The Bond of Love
Google Images It was a hollow victory. To tell the truth, it wasn’t a victory at all. If Satan thought he had won when he turned Judas into a traitor and paved the road to Calvary, he was mistaken. Just as Jesus and the disciples left the upper room to take the short walk to the Garden of Gethsemane, Jesus said this: “ I will not speak with you much longer, for the prince of this world is coming. He has no hold on me, but the world must learn that I love the Father and that I do exactly what my Father commanded me ” (John 14:30, 31). Six words of tremendous importance: “ He has no hold on me. ” This road had been paved since before the beginning of time. It had been determined between a loving Father and an obedient Son in order to rescue a rebellious people. Satan was no more than a pawn on the chessboard of history. He only had the power to manipulate events that had been granted to him by God. Whatever “hold” he thought he had was no hold at all. The power of the underworld is a...