History is not just a sequence of events, or even a series of repeated cycles, but its meaning lies in the salvation God achieves-and is achieving-by His unbounded grace. The power of the Cross to defeat the enemies of Man-Satan, the world powers and the world- system under Satan, sin, the law, the flesh, death, the wrath of God and the conscience-all these can be shown to have been defeated by the work of the Cross. What me must keep in mind is that unless the Cross and Resurrection effect total liberation of the human spirit there can be no talk of grace.