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Give No Place
00:03:44
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| If he has no place, he can be easily defeated. | |
| But it is hard to cast out what people are letting in. | |
| It's hard to cast out what people are letting in. | |
| Yes. | |
| And this is why it's so difficult to deal with him because he deceives people to let him in. | |
| Which makes it difficult to drive him out because the Bible declares he needs place. | |
| That's right. | |
| Ephesians 4, 26, 27, verse number 27 says, give no place to the devil. | |
| Now, if the Bible is saying don't give him place, it means, number one, he has no place. | |
| Right. | |
| And then it means, though, number two, he can get place if he's given place. | |
| That word, topos, is the Greek word for place. | |
| It means two things. | |
| Give the devil no opportunity. | |
| And it also means give the devil no access to territory that has been previously marked off. | |
| Our lives have been marked off from us. | |
| Amen. | |
| Amen. | |
| So our assignment is not to defeat him. | |
| He's already been defeated. | |
| Our assignment is not to give him place. | |
| Because if we don't give him place to operate in our lives, then all we have to do is exercise our authority in Jesus' name. | |
| And the Bible says, if you resist him, he will flee from you. | |
| So the key is, James 4, 7, submit to God, resist the devil, and he will flee. | |
| Why? | |
| Because as long as you stay up under the authority of Christ, he has to run from you because he's running from who you're under. | |
| He's running from the authority of Jesus. | |
| And so what he tries to do is circumvent ways to where he can escape God's authority, and that's by using people. | |
| And so I make the statement that Satan hides from the authority of Christ behind human wills. | |
| Boy, that's good. | |
| Meaning if someone allows him in, follows his instructions, sets their will against God, that's how Satan hides from protection. | |
| Because I can't drive him out if you want him in. | |
| And that's what he's done in America. | |
| He has so deceived certain segments of this nation where they are welcoming him in. | |
| That's right. | |
| And where he now has place to be, he's hard to displace. | |
| Yes. | |
| And it's getting harder. | |
| And it is getting harder. | |
| And that's the battle we're in because we're in, if you don't mind, can I share one thing? | |
| This is Matthew 12 is where the real spirit of this book comes from because Matthew 12 talks about when an unclean spirit has gone out of a man and walketh through dry places seeking rest and findeth none. | |
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Last State Worse
00:00:35
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| It says, I will return back to the house from where I came out of. | |
| When he comes, he finds the house empty, swept, and put in order, but it's not occupied. | |
| Then he goeth, taketh seven other spirits, more wicked than himself. | |
| They enter in and the last state is worse than the first. | |
| And then this is where it got me. | |