![]() James 4:7 “ Submit yourselves therefore to God. The first and very important step is to submit yourself to God in every way and the second is to resist the enemy and he will eventually flee. Do not miss that there are two steps to be followed here. So what does the Bible teach in regards to spiritual warfare prayers? James explains the basic manner in which this should be done. If it does, then the authority of Scripture is depreciated. The Church today should not understand and practice the teachings of Jesus differently than the Church of the first century. And hence it is not credible to assume that they understood the teaching of Jesus as an instruction to “ bind Satan” through prayers and verbal declarations and then never follow the instructions personally. But he also died to rescue all of us who live each day in fear of dying.”Īnd as we also saw previously on page one, the apostles never said, “ I bind you, Satan?” Not even once is such an utterance recorded in the entire New Testament. ![]() He died to destroy the devil, who had power over death. It is not done by people constantly shouting, “ I bind you Satan” into the heavenlies! Hebrews 2:14-15 says, “ We are people of flesh and blood. The Bible does not leave us in the dark as to how this is accomplished. The coming of Jesus and the binding of Satan liberates the souls of people who were subject to slavery their whole life. ![]() The goods that are plundered are people, previously held in bondage. The meaning is that Jesus is stronger than Satan and that the casting out of evil spirits in His ministry proves that fact. Whether victory is accomplished by binding, overpowering, disarming, etc., is not as consequential as the fact that it is a stronger man who must do it. Bind is incidental to the picture of a strong man’s house being plundered. The fact that Luke’s account does not even use the word bind verifies this. Thus the word bind as used in Matthew 12 is metaphorical and not some magic word that stops the activity of Satan or demons or evil spirits if you prefer. overcomes him, he takes away his armour in which he trusted, and divides his spoil.” And hence was effectively saying, if I am not the Messiah, stronger than Satan, how could I spoil him? Luke 11:21-22 records the account but note Luke does not use the term bind, but says the stronger man “. He was saying that no one can enter a man’s house and take his goods unless he has first conquered him. So Jesus used a metaphor to illustrate His mission. Jesus continued by saying it is by the Spirit of God that he drives out demons, which He can do because He is the stronger man. Jesus was showing the foolishness of the Pharisees statement by saying, that if Satan were casting out Satan, his kingdom could not stand. And we saw that Matthew 12:26-29 does address the issue of Satan and demons but is not what many erroneously teach. As previously discussed, the real Biblical binding and loosing meaning is originally a Jewish phrase and is the authority to declare what God’s mind is on a matter of doctrine or practice.
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