Now the context here is that we are being instructed to make certain that the gospel message that we are hearing and accepting is the full gospel message as taught by Jesus Christ and by his NT apostles, and that we are not being taken captive by any other gospel being promoted as the true...
“For Christ did not send me to baptize but to preach the gospel, and not with words of eloquent wisdom, lest the cross of Christ be emptied of its power. For the word of the cross is folly to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. For it is written,
“’I...
Having disarmed principalities and powers: Another aspect of Jesus’ work on the cross is that He disarmed principalities and powers. These ranks of hostile angelic beings (Romans 8:38, Ephesians 1:21, Ephesians 3:10, Ephesians 6:12) don’t have the same weapons to use against Christians that they...
“The old cross would have no truck with the world. For Adam's proud flesh it meant the end of the journey” (1) A. W. Tozer
Destroy Them Totally
Deuteronomy 7:1-6 NIV
When the Lord your God brings you into the land you are entering to possess and drives out before you many nations… and when the...
And having disarmed the powers and authorities, he made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them by the cross. - Colossians 2:15
A sad occourence in some circles is the diminishing of the cross of Jesus Christ. We see in many Churches the cross being taken down in sanctuaries, other...