VICTOR

This verse is taken from:
Colossians 2. 12-15; Hebrews 2. 14-15.
Thought of the day for:
4 October 2022

Bunyan had it right when, in his Pilgrim’s Progress, ‘Christian’ says the following words as he kneels before the empty cross and loses his burden of sin;

‘Must here be the beginning of my bliss?
Must here the burden fall from off my back?
Must here the strings that bound it to me crack?
Blest cross! Blest sepulchre! Blest rather be
The Man that here was put to shame for me!’

We too must take our place at the foot of His cross today for this meditation of ‘the Victor’. What a triumph was wrought at the cross! How complete a Victor sweeps the field of all who dare to oppose! He stands alone, triumphant, and His spoils fill the universe. When all was done here, there were no foes left to fight and no judgement left to bear. No more must God shut men out of heaven. His love has paid the price in full and rests on this completed work. This is the place called Calvary; this is our Lord Jesus Christ!

At this place, He was alone, desolate, forsaken of God and men, beset by malicious foes seen and unseen, natural and spiritual. He pays in full the divinely required price for human redemption and totally decimates His enemies. These few verses in Colossians are the monument to His eternal victory.

In His mighty work on the cross the Lord Jesus provided the basis upon which God can forgive ‘you all trespasses’, v. 13, and He puts the cancellation mark upon the bill of debt we owed so that none can ever raise the account again, v. 14. Then He stripped off and dispossessed the spiritual usurpers of that which is rightly His, v. 15. This is the Victor and the victory of Calvary.

In yesterday’s study, the principalities and powers over which He is head were the righteous ones. Those over which He is here triumphant are the ones H. C. G. Moule calls, ‘the dreadful hierarchy of evil’. They must have reeled back in fear as He ascended up on high. Defeated, they await their eternal doom, while here men bless the Victor and possess the spoils He brought in for them at the place called Calvary.

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