Conclusion,,

Through sin, we had sold ourselves into slavery to evil. By dying in our place, Christ paid the price required to transfer our ownership from Satan to God. By so doing he utterly stripped our spiritual enemies of power over us. While we remain love slaves to Christ, evil spiritual powers cannot touch us.

They have nothing left but their evil cunning with which to try to lure us away from Christ into their fangs. And Christ has provided the way whereby even their attempts to con us cannot touch us.

If we learnt to fly a plane the way most of us approach our relationship with God, we would focus on what we suppose to be the fun parts, give little attention to how to land, and ignore safety requirements. Then we would wonder why there are so many fatalities.

If we look at the full revelation of God we see that victorious Christians are the one who are in total submission to God. They are those who, to use some of the Bible’s many different expressions, have denied themselves, died to self, died with Christ, or crucified the flesh, and are slaves of Christ.

The demon-crushing, temptation-beating power of Christ flows through the veins of those who, like Christ, submit to God no matter what the cost. Their eyes are so fixed on the eternal, that pleasure or the avoidance of pain and suffering mean nothing to them relative to the matchless joy of obeying God.

This is the resolve that makes them invincible. They can’t be bought and they can’t be tricked by appeals to the ego. They can’t be threatened and can’t be bribed or seduced. Against these Christians, evil spiritual powers are left weaponless.

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