The Key to Triumphant Living

… The KEY, in a statement, is CHRIST IN YOU…THE HOPE OF GLORY. It is by the Holy Spirit that Christ comes to live in the human spirit, abides to master the human spirit, and continues to minister through the human spirit to a world in desperate need.

There is much emphasis today on the need of a new dynamic. A trumpet sounds out a new possibility or a new power and thousands are ready and eager to listen. There are uncertain sounds in the area of renewal which bypass or disregard the ministry of the Holy Spirit.

These sounds are destined to die out among the howling winds of human need.

“Honor the Holy Ghost!” was the plea of an old man to Dwight L. Moody in the beginning days of his evangelistic ministry. He never forgot the admonition. That movement or person which does not honor the Spirit cannot succeed. Those who honestly, scripturally, and sanely honor the Holy Spirit as He magnifies Christ cannot fail… HE IS THE KEY…LIVING IN ME…BY THE HOLY SPIRIT!

There are many ways to say it:

Hannah W. Smith calls it THE CHRISTIAN’S SECRET TO A HAPPY LIFE;

Charles Trumbull, VICTORY IN CHRIST;

Ian Thomas, THE SAVING LIFE OF CHRIST;

Stuart Briscoe, THE FULNESS OF CHRIST;

A. B. Simpson, THE LARGER LIFE;

Harold Wildish, THE GLORIOUS SECRET;

F. B. Meyer, THE EXCHANGED LIFE;

G. B. Duncan titles it THE LIFE OF CONTINUAL REJOICING:

Watchman Nee, THE NORMAL CHRISTIAN LIFE;

Ruth Paxson, LIFE ON THE HIGHEST PLANE;

and still others such as Huegel, Barbour, Maxwell, McConkey, Redpath, Hunter, Tryon, Murray, Finney, and Letgers have varying terms for what Jesus simply called LIFE MORE ABUNDANT!

This quality of life has been appropriately called the Spirit-controlled Life, the Christ-filled Life, the Overcoming Life, Life in the Heavenlies, and the Key to Everything.

Whatever it is called, it is nothing less than all of Christ…RESIDENT IN…REIGNING OVER…AND RELEASED THROUGH the human life. This is the master key. This is the KEY TO TRIUMPHANT LIVING. I do not know of a lock it doesn’t fit.

JRT

from the Introduction to The Key to Triumphant Living