The work of Christ was finished in the cross, but that is not where it began. Christ began His work the moment He appeared as the little baby boy, born through Mary, in the town of Bethlehem. John Piper, writes, "So the first answer to how Christ destroys the work of the devil is that he appears: he comes to live and die and rise again, and somehow that destroys sin."
God said He was going to show up in a certain way at a certain time, and He did not fail to deliver. What's more is that God intended to show us how we ought to live from the moment of our birth to the moment that we die. Jesus' early childhood is not really mentioned in the Bible, but it does not diminish the fact that Christ went through all the stages of growing up in His culture.
It can be said that Christ was victorious in all things, even in His birth, because everything about His life gave glory to God. His birth pointed to God fulfilling prophecies, and therefore it brings glory to God. His life was about showing His people what really in God's heart and bringing them to repentance, and therefore He brought glory to God. Once again, He was victorious in death because He sought to glorify God.
If Christ was victorious in His birth, then, so can we be victorious in our new lives as followers of Christ. Just as Christ was, so are we victorious the moment we are born into His kingdom. Every new birth into God's kingdom destroys the works of the devil, and that is exactly what Christ commissioned us to do, before He departed in Matthew 28:19-20.
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