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Chapter 15


Christ’s Victory Means
We Can Live Victoriously



      Through Christ believers will gain the mastery, and inch by inch they will contest the ground, and obtain the victory, 3ST 253

      Only in the name and strength of the Conqueror can we conquer. When we are pressed with temptation, when unChristlike desires clamor for the mastery, let us offer fervent, importunate prayer to the heavenly Father in the name of Christ. This will bring divine aid. In the Redeemer’s name we may gain the victory. 4ST 533

      He did not suffer thus on His own account, but because of our sins, that we, relying on the merits of our Overcomer, might be victorious in His name. 3RH 139.

      There are obligations which bring us into conflict with natural feelings and propensities, and in fulfilling these obligations, we gain victory over every objectionable feature of our character. The warfare goes on, and thus we grow in grace. Thus our character is developed in the likeness of Christ, and we are prepared for a place among the blessed in the kingdom of God. 3RH 60

      Each morning let them say, I must live for Jesus today; I must love Him, and think of Him, and refuse to be led by the tempter to do a wrong action. Then they will be victors in the battle and a victory gained today fortifies the soul against tomorrow’s temptations. 3RH 381

      . . . every act of obedience to Christ, every act of self-denial for His sake, every trial well endured, every victory gained over temptation, is a step in the march to the glory of final victory. 2RH 228

      But every temptation resisted is a victory gained in subduing self; it bends the powers to the service of Jesus, and increases faith, hope, patience, and forebearance. 2ST 105

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      In God you will have victory and success. You will see the salvation of the Lord. 4ST 209

      Let us arise in faith, and press closer to Jesus. Let us rejoice in His love. We may obtain the most precious victories. There is help for us in God. Let us grasp the promises, and look to Calvary. Jesus died to save us from sin; then let us cease to sin, and open the heart wide that He may come in and abide with us. The loveliness of the character of Christ, must be seen in His followers. 2ST 230

      If we will trust Him, and commit our ways to Him, He will direct our steps in the very path that will result in our obtaining the victory over every evil passion, and every trait of character that is unlike the character of our divine Pattern. 2ST 215

      Living faith, expressed by a life of faithful obedience, will avail to lift us out of this bondage to the world. “This is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith.” 2ST 437

      If Christ is abiding in the soul, our prayers and works are wholly acceptable to God Through obedience to all the commandments of God, we are accepted in the Beloved We enter into the rights and privileges of Jesus, and the victories which He achieves. 2ST 458

      Our victory as believers is obtained through the grace of Christ, which He can and will bestow upon all who will put their trust in Him. 3ST 411

      It is laying right hold of God through Jesus Christ that will gain the victory. 6T III

      Do not feel that you are sufficient in your own strength. Only in the name of the Mighty Conqueror can you gain the victory. 4T 259

      Satan adapts his temptations to our circumstances. In every temptation he will present some bribe, some apparent good to be gained. But in the name of Christ we may have complete victory in resisting his devices. 1RH 159

      No amount of money can buy a single victory over the temptations of Satan. But that which money is valueless to obtain, which is integrity, determine effort, and moral power, will, through the name of Christ, obtain noble victories upon the point of appetite. 1RH 160

      It is only by the grace of God, combined with the most earnest efforts on our part, that we can gain the victory. 1RH 245

      Morning and evening we should obtain the victory for ourselves, in our own families. 1RH 363

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      Every time you are called upon to meet temptation, it is your duty to obtain a victory through the grace of Christ; and when you endure temptation in the strength of Christ, you are a conqueror. 2RH 236

      Every day we are to be gaining the victory. 2RH 417

      There is enough to discourage us everywhere, but we must look to the Author and Finisher of our faith, and by beholding His loveliness and purity become changed in the same image. You can feast your soul on His love; you can know that you are obtaining the victory every day; you can rejoice in the Lord. 2RH 418

      Defeat today prepares the way for still greater defeat tomorrow; victory today insures an easier victory tomorrow. 2RH 457

      A life spent in resisting temptation, in self-denial, in diligence in good works, in gaining victories over sin, will shine forth amid the darkness of the world, and will glorify God. 2RH 458

      It is through the co-operation of man with God that the believer may come off victorious. 2RH 623

      We must have the mind which was in Jesus. Read what composes the Christian’s armor. Take this armor, and put it on, trusting in God to give you the victory. 3RH 433

      . . . having embodied in Himself the love of God, Christ has imparted it to those who believe on His name, that the copies of His character may be multiplied. 3RH 552

      If God, the great Master-worker, is with us, we shall withstand the great temptations that are to try us, and we shall remain loyal and true to principle. We shall achieve victories which the littleness of our faith has led us to regard as impossible. 3RH 627

      The life of Christ’s disciples is to be like His, a series of uninterrupted victories, not seen to be such here, but recognized as such in the great hereafter. 4RH 263

      The fact that our deliverance from the bondage of evil habits costs the Lord His life, is the assurance of deliverance; for His life has proved victorious over every temptation. 4RH 474

      We all need to gain greater victories than we have yet gained, and we may do this if we will reach high enough and cling close enough. 5RH 148

      Christ is glorified in His saints. He, the propitiation for their sins,

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will be glorified in all who believe in Him as their Saviour, all who commit themselves and their interests to His guidance. They are on Christ’s side, known by the manifestation that Christ makes through them of His power to save. They obtain victory after victory over the world, the flesh, and the devil. They are made perfect in their victory through Christ. 5RH 221

      It is by unceasing endeavor that we maintain the victory over the temptations of Satan. Christian integrity must be sought with resistless energy, and maintained with a resolute fixedness of purpose. 5RH 459

      Man does not need to be corrupted. May God help us to accept by faith the victory that has been won in our behalf, and make it ours. 5RH 483

      (Christ) will enable those who receive Him to build up characters free from all tendencies that Satan reveals. We can resist the enemy and all his forces. The battle will be won, the victory gained, by him who chooses Christ as his leader, determined to do right because it is right. 6RH 38

      All true obedience comes from the heart. It was heart-work with Christ. And if we consent, He will so identify Himself with our thoughts and aims, so blend our hearts and minds into conformity to His will, that when obeying Him we shall be but carrying out our own impulses. The will, refined and sanctified, will find its highest delight in doing His service. 6RH 45

      Through the grace given us, we may achieve victories which, because of our defects of character and the smallness of our faith, may have seemed to us impossible. To every one who offers himself to the Lord for service, withholding nothing, is given power for the attainment of measureless results. 6RH 84

      When we are really ready to yield up a cherished indulgence, God will not fail to give the victory in its removal. 6RH 107

      These words are full of instruction, and strike the keynote of victory. The apostle presents before the believers the ladder of Christian perfection, every step of which represents continual advancement in the knowledge of God, and in the climbing of which there is to be no standstill. 6RH 279

      We must appropriate these promises to ourselves that we may overcome unbelief and get the victory over every besetment, perfecting a character that will meet the approval of heaven. 6RH 330.

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      The Divine power combined with human effort will give to all perfect and entire victory. 1ST 58

      Your Christian life may be a victorious one . . . (Jesus) will bring divine aid to be combined with human effort; and He will bind upon your brow the laurels of the conqueror, just as though you had yourself wrought out the victory. 1ST 503

      We are to be overcomers. We are to gain the victory here and now; we are to obtain a precious experience in the things of God now. If we do not get that experience and victory in this life, we shall never obtain it. 2ST 267.

      Through the power of Christ they may be victorious over every besetment. 2ST 477

      We are not authorized to trust in ourselves; Christ is our helper, our sufficiency. It is His to give us the victory. 4ST 30

      When we take the Saviour at His word, and do those things that are pleasing in His sight, complete unity will prevail. We shall constantly grow more like our Leader. His character has been clearly revealed, and we have been plainly told that we are to be like Him. Our watchword is, “Go forward.” Pressing onward to the Light of life means victory. 4ST 65

      We need to fear lest the promise being left us of victory through Christ, we should come short of it. 4ST 143

      True prayer takes hold upon Omnipotence, and gains the victory. Upon his knees the Christian obtains strength to resist temptation. 4ST 220.

      Christ came to conquer this foe, in order that through divine grace we also might obtain the victory over the enemy of our souls. Standing at the head of humanity, Christ, by perfect obedience to God’s commandments, demonstrated to the universe that man could withstand Satan’s temptations. 4ST 277

      He came to be their Surety, to overcome in their behalf, to live for them a sinless life, that through His power they might obtain the victory over evil. 4ST 294

For Further Study
4ST 347
YI 39
YI 519
YI 526
YI 541
COL 404
1SM 338-39
1SM 364
AA 531
3T 43
4T 86
4T 349
4T 616
5T 231
5T 649



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