SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 10/6/2019 9:20 PM
My Worship Time Focus: PT-4 “The
Battle: Against Demons”
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Ephesians
6:12
Message of the verse: “12 For our
struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the
powers, against the world forces of this darkness, against the spiritual forces
of wickedness in the heavenly places.”
We have been talking about the
respect that we are to have when it comes to Satan, and his demons, and by that
I mean that we are to realize that they are very powerful. I want to quote from the book of Acts to make
a point about this: “13 But also some of the Jewish exorcists, who went from
place to place, attempted to name over those who had the evil spirits the name
of the Lord Jesus, saying, "I adjure you by Jesus whom Paul
preaches." 14 Seven sons of one Sceva, a Jewish chief priest, were doing
this. 15 And the evil spirit answered and said to them, "I recognize
Jesus, and I know about Paul, but who are you?" 16 And the man, in whom
was the evil spirit, leaped on them and subdued all of them and overpowered
them, so that they fled out of that house naked and wounded” (Acts
19:13-16).
John
MacArthur writes “A guard who sees the enemy approaching does not run out and
start fighting. He reposts the attack to
his commanding officer, who then organizes the defense. When Satan attacks, it is foolish to try to
do battle with him alone. Like the
soldier on guard duty, we should simply report to the Commander and leave the
defense in His hands. As the Lord
assured King Jehoshaphat as his army faced the greatly superior forces of Moab
and Ammon, ‘Do not fear or be dismayed because of this great multitude, for the
battle is not yours but God’s (2 Chron. 10:15).
My
friend John Weldon, who has devoted many years of his life to the study of
cults and false religions, warns believers:
‘God did not make us in such
a way that we can function either safely or effectively in a demon
environment. Even if it is neutral,
which it clearly is not, who knows what demons can do in their own environment
and what interrelationships exist or can be manufactured between their world and
ours? We were not made to fly around in
astral realms. Granted the existence of
the demonic, one is playing in an astral pigpen filled with evil and
hostility. We were not made with the
intellectual capacities to separate the good from the evil, the true from the
false, in the occult realm. For example,
the prophet Daniel was a brilliant and godly young man however, even he had to
be given additional wisdom from God in a special way to be able to have
discernment in occult matters. Thus
involvement in such things will always produce faulty conclusions, because man
as a fallen creature does not have the necessary equipment or ability to sort
out demonic matters.’”
We
as believers who know the Bible can understand that Satan and his invisible
demons are continually at work in the world and all around us. However we don’t know how many demons there
are and we do not have the wisdom to discern exactly when they are present, or
what kind they are, as we have stated that there are different categories of
demons, or different ranks. God has given
us the Spiritual Armor to be put on and we have mentioned that this is a once
and for all thing we can do, but it is good to remind ourselves of the uses of
each piece of the armor as we put it on in the morning. Remember that all but the Word of God is to
be used in defense and then the Sword of the Spirit is the offensive weapon
that is what is used to attack in a similar way that our Lord used it in
Matthew chapter four. 1 John 4:4 is
another good verse to remember “Greater is He who is in us than he who is in
the world.”
We
have a number of verses to quote from “Love in Action” in today’s SD.
Jesus put forth His hand
and touched the leper saying,
“I will.
Be thou clean.” And immediately
the leprosy was removed (Luke 5:13). So He
touched her hand, and the fever left
her. And she
arose and served them (Matthew 8:15). So
Jesus had
compassion and touché their eyes. And immediately their
eyes received sight, and they followed
Him (Matthew 20:34).
He took him aside from the multitude,
and put His
fingers in his ears, and He spat and
touched
his tongue….Immediately his ears were
opened, and the impediment of his
tongue was loosed Mark 7:33, 35).
And He touched his ear and
healed him (Luke 22:51).
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