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