The sin problem is the problem of all problems. If the sin problem in your life is settled in God’s way, you will have the secret of solving all other problems in God’s way. Fellowship with God, peace, joy, freedom from anxiety, power for service, the right enjoyment and use of Bible study and prayer, all of these things and every gift of grace will be open to you when you get the sin question settled. At Victorious Life conferences, Christians come to the leaders and say that they are not troubled in the matter of getting victory over sin, but that they do not get results in their Christian service and they want the Holy Spirit for power in service. In every such case it is found that the real difficulty is the sin question: there is not complete, Spirit-given victory over inward sin. When that is settled the power in service and the results follow. When God came to choose a name for his Son, some one has pointed out, he went to the heart of the subject and called his name “Jesus,” because it is he that shall save his people from their sins. It is going to the heart of the Christian’s need, then, first to emphasize victory over sin as the road to all other blessings of the Abundant Life. What is God’s way of securing this Victory? There are two ways of getting money, or any other thing of value――either working for it, or receiving it as a gift. Two Ways to Seek Victory There are two ways of seeking after salvation――working for it or receiving it as a gift. But there are not two ways of _obtaining_ salvation or eternal life. For when a sinner works, he works sin; and the _wages_ of sin is death. Life is never earned. Death is. Life must be given. So the free gift of God, the only author of life, is eternal life. We are saved by Grace, not by works, for the least particle of “works” would make Grace void. There are two ways of seeking after the Victorious Life, present freedom from the law of sin――working for it, striving and struggling after it, or receiving it as a free gift, without effort. There are not two ways of _obtaining_ Victory. For when a saved sinner struggles with inward desires toward evil he is under the law――using his own efforts――and not under grace, and the struggle at some time or other always ends in defeat. The Victorious Life is a free gift from God. It cannot be earned. It therefore must be accepted on the same terms as salvation from the penalty of sin. It must be received as a gift. To enjoy a gift one has but to take it, and thank the giver. “Sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under law, but under grace” (Rom. 6:14). “My grace is sufficient for thee” (2 Cor. 12:9). To believe these words of God is to enjoy the gift of victory. “The law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and of death” (Rom. 8:2).