It is exactly the same sort of folly that leads the Christian to seek to add his own effort in the business of winning victory over the next temptation that assails him. “If we live by the Spirit [if we have been born again by the Spirit], by the Spirit let us also walk” (by the same supernatural power let us live day by day and hour by hour, letting God do it all by the Spirit) (Gal. 5:25).
God’s new spelling for “obey” is “believe.” And, as Mr. Trumbull put it to a Christian who was grieving because she did not have the faith to believe, “The faith for salvation is the faith for victory.” Faith is just believing the word of God.
A Christian Under Grace
Have you believed the good tidings of future salvation and glory? Believe the same good tidings for present salvation from sin.
If you are under grace, sin shall not have dominion; you are walking in the Spirit.
Christ is dwelling in your heart by faith.
You are freed from the law with its works.
Yet the law of God is in your heart and it is your nature to keep it.
You are a new creation.
You are walking in newness of life.