Category The New Life

By Reginald Wallis

CONTENTS

FOREWORD & PREFACE

CHAPTER 1:  IS CONSTANT VICTORY REALLY POSSIBLE FOR EVERY BELIEVER?

The Question Stated
What is the Victorious Life?
Is Christ Divided?
An Experimental Possibility
God’s Norm
The Threefold Enemy
Do You Believe This?
Standing and State
Study Guide

CHAPTER 2:  WHO IS THE TRAITOR WITHIN?

Inner Conflict
An Incessant Warfare
The “Self” Life
NOT the Body
The Residue of the “Old Man”
Includes “Indwelling Sin”
Cannot be Eradicated
Includes Human Goodness
Possesses a Will
Has its Lusts
Study Guide

CHAPTER 3: WHAT IS THE DEEPER MEANING OF THE CROSS?

Identification with Christ
“All Have Died”
Dead, Buried, Raised, Ascended
Three Calvary Facts
The Fact and the Experience
Study Guide

CHAPTER 4:  HOW DOES CALVARY BECOME REAL IN THE BELIEVER’S DAILY LIF...

By Reginald Wallis

FOREWORD

There are three tenses in the Gospel: past, present and future; and the present tense is the part of the Gospel with which Christian people, in general, seem to be least familiar. We all know that when we receive Christ as Savior, our past sins are dealt with and blotted out, and that when we die, or when the Lord comes again, we shall be forever with him. Past and future are wonderfully provided for in the Gospel. But what about the present?

Comparatively few Christians have dared to believe that they have a Savior who is just as able and just as faithful in providing a miraculous experience of salvation in the present tense, now and here while we are on earth, as He has done for our past and will do for our future...

By Reginald Wallis

CHAPTER ONE

IS CONSTANT VICTORY REALLY POSSIBLE FOR EVERY BELIEVER?

The Question Stated

This is a vitally important question for you and me, my brother or sister in Christ. Should a Christian expect and experience constant triumph, every day and all day, over sin and self? Is the “victorious life” really practical, or is it just an attractive subject for conference gatherings and an interesting topic for discussion? Is it merely a pet theme for extremists and fanatics, or is there actually a sane, Biblical experience of practical triumph within the reach of every believer, irrespective of temperament, circumstances, environment, or changing times and conditions?

Is it some great ideal to which we must ever seek to aspire in the vague hope that, after years of exper...

By Reginald Wallis

CHAPTER TWO

WHO IS THE TRAITOR WITHIN?

Inner Conflict

To understand God’s way of victory over sin and self, it is vitally important to recognize the conflict of flesh versus Spirit in the believer. Many a young Christian has been bothered about the continued recurrence of former sinful desires. As believers, they have been “born again” and are true children of God; they are as much “justified” before God as ever they will be; yet they are conscious, from time to time, that there is a traitor within who ever challenges the will of God in and through them (Ro. 7:21). With every impulse towards holiness, and every urge of the Holy Spirit towards whole-hearted consecration, there is ever present this other thing which “wars against the soul” (1 P. 2:11).

The Scripture view...

By Reginald Wallis

CHAPTER THREE

WHAT IS THE DEEPER MEANING OF THE CROSS?

Identification with Christ

Do you realize, my brother or sister, that there is a deeper meaning of the Cross? It constitutes a much neglected and vitally important aspect of the atoning work of the Lord Jesus Christ on Calvary. The substitutionary work of the Savior – his taking our place on the cross – is the only ground of a sinner’s justification, but it is important to realize that the Atonement, i.e. the whole of his accomplished work, embraces something more even than that. The Savior’s redemptive work also includes the glorious fact of “Identification“. This we must consider carefully under the illumination and guidance of the Holy Spirit in order to apprehend the divine way of victory...