5/30/2023 0 Comments The galatian book of demons![]() ![]() ![]() If it isn’t biblical, it doesn’t need to be used. He agrees as well and he has way more experience than I do. I was even speaking yesterday to the pastor who helped my wife and ultimately was used by God to get me into helping people with demonic issues. I try to keep my “methodology” for lack of better term in dealing with demons strictly to a biblical model as opposed to using my experience which inevitably would turn into a mantra or some type of exorcism ritual. Many people also base too much of “how” to deal with the demonic based on their experiences with them. If you have not dealt with demons directly, be forewarned that they are LIARS. I said he listens to the demons and what they have to say. There are many people, Bob Larson is a great example of those that take this legalism to an extreme–and where does he get this information? He has a scribe that writes down what the demons say and extrapolates that into a basic rule book. I don’t like the term deliverance ministry, and I certainly don’t agree with a lot of it and this is one of those aspects. If we don’t follow the formula right by renouncing the right sins, then we don’t break the spells (“legal rights”) that demons have over us. I believe that demons are real and that they do affect people, but my impression is that many books on spiritual warfare and deliverance turn dealing with the demonic into magical formulas that we need to follow. I don’t recall Jesus ever saying anything like this. If demons have legal rights over all who have unconfessed sin, then the devil probably has legal rights over everyone.īut those who speak of Satan’s “legal rights” generally claim that we need to name and renounce the specific sins we have committed in order to remove Satan’s legal rights over us. Some liturgical traditions have their parishioners confess their sinfulness in every worship gathering, so perhaps they are safe from demons (tongue in cheek). ![]() Practically speaking, if the devil or demons have legal rights over all people (including Christians) who have unconfessed sin, then the devil probably has legal rights over every Christian because I’m pretty sure that most Christians have sinned in ways that they have forgotten to confess. 27, NRSV) to destroy the unity of the church community by means of more sinful behaviors. Rather, Ephesians 4 indicates that a person might “make room for the devil” (v. This passage says nothing about legal rights. The Bible never claims that demons have any “legal rights.” In contrast, Charles Kraft erroneously claims that demonic “rights are granted according to the rules God has set up to govern the universe.” He suggests, for example, that “one of the rules God has set up is that if a person holds on to anger or any other negative emotional reaction, a demon has the legal right to live inside that person.” He then wrongly claims, “This is spoken of in Ephesians 4:26-27, where we are told to not hold on to anger past sundown … lest we give the devil an opportunity-a legal right-to cause us trouble, presumably from inside of us.” But those who haven’t bathed themselves in such books wouldn’t come to this conclusion simply from reading the Bible because, well, it simply isn’t there. If you have read lots of books on spiritual warfare or deliverance, you might be convinced that Satan has legal rights. ![]() He has a legal right to occupy that territory. Satan still has a legal claim in that area…. For example, Derek Prince claims that if we (including Christians) have any unconfessed sin, then “in that area we do not have the full legal rights of redemption. Some people claim that the devil or demons have “legal rights” over people. ![]()
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