Fighting a Defeated Foe
 

Fighting a Defeated Foe

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Title: Fighting a Defeated Foe---------------------------- Date: 3/22/2000
Keywords:    "
forgiveness" "Satan"


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Passage: Colossians 2:13-15*

13. And when you were dead in your transgressions and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He made you alive together with Him, having forgiven us all our transgressions,

14. having canceled out the certificate of debt consisting of decrees against us and which was hostile to us; and He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross.

15. When He had disarmed the rulers and authorities, He made a public display of them, having triumphed over them through Him.

Questions

1. According to verse 13, which of the following words best describes a person’s state prior to becoming a Christian?

confused sick
lost dead
lonely

2. According to verse 14, what has God done with the Christian’s sin?

 

3. According to verse 15, what did God do to the “rulers and authorities” (Paul is talking about demonic rulers and authorities here) when Jesus died on the cross.

 

Practical help

Three truths stand out from this passage. One, putting your trust in Christ for salvation transfers you from spiritual death to spiritual life. Two, the Christian has been forgiven of his sins. They have all been “nailed to the cross.” Three, demonic forces were defeated by Jesus’ death on the cross and are no longer an overpowering threat to anyone who has placed his/her faith in Jesus.

Struggling against the temptation toward Internet porn? Remember that you have been made alive in Christ - what business does a spiritually alive person have looking at smut? Remember that you have been forgiven - what a comfort to know that your past sins with respect to porn have been forgiven by Jesus, even that last time you looked at it about which you have been berating yourself. You’re forgiven! Your slate has been wiped clean. What freedom to know THAT! And, then, remember that Jesus has defeated the enemy of your soul - Satan is the Father of lies, including the lie that says that there is “life” in pornography. The Liar is defeated. The Champion of truth, Jesus, reigns. Walk in that truth the next time you are tempted to click on porn!


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