The battles are raging, but the news from the front is that the war is over. As the twentieth-century French Lutheran theologian Oscar Cullman once put it, “We live between God’s D-Day and God’s V-Day.” Easter is God’s D-Day, the definitive defeat of the enemies of the human race: the world, the flesh, and the devil. And yet the enemies still have plenty of will and power to wreak havoc on us.