Public Spectacle

When you were dead in your sins and in … your sinful nature, God made you alive with Christ. He forgave us all our sins, having canceled the written code, with its regulations, that was against us and that stood opposed to us; he took it away, nailing it to the cross. 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 1984).

My Musings – Those who opposed Him, intended to make a public spectacle of Him, cancelling His message for all time. Needless to say, as this text points out, it backfired. They, and the one who prompted them (Satan), played right into His hands and actually facilitated the ageless plan that foiled their plans. “Triumphing over them by the cross … disarmed the powers and authorities … having canceled the written code … that…