Overcoming Resistance - Bearing the Image of Christ

1 John 5

4 For whatsoever is born of God overcomes the world (if we follow God’s Prescribed Order, we will overcome the world): and this is the victory that overcomes the world, even our Faith. (John is speaking here of Faith in Christ and the Cross, which then gives the Holy Spirit latitude to work within our lives [Rom. 8:1–2, 11].)
5 Who is he who overcomes the world, but he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God? (It is not he who “does,” but who “believes.”)

Swaggart, J. (2005). The Expositor’s Study Bible (pp. 2174–2175). Jimmy Swaggart Ministries.