

CHAPTER 12 : Live Righteously in this World

CHAPTER 13 : Overcome the Afflictions and Tribulations in this World

CHAPTER 14 : Overcome the Pressure from the Cares of the World

CHAPTER 15 : How Jesus Related with the World

CHAPTER 16 : Overcome the World through the Holy Spirit

CHAPTER 17 : Prepare for the End of the World

CHAPTER 1

Who Overcomes the World?

WHO IS HE THAT OVERCOMETH THE WORLD, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God?

1 John 5:5

The scripture above is very clear that the world is something to be overcome. Why must we overcome the world? What is the world? I thought the world was a place. I thought the world was this earth that God has created. Why would I need to overcome the earth?

You are asking these questions because you do not understand what exactly the world is. Indeed, the world is a place where we live but the world is much more than that. If the world were simply this earth, there would not be much more to overcome than to ensure that we do not drown in the river or the ocean, or to ensure that we do not fall off a tall tree.

In this book, I want to show you that the world is made up of the physical place we live in plus all the other creatures that inhabit this space. The world is actually a combination of the place, the people and the spirits on the earth and that makes up a very evil world indeed.

The scripture declares clearly that the whole world lies in wickedness (1 John 5:19). The world we live in is soaked in evil and this evil environment is what you and I have been born into.

You are never likely to see the devil himself. You are also not likely to see a demon in your lifetime. However, the presence of these evil spirits creates a strong negative and wicked environment on earth. An evil spirit causes the environment and the disposition of a place to change drastically.

Indeed, you are also not likely to meet most of the wicked people like the murderers, mass killers, rapists, paedophiles, serial killers and other wicked monsters that live on the earth. However, their presence on this earth creates an evil aura and also creates a negative pressure against every good thing on the earth.

The combination of the wilderness environment, the evil spirits and the evil men creates the very wicked world we live in today. This wicked world creates a strong pressure against a believer. It is this strong pressure that we must overcome. That is why scripture says, Who is he that has overcome the world? Only someone who believes in Jesus can overcome the evil pressures and influences that are present in our world today.

Indeed, this world is not our home! It is a place God has brought us to for a reason.

Let us look at the components of the world we live in. Let us understand the different components of the world that generate so much pressure against believers. As you read this book, you will understand why this world can never be your home.

1. THE WORLD IS A PHYSICALLY DANGEROUS PLACE.

They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, and consider thee, saying, Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms; THAT MADE THE WORLD AS A WILDERNESS, and destroyed the cities thereof; that opened not the house of his prisoners?

Isaiah 14:16-17

The world is a physically dangerous place that is described in the Bible. Isaiah tells us that the beautiful world that God created has been converted into a wilderness. A wilderness is a wild and uninhabited area, left in a state of disfavour and bewildering confusion. The world that God created was a beautiful place.

He hath made every thing beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end.

Ecclesiastes 3:11

And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.

Genesis 1:31

The beautiful world that God created is no longer as it was when it was first created. Isaiah stated clearly that it had