 If you don't mind, I'd like to offer you something that might give a little bit of encouragement to you. Look at that little bit of confidence as you walk through this life that we're in as believers. It's tough out there and sometimes as a believer you've got these different things coming at you. Some things that may cause any doubt and sometimes even concern as to whether you are saved enough to make it. Let me give you a passage that we cover sometimes and we don't really flesh out what it really means to what it all is entailed in here. And this passage in Revelation 3.5 where we talk about someone may or may not being blotted out which by the way, the sweepers are clear, no one can be blotted out. And speaking of certain people who can't be blotted out and I wanna show you some of that part that we don't typically cover, but let's go to it. He says in Revelation 3.5 that he who overcomes will thus be clothed in white garments and I will not erase or blot out his name from the book of life. Now, a couple of things. Remember, he's not saying that there's a possibility. He's literally saying that I will not and he used emphatic negation which is that I will never ever ever blot out or erase that person's name. So we can't come back and say, well, there's a possibility if he can, if he says it will never blotted out that means it can be blotted out. Says the total opposite of that. But I wanna focus on something so that you can know that you are the person whose name will not be blotted out. That is indeed if you are an actual believer. Look what he says. He says he who overcomes and so this word for overcomes is Nikon now. Someone said, well, see, you have to overcome in order to make sure that your name is not blotted out but notice what he says. That said that you have to overcome. He says that this is what you are. You are and notice the tense of it. This is in the present active partisan meaning that you are overcoming. This is who you are. This is what you do. You are categorized or identified as someone who was overcoming. Where do we get this from? Why do we even have this terminology about someone who's an overcoming? How do you become an overcoming, an overcoming? Well, let's go to John. Let's see what John has to say on the matter. In 1st John 5.4, he says, for whatever is born of God, obviously it's who, overcomes the world. And there's that word in the Greek in Revelation. It was Nikon, same word but in this case it is the word for Nikai. Overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world, our faith. So what causes us to overcome the world? Our faith, our faith in what? Obviously our faith in Christ. But notice what it says. Verse five, he says, who is or who is the one who overcomes the world? Notice the tense over here again. It is Nikon, the one who is overcoming. Again, it's a present active partisan but this is someone who is overcoming. That person that we've already discovered, John says in Revelation, that person that's overcoming will never have to worry about their name being blotted out. Of course, no one's name ever will be but that's something different. But the person that's overcoming, that's the one whose name will not be blotted out. Let's continue. Who is the overcoming one or the one who's overcoming the world? But he who believes that Jesus is the son of God. Notice the tense here. It is the hapistuan, the ones that's believing. It's the same tense of the verb that's used in John 3.16. So if you are believing, ask yourself a question. Are you a believer? Have you been born of the spirit? Are you, as we say, born again? If you are the Bible Spirit that you're overcoming, he says, who is the one that's overcoming but the one who is believing that Jesus is the son of God? Now, how do we know that this is someone who is born again, who believes? Let's go back to the first part of first John five. Look what it says. Whoever believes, this is the pasapistuan, this is the same verb that's used in John 3.16, the believing ones, whoever that believing one is, that Jesus is the Christ, is born of God. And this word, this tense for the word born is in the perfect middle indicative. Now, let me explain this real quick. The perfect tense is a completed action in the past. It's a past completed action, meaning that it was done. And in this case, it's in the middle. It was done to you. Well, who did that? Well, that's obviously from God. We know that the person who was born of God, we find out in John 3, same John who's speaking of this, when Jesus says that you must be born of the spirit, not born of your own accord, as John says, not born of will of flesh or blood but of the will of God. And he says, just as the wind blows, where it wants to, you don't know where it's going where it's going, where it's coming from. So is everyone who is born of the spirit, born of God, born again.