21 October 2024
Victory over Demons
●Luke 10 :17-20 Says
Then the seventy returned with joy, saying, “Lord, even the demons are subject to us in Your name.”
The Greek word for SUBJECT is “hupotasso” . hupotasso is seen to be used in the original Greek text.
This is a military term meaning war not on an equal horizontal line of authority but on a vertical chain of command
●Here ,Jesus is on the top(head) of the vertical chain of command. We are below Jesus as the body of Christ ,Satan, and the demons are at the bottom, underneath us.
●This makes it easy to defeat the devil and the demons.
●Romans 16:20 reads
And the God of peace will crush Satan under your feet shortly.
●That’s the place where Satan is ,”Under the feet”
●The fight is never at an equal horizontal level ,it’s at an unequal vertical level , where we, the belivers of Christ ,are higher in the chain of authority and we can defeat Satan and his demons easily.
Some of the symptoms of demonic influence
- An important symptom is torment
If there is some demonic influence, it mostly entered through an open door, and that open door is sin .
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●1 John 4:18 says
There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves torment
● When fear becomes unhealthy,that fear is caused by a demonic spirit .
●2 Timothy 1:7 says
God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.
●Fear when it’s caused by a demonic spirit ,results in torment.
●If a person is tormented frequently, then it’s very much possible that the person is under the influence of a demonic spirit.
● No self control A person under the influence of demons, loses his self control .
Galatians 5:22 says
‘But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, self-control . Against such there is no law.’
●If a person is under the leadership of the Holy Spirit, that person will have self-control
But if the person is under the influence of a demonic spirit, he will lose his self-control.
● Strange reactions
Mark 9:22
Here, the Father of the demon pocessed boy says : And often he has thrown him both into the fire and into the water to destroy him.
●Some people at times do strange things, it could be due to a demonic influence
●When the devil receives a legal right or an opportunity to sit on a person’s internal organs ,for example in the case of a person who is addicted to alcohol, the devil gets the opportunity to sit on that person’s liver and destroy it.
So strange reactions are also a sign of demonic influence.
● Frequent feeling of suffocation can also be the influence of demons.
● Vocal Noises The person influenced by the demon hear strange noises
(This is not the same as the disease Tinnitus )
●symptom is that one keeps feeling like someone is speaking in their ears.
●This, too, can be a sign of influence of demons
● In Dreams if a person repeatedly sees terrible,unpleasant dreams, one has to check their life ,there is all possibility that there is a demonic influence on it.
●Choking of the throat and suffocation can be another sign of a demonic influence
● Violent Actions people under such demonic influences may also try to bite or scratch another person ,this is a
sign of demonic influence.
● Intestinal disturbance can also happen.
Many times, it’s seen that when prayed over ,people with demonic influences tend to vomit.
● Depression is another sign of demonic influence.
● One needs to check whether the person has repeated thoughts of suicide.
●In Mark 5 ,the man pocessed was always trying to harm or kill himself.
“And always, night and day, he was in the mountains and in the tombs, crying out and cutting himself with stones.”
●Demonic influence brings a nature of self-destruction to a person, where he tries to damage his own body.
● Guilt The person is usually filled with thoughts of guilt, unforgivness, and bitterness.
●Acts 8:23 says
For I see that you are poisoned by bitterness and bound by iniquity.
●If a person constantly carries guilt, unforgivness, and bitterness, he could be under the influence of a demon.
● Violent Temper
1 Samuel 19:10
9 Now the distressing spirit from the Lord came upon Saul as he sat in his house with his spear in his hand. And David was playing music with his hand.
●Here, we see that Saul was under the influence of a distressing spirit(demon)
10 Then Saul sought to pin David to the wall with the spear, but he slipped away from Saul’s presence; and he drove the spear into the wall. So David fled and escaped that night.
●In this verse ,we see that Saul acts violently under the influence of the demonic spirit.
● Seeing Demons
A person sees demons with his naked eyes or in visions frequently, that too is a sign of a demonic influence.