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Acheivements of the cross

1. In relation to the devil the cross was a conquest

1 John 2:13 NLT

I am writing to you who are mature in the faith because you know Christ, who existed from the beginning. I am writing to you who are young in the faith because you have won your battle with the evil one.

Believer’s Bible Commentary (IV. Stages of Growth in the Fellowship (2:12–14))

Young men … overcome the wicked one because they have learned the secret of victory, namely, “Not I, but Christ living in me.” The little children are the babes in the faith.

Believer’s Bible Commentary B. Christ Superior to the Angels (1:4–2:18)

Satan is still actively opposing the purposes of God in the world, but he received a death wound at the cross. His time is short and his doom is sure. He is a defeated foe.

2. In relation to the World the Cross was a Reconciliation

Colossians 1:21–22 NLT

This includes you who were once far away from God. You were his enemies, separated from him by your evil thoughts and actions. Yet now he has reconciled you to himself through the death of Christ in his physical body. As a result, he has brought you into his own presence, and you are holy and blameless as you stand before him without a single fault.

Believer’s Bible Commentary Reconciliation

reconciliation in their case was already an accomplished fact. Before their conversion, the Colossians had been Gentile sinners, alienated from God and enemies of His in their minds because of their wicked works (Eph. 4:17, 18). They desperately needed to be reconciled, and the Lord Jesus Christ, in His matchless grace, had taken the initiative.

Believer’s Bible Commentary Reconciliation

He reconciled them in the body of His flesh through death. It was not by His life but by His death.

Believer’s Bible Commentary Reconciliation

the Lord Jesus effected reconciliation by dying on the cross in a real human body (not as a spirit being, which the Gnostics claimed Him to be). Compare Hebrews 2:14–16, where Christ’s Incarnation is declared a necessity in order to effect redemption. The Gnostic concept denied this.

Believer’s Bible Commentary Reconciliation

The wonderful result of this reconciliation is expressed in the words to present you holy, and blameless, and above reproach in His sight. What marvelous grace, that ungodly sinners can be delivered from their past evil life and conveyed into such a realm of blessing!

Believer’s Bible Commentary Reconciliation

The full efficacy of Christ’s reconciliation with regard to His people will be seen in a coming day when we are presented to God the Father without sin, stain, or any charge against us, and when, as worshipers, we shall gladly acknowledge Christ as the Worthy One (Rev. 5).

3. In relation to God the cross was an offering

Hebrews 2:18 NLT

Since he himself has gone through suffering and testing, he is able to help us when we are being tested.

Believer’s Bible Commentary B. Christ Superior to the Angels (1:4–2:18)

Because He Himself has suffered and has been tempted, He is able to aid those who are going through temptation. He can help others going through it because He has been there Himself.

Believer’s Bible Commentary B. Christ Superior to the Angels (1:4–2:18)

Here again we must add a word of qualification. The Lord Jesus was tempted from without, but never from within. The temptation in the wilderness shows Him being tempted from without. Satan appeared to Him and sought to appeal to Him by external stimuli. But the Savior could never be tempted to sin by lusts and passions within, for there was no sin in Him and nothing to respond to sin. He suffered, being tempted. Whereas it pains us to resist temptation, it pained Him to be tempted.

In relation to the Law the cross was a satisfaction

Colossians 2:14 NLT

He canceled the record of the charges against us and took it away by nailing it to the cross.

Believer’s Bible Commentary (E. Christ’s Sufficiency against the Perils of Philosophy, Legalism, Mysticism, and Asceticism (2:1–23))

In His death on the cross, He took all this out of the way, nailing it to the cross and canceling it as a bill is canceled when the debt is paid. “By the death of Christ on the cross, the law which condemned men lost its penal authority, inasmuch as Christ by His death endured for man the curse of the law and became the end of the law.” “The law is not dead, but we have died to it.”

In relation to the sinner the cross was a substitution

Romans 5:6 NLT

When we were utterly helpless, Christ came at just the right time and died for us sinners.

Believer’s Bible Commentary (F. The Practical Benefits of the Gospel (5:1–11))

The emphasis is what we are now (justified by Christ’s blood, reconciled by His death) and the resulting certainty of what the Savior will do for us (deliver us from wrath, preserve us by His life).First we are reminded that we were weak, helpless, without strength, and unable to save ourselves. But at the predetermined time the Lord Jesus Christ visited our planet and died for men. And He did not die for good men, as some might suppose, but for the ungodly. There was no virtue, no excellence in us to commend us to God. We were utterly unworthy, but Christ died for us anyway.

The cross is Gods Masterpiece of Spiritual Engineering

The cross is perfect in every respect

The cross is perfection in evry aspect