Tuesday | 16 June 2026
The Law, which was against us, was taken out of the way when it was nailed to the cross through the sufferings that Christ endured at the hands of wicked men. Col 2:14. Act 2:23. Death is no longer the consequence of the Law. Rather, death is now the consequence of Christ’s judgement, because He possesses ‘the keys of hell and of death’. Rev 1:18. He obtained these keys when the fire of hell was lit by Christ on His offering journey, which culminated when He was lifted up on the cross at Calvary and great darkness covered the earth from the sixth to the ninth hour. This was the place where the justice and judgement of God were fully manifest and revealed.
During those three hours, Jesus suffered the judgement of everlasting burnings that belong to those who are forgotten by God, until the judgement and punishment of each of us were completed in Him. Heb 9:14. That is, He, through Eternal Spirit, endured an eternity of judgement and wrath – an ageless age of years, countless and interminable – which will never cease for those who refuse to repent and to receive the salvation of God. And yet, death could not hold Him. Act 2:24. He returned to the Father having learned and fulfilled the obedience that belongs to every person. These two dimensions of His one offering were typified by the two goats – the scapegoat and the Lord’s goat – that were offered on the Day of Atonement under the Old Covenant.
The apostle Paul proclaimed the gospel of ‘Jesus Christ and Him crucified’ as a word of present truth in every place. 1Co 2:2. When Paul first came to Corinth, he ‘reasoned in the synagogue’ every sabbath and persuaded ‘both Jews and Greeks’. Act 18:1‑4. When Silas and Timothy arrived from Macedonia, Paul was ‘compelled by the Spirit’ to testify to the Jews that Jesus is the Christ. Act 18:5. This was a word of present truth that Paul had been specifically directed to deliver to them.
Further Study:
Colossians 2
References:
Col 2:14
Having wiped out the handwriting of requirements that was against us, which was contrary to us. And He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross.
Act 2:23
Him, being delivered by the determined purpose and foreknowledge of God, you have taken by lawless hands, have crucified, and put to death.
Rev 1:18
I am He who lives, and was dead, and behold, I am alive forevermore. Amen. And I have the keys of Hades and of Death.
Heb 9:14
How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the Eternal Spirit offered Himself without spot to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
Act 2:24
Whom God raised up, having loosed the pains of death, because it was not possible that He should be held by it.
1Co 2:2
For I determined not to know anything among you except Jesus Christ and Him crucified.
Act 18:1-5
After these things, Paul departed from Athens and went to Corinth. And he found a certain Jew named Aquila, born in Pontus, who had recently come from Italy with his wife Priscilla (because Claudius had commanded all the Jews to depart from Rome); and he came to them. So, because he was of the same trade, he stayed with them and worked; for by occupation, they were tentmakers. And he reasoned in the synagogue every Sabbath, and persuaded both Jews and Greeks. When Silas and Timothy had come from Macedonia, Paul was compelled by the Spirit, and testified to the Jews that Jesus is the Christ.