”For we’ve been buried with him into his death. Our “baptism into death” also means we were raised with him when we believed in God’s resurrection power, the power that raised him from death’s realm. This “realm of death” describes our former state, for we were held in sin’s grasp. But now, we’ve been resurrected out of that “realm of death” never to return, for we are forever alive and forgiven of all our sins! He canceled out every legal violation we had on our record and the old arrest warrant that stood to indict us. He erased it all—our sins, our stained soul—he deleted it all and they cannot be retrieved! Everything we once were in Adam has been placed onto his cross and nailed permanently there as a public display of cancellation. Then Jesus made a public spectacle of all the powers and principalities of darkness, stripping away from them every weapon and all their spiritual authority and power to accuse us. And by the power of the cross, Jesus led them around as prisoners in a procession of triumph. He was not their prisoner; they were his!“
Isn’t this such a powerful reminder of what Christ has won for us? We are victorious through Him and in Him. So let’s live like it. Let’s live as the victorious ones who have received as our inheritance, forgiveness and new life, along with the power and authority over every demonic power and principality. It’s time we start living in the reality of the victory of Jesus, and operate as those who are with King Jesus who has defeated death and every demonic power once and for all. We have so much to be thankful for, and I challenge everyone listening today to shift out of a mindset of weakness and failure and choose to put on a mindset of strength and victory in Christ Jesus our Lord.
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