The Work Of God’S Enemy
THE WORK OF GOD'S ENEMY
In the book of Romans we cannot find that God has any other enemies in addition to Satan, sin, and death. Romans 16:20 says, "Now the God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet." After speaking of Satan being crushed under our feet by the God of peace, Paul immediately says in the very same verse, "The grace of our Lord Jesus be with you." When Satan is crushed, grace is with us.
In a sense, God's enemy, Satan, is prevailing today as sin and as evil to bring people into death and to keep them there. This is the evil work of God's enemy. Satan is not content merely to pro voke us in such matters as losing our temper. His intention is to bring us into death. But God is working as life to defeat sin, death, and Satan. The result of God defeating these three enemies is that we reign in life.
VICTORY AND REIGNING
In chapter five of Romans we have an in troduction to the matter of reigning in life. As verse 17 points out, we who receive an abundance of grace shall reign in life. Chapters six through sixteen define for us the meaning of reigning in