Dealing With The Demonic - Lesson 4 Series

1. You have been filled with the love of God

2. You now have God’s love pouring into your heart at all times, no matter where you are or what you are doing. "And hope does not disappoint us, because God has poured out his love into our hearts by the Holy Spirit, whom he has given us." (Rom 5:5 NIV)

3. His love, in turn, motivates you to love Him back in gratitude.

4. Because you are His child, “God sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts.” (Gal 4:6 NIV)

5. This love is what causes you to cry out, "Abba, Father." towards Him. Abba means daddy. (Rom 8:15) What an intimate way of calling to our heavenly Father.

6. Because you are filled with His love, there was created within you the inner conviction that you are truly His.

7. If a person does not have the Holy Spirit in them, then they cannot be a Christian.

"You, however, are controlled not by the sinful nature but by the Spirit, if the Spirit of God lives in you. And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Christ." (Rom 8:9 NIV)

A. You have been Redeemed.

1. Only the shed blood of Jesus can redeem us.

"and are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus." (Rom 3:24 NIV)

2. Jesus provided the ransom payment. He bought you. He paid the price with the infinite, eternal value of His blood.

"In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, in accordance with the riches of God's grace" (Eph. 1:7 NIV)

3. He bought you out of the marketplace of sin, and you now belong to Him by right of purchase.

4. Once Jesus purchases you, you will never be sold back because Jesus has set you free, and now, “you will be free indeed." (John 8:36)

B. You have been Freed from the Curse of the Law.

1. Jesus redeemed you from the curse of the law because He became the curse. "Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us, for it is written: "Cursed is everyone who is hung on a tree." (Gal 3:13)

2. We are no longer under the law but under grace. “For sin shall not be your master, because you are not under law, but under grace." (Rom 6:14)

3. Sin’s dominion was through the law. Mankind’s inability to keep the law manifested their sin and brought them under the curse of the broken law.

4. Faith in Jesus released you from the obligation to a broken law and from any obligation to keep it.

"So, my brothers, you also died to the law through the body of Christ, that you might belong to another, to him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit to God. For when we were controlled by the sinful nature, the sinful passions aroused by the law were at work in our bodies, so that we bore fruit for death. But now, by dying to what once bound us, we have been released from the law so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit, and not in the old way of the written code." (Rom 7:4-6 NIV)

C. You have been Released from a Relationship with satan

1. Satan's grip on a person who is not a Christian is awesome and powerful.

"For he has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son he loves." (Col. 1:13 NIV)

2. No one could ever release themselves or escape from such power.

3. Only Jesus can save them.

4. The lost person is a slave to sin. They are owned and bound by it.

5. If God is your spiritual father, you will prove you are just like Him by living a life of forgiving love.

However, if you don’t love and forgive, you prove that satan is your spiritual father because you are behaving just like him.

6. As your true and only enemy, Satan lies in wait to find your weaknesses and then attack us.

7. When you fight against another, you give Satan the opening he needs to make ineffectual your testimony of the life-changing power of the cross.

8. Satan's main purpose is to blind

“the minds of unbelievers, so that they cannot see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.” (2 Cor. 4:4)

Just as God created light to dispel darkness by saying “Let there be light” (Genesis 1:3), so God today must create spiritual light to “shine in our hearts” so that man may see “the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ.” (2 Cor 4:6)