“Then the end will come, when He hands over the kingdom to God the Father after He has destroyed all dominion, authority, and power.” – 1 Cor. 15:24

A story is told of a group of heavily armed soldiers who were instructed to guard a strategic installation.

One night, the place was attached by robbers armed with sticks and machetes.

The terrified soldiers made an emergency call to the headquarters to come to their rescue.

The following morning, it was discovered that not even a single shot was fired during the attack in which several guns were stolen.

The entire group was arrested and charged with cowardice among other offences.

In the last two meditations, we covered the ‘dominion’ and ‘authority’ and how the resurrection of Christ completely dismantled them.

‘Power’ (dynamis) is the raw force that backs that authority up, using different weapons, armaments and munitions.

Together, these three forces describe a layered structure of spiritual government – one that had, since humanity’s fall, operated in open rebellion against the purposes of God in the Universe.

Then came the Cross.

Colossians 2:15 does not merely say Christ defeated these powers.

It says He disarmed them – stripped them of their weapons – and made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them openly.

This was not a quiet transaction.

This was a coronation, a conquest, a courtroom reversal.

The very instrument that looked like defeat became the throne from which Christ shattered every realm of authority.

And when He rose on the third day, He rose as Lord over every throne, every rank, and every name that is named.

The resurrection is not a footnote to the gospel. It is the headline!

But here is where many believers grow strangely passive.

They accept the victory as historical fact and then stand at the sidelines waiting for God to enforce what Christ has already won.

This is a misreading of the mandate.

When the Risen Christ stood before His disciples and declared, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me – go ye  therefore…” (Matthew 28:18–19), the commission flowed directly from the conquest.

Not despite His authority, but because of it. He was not asking the disciples to figure things out on their own.

Now, Church, stop being cowards; go out there and act like you have the power.

He was deputising them. He was saying: I hold the title deed to every realm — now go and act accordingly.

Luke 10:19 makes this breathtaking: “I have given you authority to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy.”

Delegated. Transferred. Legally binding.

And 1 John 4:4 settles any remaining anxiety: “Greater is He who is in you than he who is in the world.”

The indwelling Spirit is not a comfort token; He is omnipotent God, resident within the believer.

The Church, then, is not waiting for a victory. The Church is enforcing one.

We are the Body, and Christ is the Head.

The Head does not reach down to move what the hands were commissioned to move.

When the believer speaks in the Name of Jesus, resists the enemy, proclaims the Kingdom, and pushes back darkness, Christ is working through His body.

Mark 16:20 captures the divine rhythm perfectly: “They went out and preached everywhere, and the Lord worked with them.”

They moved first. Heaven backed them up.

This is the co-labouring principle. Not passivity sitting by and waiting for God to act.

Not activity divorced from dependence.

It is Spirit-empowered, faith-activated, authority-conscious partnership with the Risen Lord.

Every dominion Christ destroyed, every authority He disarmed, every power He shamed at the cross – He did it not merely to secure His own reign, but to restore yours.

Now, Church, stop being cowards; go out there and act like you have the power.