Deeper Life #53

Thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

—1 Corinthians 15:57

THE FUNDAMENTAL CHARACTERISTIC OF A life of faith is a definite breaking away of everything that ruled our sinful past, and a determined and disciplined claiming of God’s Word. The spiritual life of faith operates as unconsciously and naturally as our physical bodies, bringing us victory as a matter of course.

Sin rules our conscious lives apart from God. Entire sanctification removes this “personality of sin,” upsetting the conscious life and all its human reasoning, and puts a new “saintly personality” in its place. So to speak, the power of God begins the construction of a new consciousness.

Jesus Christ finished on the cross the greatest work in the world. He overcame Satan, death, and sin, so that “whosoever will” may become in Him a victor over Satan, death, and sin.

Prayer Thought: Father, I claim victory by virtue of what Jesus Christ did on the cross for me.

SUGGESTED READING: 1 Corinthians 15:55–58