The Militant Conquest Of Grace

That as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord. - Romans 5:21

    The power of sin and deception is incomprehensible. The heart of man by virtue of his fallen nature is deceitful and desperately wicked beyond human understanding. God alone knows the depth and darkness of the abyss into which the soul of man plummeted when he sinned against the holiness and justice of God and in which he remains until this day and shall forever remain.

“Dark the stain that soiled man’s nature,
long the distance that he fell.”

    The end of sin is death. It is not annihilation, but rather perpetual death and eternal separation from God. Left untouched by omnipotent grace there is no hope of recovery whatsoever. However, thanks be unto God, there is one (only one) Hope for the hopeless! One cure! One remedy! There is one person and one work that sin is powerless against—The sovereign grace of God in Christ Jesus our Lord. Where sin abounded, grace did much more abound (Rom 5:20). The Lord Jesus Christ conquered death by his death for all of his covenant loved ones.

    The grace of God like a mighty army conquered every enemy and foe. Every sin and transgression of those he loves was destroyed with precise accuracy and irresistible force. The death of Christ appears to be weakness to some, but the redeemed of the Lord, by faith, views his vicarious death as it really is—the victorious conquest of our Redeemer over sin and death for us. What he did is timeless.

    The effect of his death is and shall be a wonder and admired in him and his elect throughout time and eternity. The Lord Jesus Christ is our Mighty Saviour—Who is This that cometh from Edom, with dyed garments from Bozrah? This that is glorious in his apparel, traveling in the greatness of his strength? I that speak in righteousness, mighty to save (Is 63:1).