Marking Time: Forming Spirituality through the Christian Year

Ses s i on 2: Chr i s tus Vi c tor

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Christ’s death for our sins – His payment of the penalty declared against us – was His legal victory whereby He erased Satan’s legal claim to the human race. But Christ also won dynamic victory. That is, when He was justified and made alive, adjudged and declared righteous in the Supreme Court of the universe, Satan, the arch foe of God and man, was completely disarmed and dethroned. Christ burst forth triumphantly from that age-old prison of the dead. Paul says that He “spoiled principalities and powers” and “made a show of them openly, triumphing over them in it” (Colossians 2.15).

~ Paul Billheimer, Destined for the Throne, p. 87.

4. “The Kingdom has come and the strong man is bound”: Matt. 12.28, 29.

a. The Kingdom of God “has come” – pleroo .

b. The meaning of the Greek verb: “To fulfill, to complete, to be fulfilled, as in prophecy”

c. The invasion, entrance, manifestation of God’s kingly power

5. Jesus as the binder of the strong man: Matt. 12.25-30 (ESV) – Knowing their thoughts, he said to them, “Every kingdom divided against itself is laid waste, and no city or house divided against itself will stand. [26] And if Satan casts out Satan, he is divided against himself. How then will his kingdom stand? [27] And if I cast out demons by Beelzebul, by whom do your sons cast them out? Therefore they will be your judges. [28] But if it is by the Spirit of God that I cast out demons, then the kingdom of God has come upon you. [29] Or how can someone enter a strong man’s house and plunder his goods, unless he first binds the strong man? Then indeed he may plunder his house. [30] Whoever is not with me is against me, and whoever does not gather with me scatters.”