Lesson 4 Warring Against the Flesh
Questions 4 and 5
We know by now that the Bible never includes details without reason. The Bible tells us that it was "at the time when kings go off to war" that King David was not off at war but walking around on his roof, indulging his flesh. God is highlighting for us a particular danger.
Friend, do you know that we often fall because we're living in comfort and ease when we should be at war? We are sleeping when we should be fighting? You are a soldier, and so you should be fighting! The time will come when you can rest, but if you're still alive, it's time to get up, suit up, stand up and fight!
Now lest we lose sight of our first foundational principle in our zeal to fight, I invite you to come to the cross for a moment. See Jesus there, hanging in the darkness? He's beaten to a pulp and is suffering both bodily and in His soul (since God has made His soul an "offering for sin" - Isaiah 53:10), and He is dying alone, having drunk the cup of God's wrath against sin.
But what is He doing there? I tell you He's winning the battle for you! He's stomping on the head of Satan (Genesis 3:15) and destroying all his work! "The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the devil's work" (1 John 3:8).
Notice how the cross was the greatest victory over the most intense battle ever fought:
"When you were dead in your sins and in the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made you alive with Christ. He forgave us all our sins, 14 having canceled the charge of our legal indebtedness, which stood against us and condemned us; he has taken it away, nailing it to the cross. 15 And having disarmed the powers and authorities, he made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them by the cross." Colossians 2:13-15 (NIV)
Question 4. From Colossians 2:13-15, list everything that happened at the cross:
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