At its very centre, the life triumphant is right with God. It is “in Christ Jesus”; and so it is a redeemed life. The sense of triumph in life begins just there, when we are conscious that the guilt of sin is blotted out in the pardon of a reconciled God. Settle beyond recall, that the first step in the conquering life is to decide the great question of sin; and in order to attain triumph, make a clean breast of it. First of all, cast sin, and the sinner himself, upon the free and full grace of God in Christ Jesus, for salvation. Then determine to have done with sin for ever. Then, and supremely, rest not in any effort of self; rest in Jesus Christ to break the power of sin.

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