Colossians 2:15. "And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly. triumphing over them in it."
DISARMED. The charges were laid legitimately, and each one had a right To demand full restitution in order that each would shine so bright. Death was there insisting that it too had claims to be met. The One with the keys of life and death, death wanted from His hand to wrest.
But I could not meet them myself, they were far greater than I could pay. So, the Lord Jesus Himself stepped down from heaven to take all those sins away. He suffered for sin, the just for the unjust that He might bring us to God. When He declared His work was finished, sin could not say a word.
He didn't do it secretly; the event was open so everyone could see The way He would disarm in a public way every opposing enemy. The array of those opposed, all gathered to each stake their personal claim - So the Lord dealt with each one in its entirety by the authority of His name.
Sin demanded not just a pound of flesh, it demanded that the sinner must die. Lifted up on Calvary's cross, my iniquities on Christ God did lay. But instead of death overtaking Him, He deliberately laid down His life on His own. And by His authority, every principality and power, at the cross, the Lord Jesus disarmed.
"What glory and honor belong to our Lord, Father, for the great triumphs of the cross-work. All opposition was conquered legally for Thy sake; publicly for the peoples' sake and personally for my sake. I thank Thee, in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, Amen."