Thesis
True victory is not found in accumulating titles, possessions, or status, but in walking with Jesus — who has already crushed the enemy through His death and resurrection. Drawing from Romans 16 and Genesis 3, Pastor Hunter Jones shows that genuine, lasting victory is lived out when believers walk with purpose (offering their gifts to something greater than themselves), walk with others (embracing Christianity as a team sport), and walk in obedience (bringing their small, faithful surrender to God and trusting His power to meet them there).
Key points
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God promised victory over the enemy immediately after the Fall, and that promise was fulfilled in Jesus.
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The victory claim of Romans 16:20 — that God will crush Satan under the church's feet — is the foundation of walking in victory with Jesus.
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Walking in purpose means taking your time, talent, treasure, and testimony and offering them to something greater than yourself.
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Christianity is a team sport, and walking with others in biblical community is essential to going the distance with Jesus.
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Walking in obedience means bringing your small, faithful surrender to God and trusting His power to produce the miraculous.
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Before walking in purpose, with others, or in obedience, some must first walk to the cross and accept Jesus as Lord and Savior.
Outline
Introduction: The Problem with Accumulation
Pastor Hunter uses a humorous story about being late and a broader reflection on promotions and houses to show that the victories we pursue often feel like defeat. He introduces the question: what does real, true victory look like as defined by God?
Big Idea and Victory Claim (Romans 16:20)
Pastor Hunter reads Romans 16:20 — 'The God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet' — and frames it as one of scripture's greatest victory claims, written to people who felt defeated.
The Promise of Victory in Genesis 3
Tracing back to book one of the Bible, Pastor Hunter shows how God promised in Genesis 3:15 that a descendant of the woman would crush the serpent's head — the first pointer to Jesus — and how Jesus fulfilled that promise on the cross.
Key Point 1: Walk with Purpose
Drawing from Paul's commendation of faithful coworkers in Romans 16:1-16, Pastor Hunter argues that real victory comes from offering your gifts, time, talent, treasure, and testimony to something greater than yourself rather than accumulating for yourself.
Key Point 2: Walk with Others
Christianity is a team sport, not an individual one. Pastor Hunter notes that the 'your' in Romans 16:20 is plural — 'all y'all's feet' — and challenges the church to get connected in biblical community so they can go far together with Jesus.
Key Point 3: Walk in Obedience
God never asks people to do the miraculous — He asks for simple obedience, as seen with Moses at the Red Sea and the boy with five loaves and two fish. Pastor Hunter calls the church to small, intentional acts of obedience — reading the Bible, praying during a commute, committing to weekly service — and trusting God's power to meet them.
Gospel Invitation and Victory Celebration
Pastor Hunter invites those who have never accepted Jesus to do so, leads a prayer of surrender, and then celebrates the church's 2025 victories — including over 6,000 salvations, nearly 1,300 baptisms, and two church plants — as evidence that God is crushing the enemy through the faithful obedience of the church.
Memorable moments
walking with Jesus is walking in victory
Christianity is not an individual sport. I think a lot of times we take our American individualism and we transplant it into our faith. And that just doesn't work because Christianity is a team sport
If you want to go fast, go alone. But if you want to go far, go together
God never asks people to do the miraculous. Never
when Moses' obedience met God's power, the miraculous happened
The God of peace is crushing the enemy through all y'all
Application
Pastor Hunter calls the church to stop chasing accumulation and start walking in real, God-defined victory — and to do it in three practical, unglamorous ways. First, walk with purpose: identify the gifts, time, talent, treasure, and testimony God has given you and offer them back to Him through serving, giving, and living in a way that points others to Jesus. Second, walk with others: stop doing faith alone. Get into a life group, learn people's names, and commit to doing the distance of following Jesus in community. Third, walk in obedience: don't wait until you feel ready for the miraculous. Start small — five minutes in the Bible over breakfast, five minutes of prayer on your commute, committing to show up to church every week — and trust that when your obedience meets God's power, life change will follow. Victory in 2026 begins with a single faithful step.
