… For this purpose the Son of
God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil. 1 John 3:8
It is part of the devil’s business to keep
the Christian’s spirit imprisoned. He knows that the believing and justified
Christian has been raised up out of the grave of his sins and trespasses. From
that point on, Satan works that much harder to keep us bound and gagged,
actually imprisoned in our own grave clothes!
He knows that if we continue in this kind
of bondage we will never be able to claim our rightful spiritual heritage. He
knows also that while we continue bound in this kind of enslavement we are not
much better off than when we were spiritually dead.
This is one reason why the Christians in
today’s churches are behaving like a flock of frightened sheep—so intimidated
by the devil that we can’t even say “Amen!”
I am sure that it is not glorifying to our
God that Christians should be so intimidated and silenced in our day. It was
Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, who came down and took our human body for
Himself. He was a man, born of a woman, a man wearing our own nature—but He was
also God!
He went out to the cross and they
sacrificed Him there. The Father, God Almighty, accepted His sacrifice as the
one, final fulfillment and consummation of all the sacrifices ever made on
Jewish altars. After three days, He came out of the grave, then ascended as Victor
over death and hell!
Believing this, we ought to be the most
fearless, the happiest and most God-assured people in the whole world!
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