Behold the man. If Jesus did not, or could not, defeat the devil as a man then you or I cannot defeat the devil as mere men. But if He did defeat satan as a man then we, having His very Spirit - the same Spirit that raised Christ from the dead - are equipped to do the same.

As men united to God we can defeat all the powers of the enemy. We are over-comers, conquerors, victors. God always leads us in triumph in Christ Jesus. This is our inheritance. This is our birthright. This is our assignment - to destroy the works of the devil, to make plain the extreme mercy, the goodness, the astounding and matchless power of the Lord of lords, the brilliance of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

God decided to place this treasure inside His sons and daughters. The excellency of that power is of God and not of us. Yet who is honored by our down-playing this treasure? By withholding it through either unbelief or the false belief that God will act through us . . . but apart from us?

Besides the Lord Himself, who is denied by our timid constraint of such a treasure? Those of course whom we encounter on the normal path of living, whose inner pain and starving soul beg for a message from the God and Savior who claims to care.

Do we not contain this treasure for such as these? Are we not the message? Shall we this day begin afresh to give it away?