A few months ago a friend encouraged me to get and read “The Bondage Breaker” by Neil T. Anderson. He said, “For so long I just didn’t get it.” I was thinking, “Get what?” But once I got the book, I started to understanding that I didn’t get it either!
Have you ever wondered why demonic activity was so visible around the life and ministry of Jesus and his followers in the New Testament, yet in our day it seems absent. In Seminary I would hear from missionaries, working in “developing” countries, explain that encounters with demon oppressed people were much more common on the “mission field.” From that I was left to conclude that demonic activity must have either ceased or become more subtle in the more modern cultures. After all, in America, we have a scientific approach to people’s mental disorders and addictions; there are certainly not demonic forces at work in lives of people.
If this is where you are in your views, I suggest you get your hands on this book. This is not a “snake handlers” approach to demonic activity. In the words of the author, “We are not in a power struggle with evil forces; we are in a truth struggle.” This is covered with scripture, appropriately used and contextual. While I understood the concepts of the book before I read it, I had never really put them all together, to get it. Our Adversary’s chief strategy is to deceive. When someone is deceived they are unaware of reality. When we are being deceived by someone we are unaware; that is why it’s called deception.
James 1:13-16 reads,
“When tempted, no one should say, “God is tempting me.” For God cannot be tempted by evil, nor does he tempt anyone; but each one is tempted when, by his own evil desire, he is dragged away and enticed. Then, after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, gives birth to death. Don’t be deceived, my dear brothers.” Get the book, read it.
(I refer to the enemy as The Adversary; “Satan” makes me laughingly think of the church lady. Dana Carvey was certainly hilarious; but I think it makes us laugh and miss the real deal.)
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