… 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!
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