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    Can a Christian have a demon?

    I have found, in ministry (no name Jesus ministry), that it the truth that overcomes the lies that bring people into bondage. The ones who keep getting entangled in bondage are the ones who haven't yet grasped the truth....and the life in God it is describing. Some people are unbalanced or...
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    Divine Hiddenness

    But an atheist can still spot a religious bigot. That's something a religious person can't understand...otherwise they would be loving type of people.
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    Can a Christian have a demon?

    Hi Helen! :) When I think of a deliverance ministry I think of UPS, or Purolater. The problem with these buzzwords is that they become a world unto themselves and others seek to emulate what has originally been of the Lord and pump it up into the religious culture. We see this in many 'winds" of...
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    Upping the ante

    Who understands this passage?.... Gal. 2:19 For I through the law am dead to the law, that I might live unto God. Through what law? (Paul is quite confusing with all his references to law without being specific about what he's talking about) And what does this have to do with....the soul...
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    Divine Hiddenness

    Please pardon the religious condescension displayed here. Some people have been misguided in their self-importance.
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    Divine Hiddenness

    But you are looking for an encounter with God correct not just a generic belief in a Creator? But God decides these things. Blessed is he who believes and yet has not seen...or encountered. For most people they must meet God through His people. As in...inasmuch as you did it to the least of...
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    Getting Grace Right

    Sure. But some people are just naturally more humble than others....because they don't take themselves so seriously. Unfortunately, most believers get quickly indoctrinated into thinking they are God's special emissary to earth...so they get puffed up in their carnal minds. It makes for a lot of...
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    Can a Christian have a demon?

    The battlefield is the mind. If we believe a lie...it gives ground to the devil to use us in his way. The truth always sets us free....because the truth so so difficult and heavy that it puts the mind below it. A lie puffs up the mind.
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    Can a Christian have a demon?

    I'm not trying to help you anymore...you see...remain as you are.
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    Can a Christian have a demon?

    Completely illogical reasoning. But hey, you can believe as you want to. You are welcome to your own mind....as be it religious as you want it to be. And you can ignore my testimony of a different KIND of life....an alien life....the life OF Jesus Christ...that blows away all the silly human...
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    Can a Christian have a demon?

    You are being religiously simplistic and illogical here. An arm can be broken....and a mind can be fleshly or carnal. Is every arm broken (see how simple I have to explain things to you)??? Is every mind carnal? But put on the mind of Christ.
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    Can a Christian have a demon?

    Of course not...otherwise the mind could not be renewed to become the mind of Christ. You are missing the part of the truth that you lack...which is the greater part. And because of that you can't see what you are lacking. Your condition is very straightforward and to be expected. But you are...
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    The Unclothed State (2 Cor. 5:4)

    You are using an oversimplified use of the text. There is no state of death for a believer...you are making an error in interpretation. A disciple of Christ is always alive before God. You need to look at what is meant by "robes of righteousness"...which is an actual biblical term. A naked...
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    Can a Christian have a demon?

    You are missing the real playground of the devil here....the mind....especially the religious mind that is looking to get the "right" beliefs in order. We know someone is living in the futility of their minds when they go shopping to see which doctrines they agree with. How can a person be...
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    Getting Grace Right

    I'm not speaking here of a way of reasoning but of an actual visitation from God that takes us into His life. Only God can judge that standard of humility. Again, if we consider ourselves humble are we not just being as self-righteous as they who claim to be justified by their own faith?
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    Can a Christian have a demon?

    The way to help a Christian away from demonic power and influence is through a better influence and power. It is through knowledge of the truth. The truth sets us free. So then God's people indeed perish through lack of knowledge. This fact magnifies the efforts of people who walk in the truth...
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    Can a Christian have a demon?

    What I have found is that these specialized ministries are themselves caught up in the same error as everyone else. They seek a magic power from a magic Jesus. But their whole premise is false. It isn't based on a different kind of life. It is a religious grasping at God's healing power...but...
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    Can a Christian have a demon?

    I see it as more insidious than even that. There is a fanaticism I have seen in many evangelicals....this obsession with their own salvation. This claiming to be righteous while they live a very common life according to the flesh....but religiously. The Pharisees were more honest than these in...
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    Divine Hiddenness

    This is true. The problem is that we want God to respond on OUR terms. But God uses silence in order to quieten our spirits. God whispers to us. We want Him to be forceful....but that is not God's way. So then to actually contact God requires humility and quietness. I guess we prefer a voice...
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    Obedience of you all...

    Actually anything less than total sanctification as the goal is to frustrate the grace of God. God gives us grace so that we can fully do His will. His grace is SUFFICIENT for the task of a full sanctification.