Back to the Bible Canada with Dr. John Neufeld - The Mysteries of the Cross: The Victory over Satan
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Back to the Bible Canada with Dr. John Neufeld - The Mysteries of the Cross: The Victory over Satan

B2Upper-intermediateOctober 8, 202624 min
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How could a humiliating death on a Roman cross be history’s greatest victory? Working through Colossians 2:13–15, Dr. John Neufeld traces Satan’s defeat from the promise of Genesis 3:15 to the Cross, where God cancelled our record of debt, disarmed the powers of darkness, and broke Satan’s authority to hold his captives. His only remaining weapon is the lie. The Mysteries of the Cross: Why did Jesus have to die, and what really happened on the Cross? “The Mysteries of the Cross” is a five-message series where Dr. John Neufeld teaches from Scripture on the important and contenti...

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Hi, this is Ben Lola, back of the Bible Canada. Welcome back to the continuation of our current series, The Mysteries of the Cross with Dr. John Neufeld. Today we'll be looking at Jesus' victory over Satan.

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So let's begin as we turn in our text to Colossians chapter 2 verses 13 to 15. is replete with stunning victories and defeats. But not all things are as they seem. What may appear to be a defeat can be a victory. For instance, in August or September of 480 BC at the narrow coastal pass of Thermopylae, the Greeks were completely wiped out by the

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invading Persian army. A much smaller group of Spartan fighters were surrounded front and back. Every man among them refused to surrender and was killed by the much larger Persian force. But that really is not the story. That small Greek force held the mighty and massive Persian army to a standstill for seven days. The net result of that heroic

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