1 Chronicles 29:11 KJV
11 Thine, O LORD, is the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the victory, and the majesty: for all that is in the heaven and in the earth is thine; thine is the kingdom, O LORD, and thou art exalted as head above all.

Isaiah 25:8 KJV
8 He will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord GOD will wipe away tears from off all faces; and the rebuke of his people shall he take away from off all the earth: for the LORD hath spoken it.

God's victory begins simple enough from the begining of time he already reigned, but his power is more then just exalted it is adore by his people. The biggest game of our life is not about who we are but who we believe God is? Whether we believe he is and will be victorious or whether we see him as an being someone to try and over take? Devil has tried for centuries to destroy the power of God and has never achieved it. Why because God swallowed up the punishmet called death because of our sin, for all that believe in his Son, because of the cross he bore for yours and my sins. He will and has wipe away all the tears and mourning from our eyes.

Today is Super Bowl Sunday! Those that are fans are waiting for the big game that will not start til this evening. Yet it is a game we hope we are rooting for the winning game. Cincinati Bengals and Los Angeles' Rams are who is playing this year. However does it really matter who wins, only if you are a football fan. So go team go. That how the world sees us religious folks that love God and the religious people that love the devil. Then you have those in between saying why does it matter. The Super Bowl game is something even football fans can enjoy because of the party food, spending time with friends, and so forth, for those that sit at home and care not if anyone wins, it really does not matter, but even some still like to hear the score for work the next day or school. Why because it is American pass time. People go out in the yard and play ball and pass the time of day, or at one time they did many years ago, play in their own backyard. I think the computer world as taken the physical activity and made it their own social world that is surrounded by all kinds of events. Why did adults go and play football because their were kids to teach the social game too. Yet some adults use football as way to interact and computers have taken that job as well.

People have attended church for decades, the social game is played whether anyone likes it or not in church. It is not only a place of worship but a place to get to know other people. What you got growing in the church is thorns and thistles. And God said let them grow for he was going to do the weeding of the church himself. Those that grew up to not see God, do not understand spiritual side of faith, beyond the idea of worship and praise. And those of faith that grew in the understanding how the Spirit works and moves within the church are the believers. God's power is still at the head of the church. It is not human leadership but the leadership of the Spirit to even lead the singing through choice of song with the sermon, title unknown. The church is playing the biggest Super Bowl out there and the true church, the believers of faith are on the winning team, because God says so.

Who is God to win the game, but the Creator of the universe. Anything he made he knows how to destroy. I was told once a carpenter knows the one block of anything he builds that will cause all other blocks to fall. You remove the chief cornerstone from the church and the church will fall. There is a preacher that is very eloquent in speech I have listen to several times, but the thing that bothers me is his lack of scripture or using of scripture as his foundation of his message. Though he mention Jesus in the flesh, as being a person that walked the earth, and speaks of him as Savior, I hear the world of psychology in his speech. If we think we as believers can preach whatever and not share Christ we are mistaken. The world needs the foundation stone to live, to be on the winning team. You can not preach psychology without the foundation stone of who can help deliver the soul, and sweep the heart clean. Though the advise given is godly it is not the foundation stone material necessary to have victory in Jesus, only victory in the world. However what I learned by listening to him, his that those he ministering to is of the world that can only handle a little food of faith at a time. The other makes a lot more sense. There is a need for baby food, and strong meat. Those deep in faith need strong meat to survive and those that can only handle baby food, will reach maturity needing meat and baby food called love.

Football game, the activities in the church and how to live will only help morality, but it will not help the soul. Churches that are using the half time for devotions, or short service make sure the foundation stone is laid out plain and clear. God is the victor in the battle of God's saving grace, the battle over the enemy can not be defeated without God's people standing on those promise of God that bring the believers faith that victory is already come and will continue to come from the cross to his return.

What is my point we want victory to be ours it begins first with receiving Christ as Lord and then working on seeing our friends and loved ones saved. It is declaring who God is and his plan of salvation to the world and the church. The battle already won because of faith in the promise of salvation. Why are we walking in defeat.

I do not doubt if you ask the Super Bowl if they already won in one since because they made it to the finalee of the season and are playing in the biggest game of their life, but there is only one team that can win and both are equal to each other in skill, brains and brawn. Yet the victory we have in Jesus is not based on the power of man but the power of God. The victory to forgive us of our sins, the victory for us to forgive others, the victory to continue to love others. That can only come from God, through Christ Jesus.

Those that believe they waiting on the trumpet sound, that we will be changed from corruptibility to incorruptibility. That our mortality of our present age has change to the age to come of immortality of everlasting life. Not anything we ourselves can do but the free gift that comes through faith in Christ Jesus given to us by God the Father because of his great love for us. When we believe we are born by God's spirit, born because of faith in God, his Son and Spirit. Faith in Jesus is all we need to know but not the only thing to learn about faith. To believe in Jesus is to believe in completeness/fullness of the Godhead bodily.

Every wanted to play instrument you will in heaven, you will be playing a harp because you were victorious over the beast, his image and his mark. Why because you received Jesus first into your heart, and then you walked by his Spirit learning to live for him until your time to be with him in heaven, in the New Jerusalem, the place God is preparing for each of us that believe. Our victory won, because we only have to keep our eyes on Jesus the author and finisher of our faith. We only have to run the course that is set before us, because we know the race is already won. We just need Jesus to lead us to the finish line of that race. Super Bowl is won by a group effort, with Jesus we learn to walk alone with him but work together with our team mates as we run the course of faith. The Super Bowl can only be a prediction. Running with Jesus is a fact that we will win, it is the promise of the Father, as we step out in faith to believe.

Dear Heavenly Father, thank you for being not only the victor but giving us victory through your Son and word. Help us to trust in your Son and your redeeming grace and to walk by your Spirit. Every eye will be dry and every tongue will confess that you are Lord to glory of God the Father. With that we will play harps in your kingdom to come, on the sea of glass because of our victory through the power of God salvation plan, not of our own power, but the power of our Creator. In Jesus precious name, Amen.

May all Super Bowl fans have a bless and joyful day knowing that if you have Jesus in your heart you won already, but this game that being played in the stadium, the winning team no one knows for sure who will win. So let the best team win. Go Rams and Go Bengals. lets see who is the toughest out there.

Continual Scripture Study: 1 Corinthians 15:52-58 KJV
52 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.
54 So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.
55 O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?
56 The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law.
57 But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
58 Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.

1 John 5:4 KJV
4 For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith.

Revelation 15:2 KJV
2 And I saw as it were a sea of glass mingled with fire: and them that had gotten the victory over the beast, and over his image, and over his mark, and over the number of his name, stand on the sea of glass, having the harps of God.