17 October 2024
Characteristics of Satan
He is an accuser
●Revelation 12 :10
for the accuser of our brethren, who accused them before our God day and night
●Job 1:9 Here, Satan goes before God and accuses Job of being faithful to God only because He has blessed him and built a wall around his possessions.
●Job 2:9 Then his wife said to him, “Do you still hold fast to your integrity?
Curse God and die!”
●Here, we notice that Satan uses Job’s wife to accuse God.
●Satan accuses a beliver against some wrongdoing against another beliver and hence turns one beliver against another
●Satan condems a beliver and makes him feel ashamed of himself accusing him of sinning against God ,hence making the beliver condem himself
●This self condemnation leads to guilt and burden.
●On the other hand, the Holy Spirit convicts you.
●This conviction by the Holy Spirit leads to cleansing, and this, in turn, leads you to peace.
DEMONS
●In Mathew 25:41
Then He will also say to those on the left hand, ‘Depart from Me, you cursed, into the everlasting fire prepared for the devil and his angels:
●This verse points to the dual kingdom concept .
●In Mathew Chapter 12
Speaks about Satan, his kingdom, and demons.
●Jesus calls them the devil and his angels .
●There are millions of demons
●One-third of God’s angels fell with lucifer and hence became Satan’s angels.
●So Satan also has numerous demons with him ,the demons belong to Satan ,and he is their ruler
●Demons are evil spirits without bodies, and since they are devoid of bodies, they must wander about seeking a body into which they can enter.
●They can also enter into the body of animals, although such instances are very rare.
●Hence, the demons make their abodes inside people who live in sin.
Demons can talk
●In Mark 3 :10,11
And the unclean spirits, whenever they saw Him, fell down before Him and cried out, saying, “You are the Son of God.”
●Here, we see that demons can talk .They speak using the tongue of the person in whom they reside.
●Luke 4:40,41
And demons also came out of many, crying out and saying, “You are the Christ, the Son of God!”
And He, rebuking them, did not allow them to speak, for they knew that He was the Christ.
●When one engages in a deliverance ministry and the demons manifest, they sometimes speak.
●But when demons communicate with us ,most of the time, they speak lies .
●Never immediately believe something the demon says
●Always make it a point to reply to them according to the Word of God.
●Mathew Chapter 4 Here, when in the desert 🏜, where Jesus is tempted by the devil, each time Jesus replies completely with the Word of God.
●One way we can humanly identify whether a person is demon processed is to look at their eyes .
●This is not something like a sure shot formula, but this can indeed help us discern if there is a demon residing in the person
●If the person is able to make eye contact with you, then they most probably have a lesser possibility of having a demon.
●But one general sign is that they refuse to make eye contact. They just turn in some other direction and don’t look straight .
●Also, the demon tries to resist when one ministers for its removal.
●We see this in Mark 5:10
Also, he begged Him earnestly that He would not send them out of the country.
●Here, this is a form of resistance demonstrated by this demon possessed person.
●In the verse, the demons identify themselves as legion.
●Legion means a group .
●We believe there might have been at least 2000 demons in the group.
●The realm of demons is extremely organized, and
●they work as a group,and the group will have a head demon.
●One has to identify this head demon and command that head demon to come out along with his associates
●So, for example, if a person is struggling with a spirit of unforgivness, this spirit of unforgivness may have many associated spirits, like the spirit of cruelty,spirit of murder,spirit of contention, the spirit of envy, spirit of uncleanness etc.
●It’s your responsibility to identify and call out the head demon and also his associates.
●Examples for head demons :
Head Demon:Lying Spirit
Associated Demons are
*Strong deception
*Flattering
*Superstition
*Religious bondage
*False prophesy
*Accusation
*Slander
*Gossip
*Lies
*False teachers
For the Head demon : the spirit of harlatory the associated demons are:
*Spirit of perversion
*Spirit of fornication
*Spirit of homosexuality
*Spirit of masturbation
*Spirit of beastility
*Spirit of fantasy
Head Demon:Spirit of infirmity ie spirits causing sickness
Associated spirits are :
*Bent body
*Lameness
*Alergies
*Arthritis
*Impotance
*Cancer
*Weakness, etc
Head deamon : the spirit of the antichrist.
The associated demons are:
*Spirit that denies the diety of Christ
*Spirit that denies atonement
*Spirit against Christ and his teachings
*Spirit of humanism
*Spirit of worldly speech and action
*Spirit of the deceiver
Anti Christian Spirit
Head demon :Spirit of death, and hell ,the associated spirits are
*spirits of sickness
*spirit of suicidal thoughts
*spirit of fear
*spirit of destruction, etc
●In the verse Mark 5:10, we see the demon begging Jesus,not to send them out of the country.
●From this, we conclude that a particular demon dominates a particular territory.
●These demons do not want to leave their particular territory.
●Here, the demon is seen begging not to be sent out of its territory.
●The behavior of the people in the particular place will show the influence of the territorial demon.
●For people of a place to come to God ,it’s the responsibility of the anointed to command the territorial evil force (demon) to leave that territory.
●They can only be driven out ,not destroyed.
●The world will be free of them only in the mellinial reign.
●We need authority to banish these demons from their territory.
●Also ,when we cast out the demons from a particular person ,the demons may try to re -enter the person from whom they were cast out .
●Mathew 12:43
When an unclean spirit goes out of a man, he goes through dry places, seeking rest, and finds none. (v.44 )Then he says, ‘I will return to my house from which I came.’ And when he comes, he finds it empty, swept, and put in order. (v.45) Then he goes and takes with him seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter and dwell there; and the last state of that man is worse than the first
●From this,we can make out that
*demons are restless.
*demons can see the soul realm
●How did the demon see the persons inside?
It’s because the door of his soul was open.
●How was the door open?
Sin caused the door to be open for the demon to see.
●Sin ,one must understand is an open door to see the inside of you !
●When the demon looked into his inside, demon saw that it was empty.
●The mistake he made was that he did not fill his soul with the Holy Spirit !
●We need to lead a life filled with the Holy Spirit.
●For closing the door of our spirit to all evil spirits and being protected ,we need an infilling of the Holy Spirit.
God bless