Every believer is in Christ but every believer does not abide in Christ. To restfully and radically surrender to His life and to draw from His life and power to live the Christian life, is to abide in Him.
He said that He has overcome the world; and your life is hidden with Christ (the Overcomer) in God. As you abide in Him, you live the life of an overcomer because you are living by the life of the Overcomer.
“In Him is no sin. Whosoever abides in Him sins not.”–1 JOHN 3:5,6.
If you are abiding in Him then you can’t sin because there is no sin in Him. We sin when we don’t “abide” in Him and are overwhelmed by the “law of sin” that still lives in our flesh.
Temptation should not call us to step out with determination to try to deal with it; instead it should drive us inward to abide in Him where victory is found
Rom. 5:10, ”For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved by His life.”
Saved by his life; that is our victory. Our victory over the powers is a person, not a principal.
Colossians 3:11 says, Christ is in me and He is all I need
First Corinthians 15:57, “Thanks be to God who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.” The language in that verse is literally “who is giving us the victory in the present moment through the person of our Lord Jesus Christ.”
Victory over sin is not a formula that can be memorized, but it is a person who lives in us that can be realized.
2 Corinthians 12:9 says, “my grace is sufficient for you.” Again, the way that is written grammatically is “my grace is being sufficient for you in this moment.”
If He is being my victory right now in this moment and if His grace is being sufficient right now in this moment, my role then is to simply believe it; that is, TAKE IT.
Remember, in this walk in the Spirit, what we TAKE by faith He UNDERTAKES in power.