April 24
Satan’s Defeat and Your Legal
Rights (Part 1)
“Giving
thanks unto the Father, which has made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light: Who
hath delivered us from the power of
darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son. In whom
we have redemption through His blood,
even the forgiveness of sins.”
(Col. 1:12-14)
We are partakers of the inheritance of light.
This is because we are no longer under the authority of darkness. According to
Webster's dictionary an inheritance
is something that we come into possession of or receive as a right or divine portion.[1]
When Adam sinned against God he turned his God given dominion over to the devil
(Gen. 1:26). Satan gained legal rights over us. When Jesus died as our
substitute He destroyed all of Satan’s legal rights and delivered us from his
dominion.
Kenneth Wuest translates verse 13, “….who delivered us out of the tyrannical
rule of the darkness and transferred us into the kingdom of the Son of His
love.” We were under Satan’s tyranny but God rescued us and placed us into
the kingdom of the Son He loves so much. There is not one iota of selfishness
in God. He loved Jesus so very much yet He was willing to give Him to the world
to purchase our freedom from Satan’s tyrannical rule.
Paul says that those who are redeemed by the blood
of Jesus and delivered from the authority of darkness are translated into a
“kingdom”—the kingdom of God’s dear Son. Here we have two authorities—two kingdoms
that are opposed to each other. Jesus makes it clear that Satan has his own
kingdom.
God has a kingdom and Satan has also set up a
kingdom. Satan is a king who oppresses his subjects and keeps them in bondage.
The reason why God’s Kingdom, when it is proclaimed, becomes good news is that,
when one embraces it they are released from the bondage inflicted upon them by
Satan’s kingdom (Matt. 12:22-29). No wonder Satan makes every attempt to blind
men and keep them from receiving this good news (2 Cor. 4:3, 4). It is the good
news that is the destruction of his evil works over our lives. Now that truly
is “good news.”
[1]
Merriam Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary, Tenth Edition (Springfield, MA:
Merriam-Webster, Incorporated, 1997), p. 1008
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