Christ is Universal Monarch

But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. – 1 Corinthians 15:57

Sin has been more than a match for creatures of every kind. Sin fought the angels and a third part of the stars of heaven fell. Sin defied the perfect Adam and soon overcame him, for even at the first blow he fell. Sin had a stern contest with Jesus our Lord, but in Him it found its master. Sin came with all its temptations, but Christ resisted and overcame. It came with its horror and with its curse; Christ suffered, Christ endured, and so destroyed its power. He took the poisoned darts of the curse into His own heart, and there quenched its poison fires by shedding his own blood. By suffering, Christ has become master over sin. The dragon’s neck is now beneath His feet. There is not a temptation which He has not known and therefore not a sin which He has not overcome. He has cast down every shape and form of evil, and now for ever stands as more than a conqueror through His glorious sufferings…He died, and in that dreadful hour He overcame death, rifled the sepulcher, split the stone which guarded the mouth of the grave, hewed death in pieces and destroyed the arch-destroyer. Christ seized the iron limbs of Death and ground them to powder in His hand. Death swayed its scepter over all the bodies of men, but Christ has opened the gate of resurrection for His redeemed, and in that day when He shall put the trumpet to His lips and blow the resurrection blast, then shall it be seen how Christ is universal monarch over all the domains of death, for as the Lord our Saviour rose, so all His followers must… Oh, my brethren, how bright that crown which He deserves, who hath for ever put away our sin by the sacrifice of Himself. My soul enraptured restrains my voice, and once again I bow before His throne and worship, in spirit, my bleeding Ransomer, my suffering Saviour.~ C.H. Spurgeon

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