What the Victorious Life is; how to make it one’s own in practical experience; how it may be not only entered into, but maintained; how it differs in life-and-death ways from false substitutes for Victory,—these and other questions that are perplexing many a burdened and seeking Christian are discussed here and answered out of God’s word.
Closest fellowship with Mr. McQuilkin for five years, when we were together daily in editorial work, enables me to know that he has come to his present convictions after exhaustive Bible study, frequent conference with mature and trusted Bible students, and wide reading in the best works, new and old, in this field; but above all, after his rich personal experience, through surrender and faith, of Christ’s freely offered power and grace to meet all needs in the believer’s life. With thanksgiving to the Captain of our Salvation, who never asks us to win victories for Him, but Who has already won all our victories for us, This book is prayerfully commended in His Name.
Charles Gallaudet Trumbull.
CONTENTS
| A Word of Explanation | [vii] | |
| Preface to Second Edition | [ix] | |
| I. | What Is the Victorious Life? | [1] |
| II. | Out of Bondage Into Liberty | [13] |
| III. | God’s New Spelling for “Obey” | [22] |
| IV. | When Temptation Strikes in the Victorious Life | [31] |
| V. | Conquest of Temptation in the Victorious Life | [38] |
| VI. | How Jesus Lived the Victorious Life | [47] |
| VII. | Serving With the “Mind of Christ” | [55] |
| VIII. | The Second Coming and the Victorious Life | [63] |
| IX. | Christian Science and the Victorious Life | [72] |
| X. | Is the Victorious Life a Second Blessing? | [82] |
| XI. | Continuing and Growing in Victory | [94] |
| XII. | Can Man Be Free From Sin? | [102] |
| XIII. | The Holy Spirit in the Victorious Life | [119] |
A WORD OF EXPLANATION
By the Author
Most of these “studies” have been published, or are yet to be published, as editorials or articles in The Sunday School Times. There has been added an introductory article written particularly for those who may have little acquaintance with the meaning of the Victorious Life.
Each chapter has been prepared as an article complete in itself, but there are three pairs of articles which form closely connected studies. The chapters entitled, “Out of Bondage Into Liberty,” and “God’s New Spelling for 'Obey’” form one study on the relation of law and grace in the life of the Christian. The two chapters on temptation form one study. The chapter on “How Jesus Lived the Victorious Life” and the one which follows on “Serving with the Mind of Christ” form a connected study on the practical meaning for us of our Lord’s humanity.