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Authority Over Demon Spirits, Not Human Wills 69
The policeman realized what had happened. Afterwards he
went to the Full Gospel pastor, shook his hand, and hugged him.
He said, "Bless God, I'm glad God arrested him. He ought to
have had more sense than that."
The next night the preacher apologized for talking about
something he didn't know much about. He said he felt as if God
had arrested him, and he added that it is better to leave things
alone when we don't know much about them.
Resist the Devil
Often we realize that certain trials in our lives are the work
of the enemy, and we cry out to God to rebuke him and alter
circumstances for us. However, God's Word tells us to rebuke
the enemy ourselves. In James 4:7 we are told, "Resist the devil,
and he will flee from you," The authority over the devil is ours.
The responsibility is ours.
If we'll resist the devil, he will flee from us. The Bible
doesn't say, "Get somebody else to resist the devil for you"; it
says we are to resist the devil. Too many of us sit idly by,
waiting for Jesus to do something when we are the ones who are
supposed to resist the devil. Why? Because we have the
authority to! (We always want somebody else to do what we're
supposed to do.)
Of course we're always going to have spiritual babies, and
we ought to carry them on our faith, but some of us ought to
grow up enough to be able to help look after the babies and not
leave it up to the pastor to do everything.
Conditions exist because we permit them to. Matthew 18:18
says, "Verily I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall bind on earth
shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever ye shall loose on
earth shall be loosed in heaven."
That was the King James Version. I like another translation I
once read which renders it, "Whatsoever things ye refuse to be