Jesus Christ Has Gained The Victory

Jesus Christ Has Gained The Victory

Colossians 2:23  These things indeed have an appearance of wisdom in self-imposed religion, false humility, and neglect of the body, but are of no value against the indulgence of the flesh.

From the beginning, Satan has tried to have men live according to the knowledge of good and evil.  The enemy of our soul does not mind if we have an appearance of wisdom with self-imposed religion, false humility, and neglect of the body.  The true measure of victory is not arrived with great will power or self-imposed traditions.  Man has devised many practices to find victory over the indulgence of the flesh.  God has made a way of victory over the indulgences of the flesh.  Victory over sin is not evasive or elusive!  Victory over sin is in Jesus Christ crucified.

Colossians 2:20  Therefore, if you died with Christ from the basic principles of the world, why, as though living in the world, do you subject yourselves to regulations;  21  "Do not touch, do not taste, do not handle,"  22  which all concern things which perish with the using; according to the commandments and doctrines of men?

Here in Colossians 2:20 the truth is revealed.  If you died with Christ from the basic principles of the world you should no longer subject yourselves to regulations of the world.  Do not touch, taste or handle the commandments and doctrines of men.  Salvation is Christ centered.  The object of your faith must ever be Jesus Christ.  We start our scripture at the end of Colossians 2 lets back up.

Colossians 2:11  In Him you were also circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, by putting off the body of the sins of the flesh, by the circumcision of Christ, 

Our salvation is founded by putting off the sins of the flesh and putting on the circumcision of Christ.  Jesus came to save us from our sins.  Jesus said we must die to self and the work is completed by putting on of Jesus Christ.

Colossians 2:13  And you, being dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He has made alive together with Him, having forgiven you all trespasses,  14  having wiped out the handwriting of requirements that was against us, which was contrary to us.  And He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross.  15  Having disarmed principalities and powers, He made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them in it.

Sin has been handled by Jesus Christ.  Jesus wiped out the handwriting of requirements that was against us.  That which was against you has been nailed to the cross.  It is time for you to believe that which was against you has been put away by Jesus.  Jesus disarmed principalities and powers; He made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them.  Jesus has won the necessary victory.  You can trust in the provision Jesus has made!

Colossians 2:16  So let no one judge you in food or in drink, or regarding a festival or a new moon or sabbaths,  17  which are a shadow of things to come, but the substance is of Christ.  18  Let no one cheat you of your reward, taking delight in false humility and worship of angels, intruding into those things which he has not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,  19  and not holding fast to the Head, from whom all the body, nourished and knit together by joints and ligaments, grows with the increase that is from God.

What you think about Jesus determines your destiny.  What you think of Jesus Christ determines your level of victory.  Jesus Christ is the substance of the new covenant.  All of the law and the prophets pointed to the coming Messiah.  The law was but a shadow, types, and pattern of things to come.  Jesus Christ is the fulfillment of the shadows, patterns and types found in the old covenant.  False religions are many times based on the shadows, types and patterns found under the law.  As such, many errors in doctrine are surrounded by a portion of some truth and taken out of context promises victory.  Many wise sounding practices are not founded in the truth of who Jesus is and what He has done.  Colossians warns us to hold fast to our head- Jesus Christ.

Galatians 3:22  But the Scripture has confined all under sin, that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.  23  But before faith came, we were kept under guard by the law, kept for the faith which would afterward be revealed.  24  Therefore the law was our tutor to bring us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith.  25  But after faith has come, we are no longer under a tutor.  26  For you are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus.

Faith in Jesus Christ is the exclusive way to victory and there is no other way to victory.  We are sons of God through faith in Jesus Christ.   After faith has come we are no longer under the tutor of the law.  Many men try and derive their victory through practice of the law or some kind of man made rule.  Victory over sin is found only through faith in Jesus Christ.  The only way to become a son of God is through faith in Jesus Christ and there is no other way.

1 John 5:1  Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God, and everyone who loves Him who begot also loves him who is begotten of Him.

What you think of Jesus Christ determines if you are born of God!  Hold on to your confession of faith in Jesus.  It is the most valuable thing you possess.

Galatians 3:1  O foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you that you should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was clearly portrayed among you as crucified?  2  This only I want to learn from you: Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?  3  Are you so foolish? Having begun in the Spirit, are you now being made perfect by the flesh?  4  Have you suffered so many things in vain; if indeed it was in vain?  5  Therefore He who supplies the Spirit to you and works miracles among you, does He do it by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?

There is a bewitching factor that satan wants to draw the saints into.  It is the same deception he has practiced from the beginning.  A man receives the Spirit by the hearing of faith it is not by the works of the law or by being made perfect by the flesh.  We become victorious exclusively by our faith in Jesus Christ.  It is not the tree of the knowledge of good and evil we want to partake of; it is the tree of life He calls us to.

1 John 5:4  For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world; our faith.  5  Who is he who overcomes the world, but he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?

Our victory is found exclusively in the object of our faith ever being in Jesus Christ and Him crucified.  It not victory through faith for more stuff; it is victory by the faith we have in Jesus Christ.  He who believes that Jesus is the Son of God is the one who overcomes the world.  Jesus is the substance and the object of our faith.

Colossians 1:16  For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him.  17  And He is before all things, and in Him all things consist.  18  And He is the head of the body, the church, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in all things He may have the preeminence.

Jesus has been given preeminence.  Preeminence is better then first place.  If someone or something has preeminence it is the center of all activity.  What you think of Jesus will determine the level of victory you walk in from day to day.  Jesus the creator of heaven and earth has invested in you and if the object of your faith is centered in Him you have assurance of victory. 

Colossians 1:19  For it pleased the Father that in Him all the fullness should dwell,  20  and by Him to reconcile all things to Himself, by Him, whether things on earth or things in heaven, having made peace through the blood of His cross.  21  And you, who once were alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works,yet now He has reconciled  22  in the body of His flesh through death, to present you holy, and blameless, and above reproach in His sight;  23  if indeed you continue in the faith, grounded and steadfast, and are not moved away from the hope of the gospel which you heard, which was preached to every creature under heaven, of which I, Paul, became a minister.

The Father has reconciled all things to Himself, having made peace through the blood of Jesus Christ on the cross.  You have been promised by the authority of the word of God to be presented to God holy, and blameless and above reproach.  WOW!  What a promise!  The promise can not be taken away as long as the object of your faith continues in the crucified one.  Don’t trust in the false religious practices; trust in the One who loved you and gave Himself for your deliverance.

Ephesians 2:13  But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ.  14  For He Himself is our peace, who has made both one, and has broken down the middle wall of separation, 15  having abolished in His flesh the enmity, that is, the law of commandments contained in ordinances, so as to create in Himself one new man from the two, thus making peace,  16  and that He might reconcile them both to God in one body through the cross, thereby putting to death the enmity.  17  And He came and preached peace to you who were afar off and to those who were near.

Jesus has abolished the enmity (hostility)!  Jesus put to death the hostility that is the law of commandments contained in ordinances.  Peace is exclusively in Jesus and the enmity is put to death.  Hostility is gone and the peace of God brought by the blood of the lamb.  What you think of Jesus Christ determine the level of your victory.  Trust exclusively in Him!