The DEFEAT of Satan & His Losers

The most important thing you need to understand about the Enemy & his demonic minions is that they’re a defeated foe. They’re stripped of their authority and power as far as regenerated believers are concerned:

And having disarmed the powers and authorities, he [Christ] made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them by the cross.

Colossians 2:15

The “powers and authorities” refer to Satan and his sheeple demons. The Bible calls the devil “the god of this world,” but 1. his reign is a temporary one and 2. he’s been “disarmed” for all those in Christ. To ‘disarm’ means to strip or divest. As such, the devil & his filthy angels have been stripped—deprived of their property, rights and power for all those who come to Christ. In other words, the enemy has been dispossessed!

The very reason Jesus came to this lost and dying world was to destroy the devil’s reign:

The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the devil’s work.

1 John 3:8

This great mission started with the Messiah’s birth, earthly ministry, substitutionary death & resurrection and will culminate with the devil & his filthy angels being cast into the lake of fire (Revelation 20:10 & Matthew 25:41).

How exactly did the Mighty Yeshua “disarm” the devil & his minions and “triumph over them” by his crucifixion and resurrection? By suffering God’s wrath in our place, which is what ‘substitutionary death’ means—the innocent dying for the guilty in order to set them free from their debt of sin and their corresponding bondage to the kingdom of darkness. But—and this is an important “but”—people have to willingly be born-again of the seed of Christ, which is spiritual rebirth (John 3:3,6, Titus 3:5, 1 John 3:9 & 1 Peter 1:23). This regeneration comes through the keys of repentance and faith (Acts 20:21).

**What if You Don’t Believe?**

If you don’t have faith—belief—then continue to seek it out. Those who seek shall find (Jeremiah 29:13 & Matthew 7:7). “Come near to God and he’ll come near to you” (James 4:8). It’s an axiom!

Let me illustrate from my own life: During my adolescence I heard the gospel from a few people and I also collected several tracts that presented the good news of Christ. I don’t know how, but I instinctively knew I needed some kind of rebirth—a fresh start in life—and so I prayed the salvation prayer at the end of those tracts on a few separate occasions during those dark years. Nothing happened, however, because I simply didn’t have the faith at the time. Simply put, I didn’t believe… yet.

So I carried on in my lost state, but I still genuinely sought the truth—the way it really is—even though some paths ended up being dead ends (like psychology, astrology, etc.). But, years later when I was 20, I was working at a fitness center cleaning the women’s shower room well after midnight when something ‘clicked’ in my mind and I saw the light. All I knew was: “I was blind but now I see!” (John 9:25). I was instantaneously saved and drove home that late night with an amazing sense of peace. The next morning I confessed Christ to my mother and sister with a spirit of newfound joy. The rest is His-story. I’ve continued to grow in faith as I sought the LORD and the truth, i.e. reality—the way it really is.

For details on my salvation experience see this video.

Satan & His Loser Angels Are Disarmed and Defeated!

For the spiritually reborn believer, the devil & his filthy spirits are disarmed because we’re born of the seed* of Christ by the Holy Spirit. More than that, God lives in us through the indwelling Spirit and so we are temples of God (1 Corinthians 6:19).

* ‘Seed’ in 1 John 3:9 is the Greek word for sperm; in 1 Peter 1:23 it’s spora (spor-AH).

This is the mind-blowing “mystery” of the gospel—“Christ in you, the hope of glory” (Colossians 1:27). How is Christ in us? Through spiritual rebirth wherein we’re “created to be like God in true righteousness” (Ephesians 4:22-24) and also through the indwelling Spirit of Christ (Romans 8:9). The kingdom of darkness is disarmed in the lives of all those in Christ; they’re stripped of all their authority and power. Even more, those born of the Mighty Conqueror have authority and power over all wicked spirits. Authority means the right to rule whereas power means the ability to rule. And we have both over the devil & his filthy minions.

We have to get away from this idea that the devil & his loser underlings are these uber-scary creatures. This is only so for the unbeliever who’s subject to them. For believers born of the seed of the Mighty Christ by the power of the Holy Spirit all filthy spirits have been stripped of their authority and power! Remember: They’re spiritual doofuses who foolishly rebelled against the Almighty and lost their glorious place in Heaven and all the blessings thereof. How smart can they possibly be? Not very. Don’t be scared of ’em! The truth is, they’re scared of believers who know and walk in their authority and power.

So it’s of the utmost importance that you understand who you are in Christ—your position, authority and power. Know who you are and walk like it, talk like it! You’ll send the Enemy and his smelly cronies fleeing from you in terror; it’s true (James 4:7). If you want an example straight from the Scriptures see this article.

It’s of paramount importance that you grasp these truths if you want to walk free of the harassment of evil spirits. This doesn’t mean that they won’t attack you but, when they do, you are guaranteed the victory as you “fight the good fight faith” (1 Timothy 6:12). If there’s a fight to faith there are enemies to faith. You’ll never outgrow spiritual warfare; you must simply learn to fight!

‘Spiritual warfare,’ by the way, simply means to defeat satanic attacks through the spiritual weapons God has provided us. For details see these three articles:

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