I asked you to meditate on Romans 16:20 (a) last night, which says “The God of peace will crush Satan under his feet.”<\/p>\n
It turns out in my sleepless stupor, I made a typo. \u00a0The Bible says that “The God of peace will crush Satan under YOUR<\/em><\/strong> feet.”<\/p>\n I think I conflated two verses actually, bringing together the verse in Genesis that talks about the Man bruising the Serpents head, while the Serpent strikes at his heel. \u00a0That verse in Genesis 3 even has a fancy name! \u00a0The\u00a0“protoevangelium<\/a>” is the first verse to foreshadow the coming of Christ. \u00a0Even in the very beginning, God has a plan for restoration of his people.<\/p>\n So what does it mean practically when we read these two verses?<\/p>\n Well…Paul addresses the brotherhood of Christ at the top of the paragraph, so we know that Satan will be crushed, by the God of peace (Jesus), under the feet of His people. \u00a0 In some sense, God has already done this through the work of the cross. \u00a0In another sense, Satan is still making an impact on the world today, and there is plenty of his work to crush.<\/p>\n So I think this verse is a call to arms! \u00a0A call for us to be ready to march when God asks, so that we may crush the true enemy under our feet. \u00a0 We march, Satan is crushed. \u00a0 It all seems so simple.<\/p>\n Simple, that is, until you try to relate it to the world we are living in today. \u00a0What does it mean to march together as Christians? \u00a0What would that even look like? \u00a0Should followers of Christ take up arms to free people from the bondage Satan has placed them in? \u00a0 If we focus on a global conflict such as Syria, is Jesus asking the Church to eliminate the “bad guys” on Jesus behalf? \u00a0Are we to stand up against the works of Satan in this world, using everything we have at our disposal, including violence?<\/p>\n It seems like we are back to where we started.<\/p>\n Lets look at two more passages.<\/p>\n