It took about 20 minutes to read this letter of Paul to the church in Colosse. When Paul was trying to word the encouragement that God had for all of us who are in Christ he pointed them away from the failures and separations of their past and focused their attention on the cross. Sometimes I forget all that God did there. The Message has a clear way of presenting what Jesus accomplished on the cross in chapter 2 verses 13-15;
“All sins forgiven, the slate wiped clean, that old arrest warrant canceled and nailed to Christ’s Cross. He stripped al the spiritual tyrants in the universe of their sham authority at the Cross and marched them naked through the streets.”
Paul shows that everything bad that happened to Jesus on Good Friday was in actuality placed upon the sinfulness of our lives.
The crimes of which we were guilty were named to the cross with him.
When Jesus was stripped naked and paraded through the city it was our sin nature that was humiliated.
Our selfishness and defiance was with him on the cross, emptied of any authority we thought we had.
Everything was a victory for God’s redemption and our sanctification on the day that Jesus died.
Stuart
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