Some folks look with dread upon he thought of having to wage a continual warfare with self and worldly lusts. That is because they do not a s yet know anything about the joy of victory; they have experienced only defeat. But it isn't so doleful a thing to battle constantly, when there is a continual victory. Faith is the depending upon the word of God only, and expecting that world only, to do what the word says. Justification by faith, then, is justification by depending upon the word of God only, and expecting that word only, to accomplish it. And thus, by the divine power that he received through faith in God, he, in our flesh, utterly quenched every inclination of that flesh, and effectually killed at its root every desire of the flesh; and so "condemned sin in the flesh." And in so doing, he brought complete victory, and divine power to maintain it, to every soul in the world. All this he did "that the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit." This victory, in its fullness, is free to every soul in Christ Jesus. It is received by faith in Jesus," which he has wrought out in perfection, and has given to every believer in him. For "this is the victory which over-cometh the world, even our faith."