Chuck Missler — The Kingdom, Power and Glory: The Overcomer’s Handbook

52 published claims from this book.

• A refiner knows silver is done by seeing his own reflection in it
• A saved believer can still be found spiritually naked at judgment
• Apparent-effort salvation passages target sanctification, not justification
• Applicable personal experience precedes legitimate sharing of truth
• Being an overcomer does not depend on socio-economic status or public prominence.
• Being an overcomer positionally does not translate into experiential victory
• Believers exercise delegated authority by speaking God’s words against the enemy
• Believing salvation guarantees future reward frees Christians from present moral responsibility
• Christian character differences persist eternally even among the saved
• Christian sanctification practice derives from Temple priestly cleansing rituals
• Confession and repentance precede effective forgiveness petitions
• Different Greek words for ‘know’ distinguish false believers from carnal ones
• Divine love is one-sided while human love depends on reciprocity
• Doing God’s will, not merely professing it, defines the overcomer.
• Entering God’s future rest requires unremitting labor and effort
• Faith functions as a continual uninterruptible act of choice
• Fruit of the Spirit is reducible to Agape love
• Future authority positions in Christ’s kingdom depend on present faithfulness
• God defines good works by their source, not their visible content
• Greek distinguishes divergent loves that English collapses into one word
• Judgment ignores public reputation in favor of private fruitfulness
• Justification affects only the spirit; sanctification transforms the soul
• Justification is free while sanctification requires effort
• Justification is irreversible but a separate sanctification garment is required
• Justification must precede any effective sanctification cleansing
• Legalism paradoxically disables the power it aims to secure
• Overcoming is marked by choosing difficulty, not by worldly accomplishment
• Positional overcoming at conversion differs from experiential overcoming in daily life
• Proximity to God maps onto graded brightness zones in the Millennial Temple
• Reading scripture openly requires suppressing traditional presuppositions.
• Regeneration is only the prelude to the Christian’s real goal
• Religious claims require living examples to be understood and believed
• Resistance to torture requires an emotional bond to a beloved figure
• Salvation and kingdom inheritance are distinct for Christians
• Salvation and kingdom inheritance are distinct rewards requiring separate conditions
• Salvation’s ultimate purpose is ruling with Christ in the coming kingdom
• Satan genuinely possessed earthly kingdoms at the time of the temptation
• Spiritual readiness cannot be borrowed or transferred between believers
• The Bema Seat judgment evaluates believers’ failures as well as rewards
• The Catholic doctrine of purgatory traces to 2 Maccabees
• The five foolish virgins were saved believers excluded only from wedding intimacy
• The garmentless wedding guest was a saved believer, not a reprobate
• The Gizrah may be the literal architectural source of the ‘outer darkness’ imagery
• The Greek verb agapao can denote devotion to evil, unlike the noun Agape
• The Hebrew ‘wait’ couples abiding with being shaped by an impression
• The New Testament ‘evil servant’ means disqualified rather than wicked
• The New Testament term nikáō means victory over hostile powers.
• The sheep-and-goats passage is a literal narrative, not a parable
• The Shekinah Glory was God’s presence shown by light, fire, or cloud
• Unaddressed root causes of sin produce self-built defenses that enable further deception
• Unanswered prayer leads believers to abandon faith and hope
• Unlived truth cannot be transmitted to others