
COLOSSIANS 2:13-15 FREEDOM, FORGIVENESS AND VICTORY
Three lessons stand out here
Because Jesus ‘wiped out the handwriting of requirements that was against us’, God’s law no longer condemns us (there will be no bailiffs at our door!). Christ has cancelled our debt and the law has no grounds to accuse us. Romans 8 tells us that ‘there is … no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus’ (vv. 1–4ff.).
Satan is a defeated foe. He is not ‘put out of existence’, for we still wrestle with him even now (Eph. 6:12), but Christians will have the final victory as they are on the winning side.
It is folly to think that if our good deeds outweigh our…
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