What God did for us.

What God did on our behalf for believers, through Christ's death on the cross.

Colossians 2:15-15 (NIV)

"When you were dead in your sins and in the uncircumcision of your sinful nature, God made you alive with Christ. He forgave us all our sins, having canceled the written code, with its regulations, that was against us and that stood opposed to us; he took it away, nailing it to the cross. And having disarmed the powers and authorities, he made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them by the cross."

Guilt can no longer work against believers. Satan the accuser, the source of guilt, was defeated by Christ when Christ died on the cross, when Christ shed His blood, when Christ was gloriously raised from the dead through the power of the Holy Spirit. Christ carried our guilt to the cross. He stood in for us and paid the price that was required for our guilt. Our faith in Christ becomes our basis for righteousness. Righteousness is imputed to us when we believe in Jesus.

Romans 10:4 (NIV)

"Christ is the end of the law so that there may be righteousness for everyone who believes."

2 Corinthians 5:21 (NIV)

"God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God."

Christ personally defeated Satan when Satan tempted him in the wilderness. For our benefit, on our behalf as believers, when Christ gave His life on the Cross, Christ defeated Satan once and for all.

Guilt and condemnation no longer defeats us like it did prior to Christ's death and resurrection. In Christ, the accuser's weapon of guilt has been nullified. It has been made useless. Publicly, the powers of darkness were disarmed from being able to use guilt as a weapon. Christ has made a public spectacle of these powers, celebrating their defeat by what He accomplished on the cross. Jesus did not do this for himself, He was already perfectly righteous. No, He did it for us, the sinners, the unrighteous, the unholy, the lost and unsaved. Christ defeated Satan for us. Do our lives reflect that victory, that triumph of Christ over Satan? Is it demonstrated by how we live, worship, love God and those around us?

2 Corinthians 2: 14 (NIV)

"But thanks be to God, who always leads us in triumphal procession in Christ and through us spreads everywhere the fragrance of the knowledge of him."

The victory has been won, Satan is a defeated foe. Jesus won. He triumphed. It is our job here on earth to enforce that victory in our lives. Jesus has given us a robe of righteousness. We stand not condemned. We have authority as believers on this earth. Let us enforce the victory that Jesus obtained on the cross.

(Inspired from reading Derek Prince's writings on spiritual warfare)