(Col. 1: 12, 13). “By reading these verses, we become vastly aware that it was Jesus Christ who delivered us from the power of darkness.  That carries with it a reigning ability which supersedes anything prior to the coming of that power.  The bondage of iniquity rent asunder, obliterated, destroyed; the reign of grace leading the recipient of mercy into the position of devotion and light.  Such was the purpose of the coming of the Son of God.”  (Author not mentioned)