Many Christians are perplexed by the words “He [Jesus] Led Captivity Captive” in the verses below, but as we will see it is only religion’s manmade traditions that have caused the confusion.

“Therefore If Any Man Be In Christ, He Is A NEW CREATURE (CREATION): Old Things Are Passed Away; Behold, All Things Are Become New.” (2 Cor. 5:17)

In the case of my own salvation, in November of 1968 I visited a church in New Jersey. My intention was to protect my wife and keep her from becoming involved with what my family used to refer to as "religious holy rollers.”

Having been immersed into His death … and risen with Christ (Rom. 6:3-4), we like Paul can say;

“I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me” (Galatians 2:20 KJV).

As we’ve already studied in Part 1 of this Study Series, mankind in Adam first became enlivened when God breathed the “breath (spirit) of life” into his clay form and Adam “became a living soul” in a living body (Genesis 2:7). That one “breath of life” was the impartation of the life-giving “Spirit of God.” But as we know man soon fell to the Devil’s wiles and from then to today all men are born “dead in trespasses and sins” (Eph. 2:1).