Christ, the Conqueror God could not annul what Adam had done, and man must wait until the deliverer had come. Christ has broken the Lordship of Satan over the human race. He has brought to nought absolutely the one who has for ages held the authority in the realm of death (Hebrews 2:14). Here there are things which we want to note. Christ did not bring Satan to nought for Himself. Satan was never lord over Christ. The Son of God who had lived in eternity on an equality with the Father was not touched by Adams crime of high treason, which made Satan the lord of the human race (Philippians 2:2-8). Even when He became a man, Christ was free from Satans dominion, for He was not born of natural generation. He was God, Incarnate, and by reason of His Deity, He remained greater than Satan and his world-rulers. Christ said, The prince of this world comes and has nothing (or no part) in me, in John 14:30. The Incarnation of Christ gave Him no relationship to Satan. His humanity did not subject Him to the god of this world. He had the same kind of humanity that Adam had before his crime of high treason. Therefore, in the life of Christ upon the earth, we have a sample life of a man free from the lordship of Satan. Satan obeyed Him, disease and sickness were His servants, and every force of nature obeyed His command. Therefore, we can see that Christ did not conquer Satan for Himself. die conquered him for man. Although Christ was free from Satans dominion and man wasnt, Christ could break the power of disease over a mans life and cast out demons, but humanity remained within the authority of Satan. They needed freeing from his lordship. They needed deliverance from his nature out of which came selfishness, jealousy, the reign of sin, disease, and rebellion toward God. The lordship of Satan over humanity, over the individual, must be broken by a man; therefore, on the cross Christ identified Himself with spiritual death, the nature of Satan, and as one in union with us, He conquered Satan on behalf of the human race. II Corinthians 5:21, Him who knew no sin he made to be sin on our behalf ; that we might become the righteousness of God in him. We do not know the exact nature of that combat; we only know that when Christ arose from the dead, as a man, on our behalf, He flung off from Himself the conquered principalities and powers. Colossians 2:15, Having despoiled the principalities and powers, he made a show of them openly, triumphing over them in it. We do not know the exact nature of Adams treason whereby Satan became his lord and lord of the human race; but we know that when Adam faced God in the Garden, his nature had been changed, and that in his life a new master was reigning, Satan. Although we do not know exactly how, we know that one man crowned Satan as lord of the human race. Luke 4:6-12, For it hath been delivered unto me; and to whomsoever I will I give it. Even so, we do not know exactly how, but we know that one man, Jesus Christ, through His death and resurrection dethroned this man-crowned lord, Satan. And when Christ entered the Holy of Holies with His own blood, God recognized that complete Redemption from Satans authority and dominion had been wrought for the human race. Hebrews 9:12, But through His own blood entered in once for all into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us. The first man was cast forth from the presence of God, because Satan had become his Master, and the human race was identified in that rejection (Genesis 3:22-24). Then the time came when a man who had once been made sin and forsaken of God entered the Holy of Holies and was joyfully accepted, because the reign of Satan over man had come to nought. Hebrews 10:10, By which will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Christ once for all. Man had been sanctified by the offering of Christ. To sanctify means to set apart, to separate. Man had not only been freed from Satans dominion, but he had also been as separated from Satans authority as Christ was before He became sin. There had been made a remission of sins that were the result of spiritual death. Hebrews 10:18, Now where remission of these is there is no more offering for sin. And man had been declared perfect before God. Hebrews 10:14, For by one offering He hath perfected forever them that are sanctified. When Christ was accepted and seated in the very Holy of Holies at the right hand of God, the entire human race was also (Ephesians 2:5-6). Christ is the conqueror, because He has broken Satans lordship over man. Hebrews 2:14, Since then the children are sharers in flesh and blood, He also Himself in like manner partook of the same that through death He might bring to nought him that had the authority of death, that is the devil. The Bible in the Light of Our Redemption Kindly share this post
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