And having disarmed the powers and authorities, He made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them by the cross.Having stripped the principalities and the powers, he made a show of them openly, triumphing over them in it.And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it.having despoiled the principalities and the powers, he made a show of them openly, triumphing over them in it.
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… and his demonic powers Colossians 2 verse 15 and this gave Jesus joy and let me ask you very practically does this give you joy? And when you come to moments in your life of obstacle, little tiny obstacles, none of us are called to the obstacle of the cross in the way Jesus was. Our obstacles pale in comparison to his great obstacle. When you come to your obstacles, do you reach for the joy of Satan's defeat as part of your motivation in choosing holiness, righteousness, love, following the leading of the Holy Spirit. Do it. Make it practical. Number three. Jesus then mentions a third joy, and this is the saving of his people. This is John 12, 32. And I, when I'm lifted up from the earth, will draw all people to myself. he would be lifted up from the earth. First, by being lifted up to the cross. John immediately adds that in verse 33. So his lifting up is a lifting up to the cross that he might save people from every tribe and every tongue and every nation. …
But how much more glorious was the victory of the Man, Christ Jesus, over His great adversary and ours! When "Jesus of Nazareth, the King of the Jews," was nailed to the Cross, Satan thought that he had won the day. The old serpent had stung Him to death, vainly imagining that all was over with Him. I think I see the arch-fiend gloating over the awful agonies of the dying Savior and maliciously taunting Him as He hung there apparently forsaken by God and man. "Ah," he said, "Seed of the woman, I have indeed bruised Your heel. I have made men reject You and put You to death! I have vexed and tormented You, I have scorned and scouted You and You have not a word to say for Yourself. And now Your soul must soon depart out of Your body." Yet as the devil was still pouring out his vainglorious boasts and taunts, with a mighty voice, the expiring Savior cried, "It is finished," and in that moment His soul sprang upon the enemy and utterly routed him forever! "You have conquered, O Galilean!" is said to have been the dying cry of Julian the apostate, and Satan might have said the same, for when Jesus nailed to His Cross the handwriting that was against us, "having spoiled principalities and powers, He made a show of them openly, triumphing over them in Himself," for that is the marginal reading of Colossians 2:15 and, therefore, with Dr. Watts— "I sing my Savior's wondrous death; …
And then the production of this last effect, is a more glorious manifestation of power, than the work of creation; because, though in creation, the terms are very distant—as nothing is very remote from being—yet there is no opposition. Nothing makes no opposition to the creating power of God.—But in redemption, the divine power meets with and overcomes great opposition. There is great opposition in a state of sin to a state of grace. Men’s lusts and corruptions are exceedingly opposite to grace and holiness; and greatly resist the production of the effect. But this opposition is completely overcome in actual redemption. Besides, there is great opposition from Satan. The power of God is very glorious in this work, because it therein conquers the strongest and most powerful enemies. Power never appears more illustrious than in conquering. Jesus Christ, in this work, conquers and triumphs over thousands of devils, strong and mighty spirits, uniting all their strength against him. Luke xi. 21. “When a strong man armed keepeth his palace, his goods are in peace: but when a stronger than he shall overcome him, he taketh from him all his armour wherein he trusted, and divideth his spoil.” Col. ii. 15. “And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a show of them openly, triumphing over them in the cross.” 2. The justice of God is exceedingly glorified in this work. God is so strictly and immutably just, that he would not spare his beloved Son when he took upon him the guilt of men’s sins, and was substituted in the room of sinners. He would not abate him the least mite of that debt which justice demanded. Justice should take place, though it cost his infinitely dear Son his precious blood; and his enduring such extraordinary reproach, and pain, and death in its most dreadful form. …
It was not the will of the infinitely wise and holy Governor of the world, that things should remain in this confusion; this reign of evil, which had prevailed and exalted itself to such a height. But he had a design of subduing it; and delivering an elect part of the world from it, and exalting them to the possession of the greatest good, and to reign in the highest glory, out of a state of subjection to all these evils. And he chose his Son as the person most fit for an undertaking that was infinitely too great for any mere creature: and he has undertaken the work of our redemption. And though these evils are so many and so great, and have prevailed to such a degree, and have risen to such a height, and have been, as it were, all combined together; yet wherein they have exalted themselves, Christ, in the work of redemption, appears above them. He hath gloriously prevailed against them all, and brings them under his feet; and rides forth, in the chariots of salvation, over their heads; or leading them in triumph at his chariot wheels. He appears in this work infinitely higher and mightier than they, and sufficient to carry his people above them, and utterly to destroy them all. 1. Christ appears gloriously above all evil in what he did to procure redemption for us in his state of humiliation, by the righteousness he wrought out, and the atonement he made for sin. The evils mentioned, never seemed so much to prevail against him as in his sufferings: but in them, the foundation was laid for their overthrow. In them he appeared above Satan. Though Satan never exalted himself so high, as he did in procuring these sufferings of Christ; yet, then, Christ laid the foundation for the utter overthrow of his kingdom. He slew Satan, as it were, with his own weapon, the spiritual David cut off this Goliath’s head with his own sword; and he triumphed over him in his cross. ” Having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a show of them openly, triumphing over them in it:” i. e. in his cross, mentioned in the preceding words. Then the wisdom of Christ appeared gloriously above the subtlety of Satan. Satan, that old serpent, used a great deal of subtlety to procure Christ’s death; and doubtless, when he had accomplished it, thought he had obtained a complete victory; being then ignorant of the contrivance of our redemption. But so did the wisdom of Christ order things, that Satan’s subtlety and malice, should be made the very means of undermining the foundations of his kingdom; and so he wisely led him into the pit that he had digged. …