Another aspect they try to promote is that if you do fight them and win then you’ll have completed the mission and won’t have to contend with them ever again. This makes recently “delivered” Christians extremely troubled when evidence of demonic spirits arises again. They thought they were delivered and now the demons are back! No way!!! And this too leads to fear, a fear that gives them a place to hide and thrive.
So the propaganda is either make you afraid, very afraid, so you will try to limit interactions with demons altogether and to forget they’re even around whereby the demons may continue their work unmolested.
One such movie that promoted this narrative was, “The Exorcist”. The priests come to the home of a young possessed girl in an attempt to exorcise her demons, but instead the demons are able to manifest in horrific and grotesque ways, to toy with the priests, and finally are only extracted after one priest is killed and the other tells the demons to enter himself in lieu of remaining in the girl. Once the transference is accomplished, the priest then voluntarily hurls himself through a second story window that feeds down an additional height of a several story stair case, thus the priest dies a horrible death. Linda is delivered though and seemingly goes on to live a normal life afterward.
So the movie communicates that you don’t want to tangle with demons but if you do and win, you won’t have to do so again. Both are lies.
Granted, a movie like “The Exorcist” is part of the horror genre and is meant to scare you, and in so being it is an extremely effective tool of manipulation which serves the before stated purposes.
- It says, BE AFRAID and DO NOT tangle with demons. Even “trained” Catholic priests (who in truth serve Satan through their Babylon mystery religion so it’s no surprise they) can’t handle them.
- Demons are capable of anything and you can’t stop them.
- If you just get them out of your life once, you won’t have to deal with them in the future.
- After that you better just ignore them or a worse thing may come upon you.
I’ve seen many young Christians who believe the Words of Jesus when He said in Mark 16, “These signs shall follow them that believe, they shall cast out devils…” stuck with an ongoing false belief that if they can just get the demons of their soul realm (the mind, will and emotions) once and for all that the whole matter can be over and done with, and that if they just live an obedient life, the demons will never come back.
This is the propaganda of Satan though because our existence in this world, of which Jesus called Satan the prince of this world three times in the Book of John (12:31, 14:30, and 16:11), is by default shared with devils or demons. They are in the spirit world (and are also able to manifest in the natural, and will do so more and more when Satan and his demons are fully cast out of heaven, Rev 12:7-9), and are present in this system at all times, just as God’s Spirit and His holy angels are constantly around us as well.
Devils and demons are as much as part of the spiritual world around us as venomous snakes, scorpions and insects, wild lions, tigers and bears, and sharks, sting rays and jelly fish are in this earthly environment. Because of the fall in the garden where woman and man disobeyed God and partook of the forbidden fruit, the earth became a dangerous place, and so did the spiritual world around us.
One way of proving Satan’s presence is to see that Satan came to tempt Jesus after His forty day fast in the wilderness. Jesus told Satan to, “Get thee hence, Satan” (Matthew 4:10). “Then the devil leaveth him, and, behold, angels came and ministered unto him” (Matthew 4:11).
But this was not a permanent departure for we we know Satan came back to try to tempt Jesus again because when He was telling His disciples of His future crucifiction,
“Then Peter took him, and began to rebuke him, saying, Be it far from thee, Lord: this shall not be unto thee. But he turned, and said unto Peter, Get thee behind me, Satan: thou art an offence unto me: for thou savourest not the things that be of God, but those that be of men” (Matthew 16:22-23).
So we see Jesus dealing with Satan again through Peter who was too spiritually weak or lacking in discernment to realize that in that moment he was being a vessel for Satan.
If Jesus had to deal with Satan on multiple occasion in His walk on this earth, so must we. It’s really not that big of a deal. It just is what it is. We have to deal with demons in this current system. We won’t deal with them at all in the world to come, but now we must, and this is, again, why Jesus said the first sign that will follow them that believe is that they will cast out devils (Mark 16:15-18).
I Give Unto You Power…Over All The Power Of The Enemy
Demons know that we’ve been given all power over them, and this is why they work so hard to create a narrative where we fail to exact that power. Take this excerpt from Luke 10:
“And the seventy returned again with joy, saying, Lord, even the devils are subject unto us through thy name. And he said unto them, I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven. Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you” (Luke 10:17-19).
Jesus had told his disciples, those who keep His commandments, that they have been given all power over devils and that nothing the devils do can hurt them.
That’s a bold statement, but a Truth told to them to extract all fear from those who believe, follow and obey Him when casting out devils.
If any of us are afraid of demons at any time, that fear comes from the devils themselves. And this fear gives the devils a solid foothold.
You can see this phenomena with earthly bullies, they thrive on your fear of what they might do. But when you lean into them and stand up to them, showing them you’re not afraid, this is when their weakness and the chinks in their armor appear. It’s not until you stand up to them that your superior strength will be made manifest.
So we cannot allow the fear of the very existence of demons and the potential for their presence to bother us in the least. We must embrace the authority that Christ gives us whenever it is required and use it, acknowledging that there is no “once and for all” last battle with them while we’re alive, that we will have to face them again and again. No big deal. It is what it is.
This does not mean we have to fight them all day every day either. That’s another fear they try to place in us, that we will have to fight them continuously for the rest of our existences. Even fear of that proposition gives them a foothold. It’s once you realize that Jesus guarantees us the victory and that we will still be able to enjoy our walk with Him while also having unlimited power to defeat the demons that your confidence in Jesus’ Word increases dramatically, to a point that your trust in Him casts out the fear.
Perfect Love Casts Out Fear
As the Apostle John wrote, “There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love” (1 John 4:18).
A fear of demons can prevent your love with God being made perfect, because that means you are lacking the trust like that of a child in God that He requires. Yes, this system, due to our sin, is a giant crap hole. Yes there are some stinky, horrendous, horrible creatures lurking about the spiritual world, but Jesus has plucked you from the state of being subject to those powers, but given you authority over it all.
And so we must let go of any kind of fear with regard to demons. Fear of their existence. Fear that there are so many of them. Fear that they can inhabit the spirit realm near and about us. Fear that they may manifest in the natural at some point. Fear of how ugly and grotesque they are. Fear of them inhabiting us. Fear of them never leaving us alone. Fear of them gaining advantage.
Again, all we need is confidence in Jesus, in His name, in His shed blood, a perfect trust in God the Father and His Son Jesus Christ, that they have empowered each and every one of us to deal with these demons, to extract them from our lives, and to help others do the same.
It is the demons who should be, and rightfully so, afraid of us. Very afraid, not just of us but of the One who fights on our behalf, for we fight in His name, the name of Jesus.
You Must Keep The Commandments To Walk in Authority
A final caveat that cannot be left out, because it can form a basis for all fear in a Christians life, is the fear that naturally occurs when we are operating outside of and against God’s Word. When so many nominal Christand do as Paul said and ignore God’s law (and follow his). It’s natural to feel as Believers we are on shaky ground when we don’t keep God’s Word. Jesus said this about just such a situation:
“And why call ye me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say? Whosoever cometh to me, and heareth my sayings, and doeth them, I will shew you to whom he is like: He is like a man which built an house, and digged deep, and laid the foundation on a rock: and when the flood arose, the stream beat vehemently upon that house, and could not shake it: for it was founded upon a rock. But he that heareth, and doeth not, is like a man that without a foundation built an house upon the earth; against which the stream did beat vehemently, and immediately it fell; and the ruin of that house was great (Luke 6:46-47).
You will have built without a foundation on the sand if you do not adhere to God’s Word. Then you should be afraid, because you haven’t truly repented and made things right with God, so you are not truly part of His Kingdom. In order to be a part of God’s Kingdom you must be IN AGREEMENT with Him and His Kingdom. Being in sin, you have opened the door to Satan and his demons so you have good cause to be afraid.
It’s the getting out of sin and getting in line with God’s law that gives you the confidence in God’s Word to battle these demons and not fear them, even though they are in our environment.
John the apostle said it this way, “Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, then have we confidence toward God. And whatsoever we ask, we receive of him, because we keep his commandments, and do those things that are pleasing in his sight” (1 John 3:21-22).
So keep God’s commandments and walk in the confidence of the authority God has so graciously given you over all demons, including Satan himself. And above all, have no fear about, it’s just another day at the office for you. No reason to be scared, if you are that means a demon lurks anyway, might as well start off by casting out the demon of fear!
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