Man sold
himself out to the devil making himself a bond slave and that slavery will last
until the lease or period of man’s dominion expires.
God must in some
way redeem fallen man from his sin and Satan’s dominion.
He must do it
in such a way as not to be unjust to Satan nor unjust to man.
God must
recognise and hold inviolate man’s treacherous act of transference of dominion.
It was a
legal act and God has no right to arbitrarily annul it.
He must show Satan
perfect justice at all points, and at same time He must reach man in his
helplessness and redeem him.
In order to
do this, it is necessary that one comes to the earth who is not a subject of Satan
and yet a man, and as a man meet every demand for justice against man.
In order to
accomplish this, there must be an incarnation.
This
incarnate one must not be a subject of Satan, nor a subject of death, and to
this end, God sends the Holy Spirit to a virgin in Judah and she conceives and
bears a son.
This son is
born not of natural generation but of supernatural.
The child is
not a subject of death nor of Satan.
He has the
type of a body that the first man, Adam had before he sinned.
Every step of
the work that was accomplished by this incarnate one was based upon perfect
legal grounds.
This
incarnate one met the demands, first, of the heart of deity for perfect human
who would do his will; second, He met the demands of fallen man in that as a
man He met the devil and conquered him in honourable open combat
‘’Being tempted
in all points yet without sin’’
He goes on
the cross and lays upon Him the iniquity of the human race.
He then with
this burden upon Him and under judgement of God goes down into hell and suffers
the penalty demanded by justice.
When He had
paid this penalty, He rose from the dead.
He conquered Satan,
He broke his dominion and took away his authority and power.
Then with the
trophies of His triumph, He ascended to the right hand of the majesty on high
and laid the tokens of His victory at the feet of God the Father.
E. W. Kenyon
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