When we talk about demons we have to caution ourselves not to go overboard in this area. We don’t want to start thinking everything that goes wrong is because of demons. That would be a misunderstanding on our part; attributing too much power to them. Many times when things go wrong it is our own fault. We initiated a chain of events that caused things to turn out badly. Demons are limited in number, power and ability; they are however tricky, sometimes initiating a suggestion that we think is our own thought to which we follow, resulting in a bad outcome. If we see from the Bible people being set free we have to ask, did those people know they were not free? This is why we have exousia and dunamis for evangelizing. Those we speak to do not know they are mentally being held captive. If we extract those demons blinding the minds of the unsaved, they can come to a saving knowledge of Jesus Christ. That is the goal, that is the reason we have power.

Our power is really not given to us to fix the saved. The greatest distortion of the charismatic church today is in healing and deliverance. For some reason people have been led to believe (and remember Lucifer had Holy Places) that Christians should all be healed, healthy, and living “heaven on earth”. But that is not what we see in the first century church. Just because power is available does not mean we have the right to use it how we want; overwhelmingly from scripture, every place dunamis or exousia was used was in preaching the gospel.

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