Friday, January 9

Satan utterly overthrown

Satan and his defeated legions, and the lost spirits of ungodly men, shall bite their lips with envy and rage, and tremble at the majesty of Jesus in that day. By their confessed defeat and manifest despair they shall glorify him in his people, in whom they have been utterly overthrown.

They shall see that there is not one lost whom he redeemed by blood, not one snatched away of all the sheep his Father gave him, not one warrior enlisted beneath his banner fallen in the day of battle, but all more than conquerors through him that loved them.

What despair shall seize upon diabolic spirits as they discover their entire defeat! Defeated in men who were once their slaves! Poor dupes whom they could so easily beguile by their craftiness, defeated even in these!

Jesus triumphant by taking the lambs from between the lion’s jaws, and rescuing his feeble sheep from their power, will utterly put them to shame in his redeemed.

With what anguish will they sink into the hell prepared for them, because now they hear with anger all earth and heaven and every star ringing with the shout, ‘Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, for the Lord God omnipotent reigneth, and the Lamb hath conquered by his blood.’

— Charles Spurgeon
"Jesus Admired in Them That Believe"