A VACANT PLACE (LUKE 11:24–26)
Christ’s third response to the accusation that His power originated with the prince of demons had to do with filling our lives with God.
I see three principles from Jesus’ words and the total teaching of Scripture.
1. Demons seem to be more at home where they’ve previously dwelled.
2. Those of us who are believers in Christ cannot be demon-possessed, but we can certainly be demon-oppressed.
3. I tend to believe Satan would rather return to a previous job on an individual than find a new one.
2. Those of us who are believers in Christ cannot be demon-possessed, but we can certainly be demon-oppressed.
3. I tend to believe Satan would rather return to a previous job on an individual than find a new one.
Lives swept clean and put in order are vulnerable to demonic defeat. Beloved, listen carefully. We were created by God to be inhabited by His Spirit. We were not created to be empty. The vacuum in every human life does not yearn to be fixed. It yearns to be filled. God can deliver us from a terribly oppressive stronghold, and we can truly clean up our lives and put them in order; but if we don’t fill the void with Him, we are terribly susceptible to a relapse.
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