Christ Triumphant

Spurgeon takes Colossians 2:15 as an invitation to view the cross not through the eyes of worldly shame but through the eyes of faith — and describes the cross as Christ's actual battlefield, where he fought Satan, sin, and death in a cosmic war that reached its crisis at Calvary, disarmed every enemy by taking their weapons, stripped them of their armor and their crowns, and then divided the spoil as a conqueror does when the battle is fully and finally won. He then unfolds the triumphal procession that flows from this victory, using the image of a Roman triumph to picture the ascended Christ riding through the gates of heaven in his chariot, with the redeemed streaming behind him from Abel through the martyrs and reformers to the present day, while Satan bound, sin gagged, and death disarmed are dragged as captive prisoners at his wheels to the universal shout of "Worthy is the Lamb." He closes by turning the grand vision into a personal question: will you march in that procession? — and answers it simply: if you believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and have committed your soul to his keeping, your eyes will see that day of glory, and you will share the throne of him who has already triumphed.Sermon delivered by Charles Spurgeon on September 4th, 1859.