Luke 11:20-26
20 But if I with the finger of God cast out devils,
no doubt the kingdom of God is come upon you.
21 When a strong man armed keepeth his palace,
his goods are in peace: 22 But when a stronger
than he shall come upon him, and overcome him,
he taketh from him all his armour wherein he trusted,
and divideth his spoils. 23 He that is not with
me is against me: and he that gathereth not with
me scattereth. 24 When the unclean spirit is gone
out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking
rest; and finding none, he saith, I will return
unto my house whence I came out. 25 And when he
cometh, he findeth it swept and garnished. 26
Then goeth he, and taketh to him seven other spirits
more wicked than himself; and they enter in, and
dwell there: and the last state of that man is
worse than the first.
Who delivers - Matthew 12:28
But if I cast out devils by the Spirit of God,
then the kingdom of God is come unto you. Devils
are cast out by the spirit and not by power. When
you use the term strongman, it is a term that
is to indicate a control or rulership on authority
over us. For example, a strongman or burglar taking
control of a store and robbing it. A stronghold
has been made.
What is a stronghold?
vs. 21 - it is the control by the ruling principality
(evil spirit) over a person's life. God created
you with a sovereignty it doesn't man the rulership
of any principality over you. You have been created
to be spiritually free.
When these evil spirits come into your life then the rule over
your life and you submit to them and their authority. You submit
to their design and intent. You become under their authority and
control. The strongman armed would be an evil spirit, principality,
taking your house (your palace) over. It is controlling you. His
goods would be the armor that is in peace. For example: Bitterness
is ruling principality for the devil. When bitterness is armed
keepeth your palace his good (or underlings) are at peace (unforgiveness,
resentment, retaliation, anger/wrath, hatred, violence and murder
in action or with the tongue). These are now in peace under his
authority. That is not your peace that is the strongman's peace.
When the evil spirit is within you, he is at peace and you are
in torment. When he is gone, he is in torment and you are in peace.
Vs. 24-26 it means when the evil spirit is cast out, it goes
into torment, that dry place of the second heaven, invisible where
evil spirits are when they don't inhabit a human being is a dry
place. Why is it a place of torment for them, it's a place of
torment because they have all these feelings. They have all these
urges. They have all the manifestations of their nature roaring
through their consciousness. Evil spirits are disembodied beings.
They are as real as you or I except they don't have a physical
body and are bound to the spirit dimension of spirit. They are
not either in the earth visible nor are they in heaven spiritually.
Jesus said this, I saw Satan fall like lightening from heaven.
When the evil spirit is in you, it wants to manifest himself
by its nature. If it is bitterness, it wants to use you as a medium
of expression and when you allow it that becomes your sin. You
need to repent for allowing it to become part of your life. You
need to repent to God for allowing an evil spirit or principality
or spiritual wickedness in high places and not be controlled by
the Holy Spirit in your life otherwise you cannot be used as an
oracle for God. You become an oracle for the devil through his
kingdom. Example, has anyone ever rejected you and you lashed
out in anger at them? Then you just participated in their sin.
It was not love and you were not in the spirit but in the flesh
manifesting anger at the other person.
When you start spouting off in anger or wrath (because of bitterness/unforgiveness),
that is not even you. That is an evil spirit that has taken you
over, you go down, it comes up and it uses your faculties as a
medium of expression and it fulfills its nature. It is very much
happy to do so. You are very unhappy and you have become the victim
of an evil spirit in your heart. How do you get it out of your
life, through repentance and then casting it out of your life?
If you want to punish an evil spirit, cast it out so that it has
to go to dry places and manifest all of its personality then it
will be in torment. Not you!
That is why the bible says to resist the devil and he shall flee
and that we not to give no place to the devil. That's why the
bible says to keep ourselves pure from the works of evil. That
is why we are supposed to have discernment. It also says to put
things under our feet.
What does it mean to be pure spiritually? It means you are acting
out of according to the nature of God as he created you from the
beginning of the foundation of the world. That is spiritual purity.
What is spiritual impurity?
You are allowing the mentality and mind of the kingdom of Satan
to operate through you influencing you, speak through you, act
through you and do drastically deeds through you. That is spiritual
impurity. You can deal with your emotions all you want, but if
you don't deal with the spirit behind it, it will be a long life
struggle to overcome it with your inner man.
Jesus said in Mark 7:20-23 20And he said, That which cometh out
of the man, that defileth the man.
21 For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts,
adulteries, fornications, murders,
23 All these evil things come from within, and defile the man.
What is verses 20-23 saying? What is in the heart of man (your
heart is the human spirit), expresses itself out of a man in a
thought, a word or an action. That is in the spiritual dynamics
of a man that manifests and comes up and out through thought,
word or deed.
Now when someone stronger than the strongman shall come upon
him and overcome him and take away from him all his armor wherein
he trusted and divided his spoils.
What is spoils? It is a term of war. When you go in and overcome
an enemy, you get all of his goods. The spoils of bitterness,
has seven areas that are important to him (unforgiveness, resentment,
retaliation, anger/wrath, murder - they are the underlings to
bitterness) it his purpose for being. He's trusting that when
you deal with the root of bitterness he trusting with all of his
might sitting in your house that resentment is as far as you are
going to go. Then anger/wrath will want to pump it up and get
it back in its life. These are the things he is trusting in that
he can keep his position in ruler ship because he is sitting on
his throne in your castle (your house). It is trusting it can
control you with its armor and its armor is what other spirits
lesser than itself.
Luke 11 the strongman armed is the principality or evil spirit
that lives in your palace and his goods are in peace. What are
his goods? Means every bit of his kingdom (underlings or other
spirits) that he's banking on to control you is in place and operating
very well. If you are dealing with a root of bitterness, all 7
of these are working somewhere in you (unforgiveness, resentment,
retaliation, anger/wrath, murder). Murder can be murder of the
tongue or physical murder. All seven of these are the goods that
are in peace. For example, when the principality of the unloving
spirit there are good which are for example are self-hatred, self-pity,
self-rejection, self-idolatry, selfishness, self-accusation, etc.
When one of the goods or underlings is manifesting such as self-pity,
then the kingdom of self is being promoted and not the kingdom
of God. You are introspecting. Self-pity is a feeling of sorrow
(often self-indulgent) over your own sufferings in the past or
in the present. It is self exalting your problems.
How can you get past your past pain when in self-pity? You cannot
when you are manifesting self-pity. It is people who habitually
indulge in self-pity--it's "injustice collector." These
are the folks who are constantly dwelling on their hurts and hardships--whether
real or imagined--and they enjoy thinking about them and talking
about them. That is why it is the kingdom of self. A person in
self-pity is keeping a record of wrong. God's way instructs us
to walk in the God kind of love, which is "not self-seeking,"
and which "keeps no record of wrongs."
That is why it is very important to repent, pull down the thought
that is not of love or have it cast out otherwise, if it stays
and becomes habitual, then it is a stronghold. That person is
in habitual self-pity and cannot seem to get free.
So, when you act out in anger then you are in sin. When you feel
rejected it is a sin. When you are in fear it is a sin and sin
is a being. When you look at 2 Timothy 1:7 it says For God hath
not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and
of a sound mind. So, we see that fear is a spirit. A spirit that
is opposite of God are demons that influence us.
Any sin will lead to a stronghold (spiritual bondage) if not
dealt with. That is what Jesus did on the cross for us was give
us a way to deal with our sin. In the old testament, they had
to wait an entire year, do sacrifices on animals for blood to
cover sin. It was not forgotten like what Jesus did for us on
the cross when we repent and it is forgiven and forgotten.
Once a stronghold is established, the enemy influences us in
our attitudes and actions, and also distorts our perception of
God, other people and situations, causing us to misperceive situations
to the detriment of relationships.
Jesus gave us the authority
to cast down thought and strongholds.
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