Overcoming Through Surrender E-Book

Elizabeth V. Baker

• Herausgeber: Full Well Ventures
• Kategorie: Religion und Spiritualität
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2020

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This article, "Overcoming Through Surrender of the Will," by Elizabeth V. Baker was originally published in the April 1912 issue of Trust magazine.

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Overcoming Through Surrender

© 2020 Full Well Ventures

Originally published in the April 1912 issue of “Trust” magazine

TRUST

Overcoming Through Surrender of the Will

By Elizabeth V. Baker

“And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses; Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross. And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a show of them openly, triumphing over them in it.”

— Colossians 2:13-15.

THESE “PRINCIPALITIES and powers” were Satan and all under him, and Jesus absolutely triumphed over them from the lowest demon on up to the highest personage that heads up the cause of darkness, Satan himself, and we find him making a show of them openly. His triumph was so complete that He openly showed them up to contempt, and we want to see how He overcame the powers of darkness because we have to overcome even as He overcame. Revelation 3:21.

We notice here it was by the cross, and in Hebrews 2:14 we read: —

“Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil.”

He triumphed over the devil through death, not only on the cross, but all through His life, and He did it daily by death. We want to see, in the first place that the divine nature was the cross upon which the human nature of Jesus ever died. He had a human will, an independent human will, which might have operated continually like ours, but He always laid it down in the divine will. Jesus was here to do the will of God, and He would absolutely do no other.