Introduction
INTRODUCTION
In the late nineteenth century A.B. Simpson, the founder of The Christian and Missionary Alliance, wrote two small books on the fullness of Christ as the answer to the Christian’s struggle with the self-life. For over a century these two books have ministered to those seeking a deeper walk with God. The Christ Life and The Christ Life and the Self-Life, classics in their own right, have been republished in this single volume entitled Christ in You.
Though written over a century ago this book is as up-to-date on the subtleties of the self-life as anything written today. Simpson is upbeat in the way he treats this subject. While being brutally realistic about man’s self-centeredness he offers a message of hope in Christ. With great simplicity he expounds the profound passages in John’s gospel that reveal the divine intention for Christ to indwell the Christian. Christ in us provides through His own resurrection-life full victory over the power of the sin-controlled self-life. Simpson’s view of Christ’s indwelling is instructional, inspirational, devotional, theological and practical. Applied sanctification can only be a reality when the Christian, by faith, is conscious of his union with the Lord Jesus Christ.
May God use this volume to help you learn the secret of His indwelling Presence, which truly is “the hope of glory.”