"More Than Conqueror"
By Jessie Penn-Lewis
"In all these things we are more than conquerors through Him that loved us" (Rom. 8:37).
Calvary means that Christ not only bore on that Tree your sins, but that He carried to the Tree the sinner--carried you there. When you come to the point of recognizing that God does not patch up the old life but calls upon you to reckon it crucified and to take from Him a new one, you will find that the new life has in it all the characteristics which belong to it. The old Adam-life has its own characteristics, and the new Adam-life has its own characteristics.
It is necessary to repeat this message of the Cross again and again, for the truth only lays hold of us "line upon line" until at last it grips us and effectually works in us who believe.
Moreover, as the Representative Man, Christ not only carried to that Cross the sinner but through His death on that Cross, He utterly conquered Satan (Col. 2:15). There is therefore no need on the part of a Christian for a trace of the fear of Satan. Satan is an absolutely conquered foe to the souls who know the victory of Calvary.
"Fear hath torment." The finished work of Calvary ends the fear of death (Heb. 2:14-15) and fear of the prince of death.
On the Cross Christ took away your sins so that you might have the blotting out of them through His Blood. All the wicked spirits of Satan cannot bring them up to you and throw them at you. God Himself has blotted them out, saying, "I will remember them no more" (Heb. 8:12). That is salvation from the guilt and the penalty of sin.
But it is vitally important you understand that when God blots out sin, He blots out on the condition that you part with sin. God cannot blot out what you will not part with. When you know that your sins are blotted out, you are really begotten of God by the impartation of a new life.
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