The death on the cross

1 Corinthians 1:18

“For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.” NIV

Still talking about the first imagery that the cross brings to us, remember Jesus said, “Except a corn of wheat falls into the ground and die, it abideth alone.”
When you go through the cross, you died firstly to satan.

Romans 7:1-6

“Do you not know, brothers — for I am speaking to men who know the law — that the law has authority over a man only as long as he lives? For example, by law a married woman is bound to her husband as long as he is alive, but if her husband dies, she is released from the law of marriage. So then, if she marries another man while her husband is still alive, she is called an adulteress. 

But if her husband dies, she is released from that law and is not an adulteress, even though she marries another man. So, my brothers, you also died to the law through the body of Christ, that you might belong to another, to him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit to God. 

For when we were controlled by the sinful nature, the sinful passions aroused by the law were at work in our bodies, so that we bore fruit for death. But now, by dying to what once bound us, we have been released from the law so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit, and not in the old way of the written code.” NIV

Without dying on the cross with Jesus, we could not be free from the legitimate hold the devil had on us through the first Adam. The death on the cross broke that hold just as death releases a spouse from the bonds of marriage to the dead spouse. You are now free to belong to Jesus. Satan, no longer has any hold on you whatsoever. The devil himself knows this and you should know this too. You know what this does, it makes a lie the of this copout, “the devil made me do it.” The devil cannot make you do anything you don’t want to do.