omplete salvation from the dominion and
power of evil, which is a real victory--the only victory for the
believer in this present life and conflict. It is a second form or tense
of salvation, for it is possible to be saved from the condemnation and
penalty of sin, and still for a time to be under its dominion and power.
Salvation from the power of the world, the flesh, and the devil, may be
secured as freely and completely as the salvation from the penalty of
sin, and on the same terms; yet its terms and conditions are so unlike
the methods of the world that often it seems unreal, even to Christians.

No instructed person expects to be free from condemnation, or justified
before God, by virtue of his moral character; nor can there be freedom
from the power of sin by virtue of the resolutions of the human will.
Though the Christian life is impossible to human strength, it is within
the power of God; and He offers to supply all that He requires, even to
a completely victorious life. Since it is necessarily a Divine
undertaking, the human part can be no more than an attitude of
expectation or faith toward God,--an attitude which reckons self to be
helpless, and God alone to be sufficient. It is a perpetual realization
of the principle of faith and, therefore, at every point, contradicts
Satan's principle of self-help.

Here, as in every human effort to be God-like, Satan's ideals and
methods are so thrust upon the world that the natural dependence of the
creature upon the Creator is made to seem a weak and unreasonable thing.
This worldly mind has found a place in the Church and to a large extent,
in spite of the teachings of Scripture; and it is often as difficult to
inspire true expectation toward God in the Christian mind in the matter
of daily victory, as it is to move the self-righteous and
self-sufficient sinner to believe on Christ for regeneration.

True dependence upon the sufficiency of God is thus born of a vision of
the utter inability of the natural man to meet the demands of the
heavenly citizenship. The world citizen may wrestle against flesh and
blood to realize his moral ideals: but he has no heavenly standards to
fulfill; no mighty foe to face; and no conflict of natures. Therefore,
his low ideals may often be reached by virtue of his own resolution and
will. Especially will this method be adequate for the unregenerate, as
the energizing power of Satan is working in him to cause him both to
will and to