You might be a bit anxious and afraid if you were called into battle.  It can sound very ominous to be called to war.  But what if you were being called into battle against an enemy with no weapons?  What if you were to be heavily armed while the enemy had nothing at all to fight with?

That is what we are told in Scripture regarding our spiritual enemy.  Jesus disarmed the enemy.  He took away the weapons they had at their disposal to attack us with.

But when this is not believed, it is like the enemy has water pistols they use to mimic real guns, and when they squirt them, they deeply wound someone because it is so deeply believed they are real weapons when they are no weapon at all.

Colossians 2:15 Having disarmed principalities and powers, He made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them in it.

What does it clearly say Jesus did here?  He disarmed the principalities and powers.  He took away their weapons.  They now have to try to convince someone they have a weapon against them through deception.

What were the weapons they were using before Jesus went to the cross?

Colossians 2:13 And you, being dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He has made alive together with Him, having forgiven you all trespasses, 14 having wiped out the handwriting of requirements that was against us, which was contrary to us. And He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross.

The weapon the enemy once had that was justly used against us at one point in time was the handwritten requirements of the law.

Jesus nailed the handwritten requirements to His cross.  The things written and spoken of here involve the law that was against us, proving us guilty and dead in our sins and trespasses. The enemy was allowed to use them against us while we were still sinners away from Christ and unprotected by His finished work at the cross.  But when we believed in Jesus, those requirements that were successfully used against us were taken away by the cross when they were nailed to it.

In other words, Jesus disarmed our accuser.

Romans 8:33 Who shall bring a charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies.  34 Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, and furthermore is also risen, who is even at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us.

When someone comes to Christ in faith and is born again, they get to live in the freedom and peace of knowing Jesus, their Savior, disarmed their enemy and set them totally free from everything that was held against them.

I encourage you to live in the freedom you have received in Christ and not let the enemy deceive you into believing he has any weapon to use against you.  Live in Christ always!  Live in the power and beauty of His completed work on your behalf!  Nothing can separate us from His love!