You can’t be a hostage of satan…
Who’s a hostage? A hostage is a person seized or held as security for the fulfillment of a condition.
Legally the devil has no right to keep you in pornography and masturbation because the price for your sins has already been paid. God didn’t take us back illegally, He paid a price to redeem us. Our sins demanded punishment, and that punishment that was to fall upon us, God has made it fall upon Jesus Christ His Son. The price has already been paid, and that price is the precious Blood of the Son of God. We are free!
It is abnormal and illegal for the devil to hold you captive to pornography and masturbation because the Blood of Jesus Christ has already been shed for you, and because of this you have already defeated satan (Revelation 12:11). How then can the overcomer fall so low and become a hostage of the vanquished?
When God created man, He gave him power to rule over all the earth, as we can read in Genesis 1:26; Then God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness, and let him rule over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth (Translated from the French version Louis Second)
And in the book of revelation we read And the great dragon was cast out, the old serpent, called the devil, and satan, which deceives the whole earth; and he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him. Revelation 12:9 (Translated from the French version Louis Second)
We do not know exactly when satan was cast out into the earth, but one thing is certain, this scene took place in the interval of time between his “revolt” in heaven and the creation of man by God. For a better understanding of the thought that I want to develop, let us take the contracted forms (consider only the words in bold) of these two verses. Let us begin with the very last one which gives us “was cast out… satan… into the earth”, and the first one gives us “God said, let us make man in our image… and let him rule… over all the earth”.) Let us arrange these two contracted forms and we will have "satan was cast out into the earth, and God said, Let us make man in our image, let him rule over all the earth”.
Now the question is: " When God gave man the power to rule over the whole earth, didn’t He know that satan was already thrown down to the earth? "Of course he did! God knew it. So, since God gave man the power to rule over the whole earth while the enemy was already there, it just means that God gave man the power to rule even over the devil just as he had to rule over the fish and all living animals. Man was the master of the world. Before man’s disobedience the enemy didn’t have control over anything at all.
The Bible says The Lord has kept the heavens for himself, but he has given the earth to us humans. (Psalms 115:16). The earth was not given to satan, but to us.
It was after he had deceived man that he stole the power that God had given to man in Genesis 1:26, because the Word of God reveals to us that you are slaves of the one you obey, either of sin that leads to death or of obedience that leads to righteousness (Romans 6:16). By listening to the voice of the devil who led him to eat the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, man had become a hostage of the devil. The logical consequence was that his power to dominate the earth had gone to satan. The enemy now had power over the world, that is why he even had the boldness to tempt Jesus Christ by saying that he would give him the glory of the whole earth if he bowed down before him and worshipped him. Blessed be our Lord who resisted him and pushed him away (Matthew 4:1-11). Jesus Christ is the Man who came to repair all the damage we have done in the Eden garden. He had to die in our place and that is what He did.
The Bible tells us that after eating the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, Adam and Eve realized that they were naked and to cover their nakedness they took fig leaves and sewed sashes from them (Genesis 3:7). Later, the Father Himself will give them clothes made of skin (Genesis 3:21).
This just shows the eternal love of our God for us in spite of our failures and shortcomings. Let’s stop for a moment and ask ourselves, whose skin was it? Was it tree trunk skin or animal skin? I strongly believe it was animal skin because Adam and Eve had already used leaves from a tree to cover their nakedness. But which animal was it? I strongly believe it was a lamb. In my humble opinion, that same day a lamb was slain for men, that we might be clothed with the garments of salvation and covered with the mantle of deliverance (Isaiah 61:10).
If Adam and Eve were dressed in skin clothes, it means that on that day an animal was killed. It was just the image of the Lamb of God that was to come and be sacrificed in our place. God was quick to show His love and bring us back to Him. In Genesis 2:17, God is making a promise to man with the words, "If you eat, you will die. But in His love He did not want to lose us for eternity, so He took a lamb, who is His own Son, and gave Him in our place, so that by His death we might be delivered from the eternal power of death and sin. This is how His love for us was manifested through His righteousness. Because of His righteousness He could not answer the Lord Jesus, in His human nature when He said, "Father, if it is possible, take this cup away from me.” There was no other way by which we could be saved except by the death and blood of Christ. The Lord Jesus recognized this and submitted to the Father’s will and said, "Not my will, but thy will be done.”
Jesus, we have been recovered from the Father, our fault in the Garden of Eden has been forgotten and erased along with all the consequences we would normally have to face. This is why you must say to pornography, masturbation, evil thoughts, and unclean dreams; “You are illegal, Jesus has already accomplished everything and I am no longer under the power of sin because of His Blood”. This is not something you are claiming, it is a truth that you must rely on when you pray to your God and when you cast out demons. You are free! How do you continue to live as a captive? Wake up champion!
Another thing, the day the enemy entered Judas Iscariot (John 13:27), to deliver Jesus to be put to death, frankly I don’t understand what was going on in his head (I speak of the devil). He (satan) who knows the Word of God, we suppose, because he had used it to tempt Jesus Christ, had he lost sight of the fact that the Messiah had to die to save men? If he knew this, then why did he enter Judah Iscariot to deliver Jesus Christ to be put to death! In another Bible account, we see the enemy inspiring Peter with foolish words to prevent the Lord from dying. That day I imagine he knew that if Jesus died on the cross, it would be over for him (satan). Read Matthew 16:21-23.
The conclusions are as follows:
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Satan doesn’t master God’s strategies; he can’t even do that. That is why be sure that he will just be surprised how you will be freed from these addictions.
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Sometimes the devil has no control over his actions. There are times when God Himself uses him to accomplish something and to bring forth His glory. For example, in the story of Job.
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He’s not the strongest, he was defeated and he knows it. Jesus Christ will deliver you.
I am going to show you a passage that will make you understand that the devil is not the strongest, he will soon be stripped, humiliated and annihilated.
Isaiah 14:9-17
- The world of the dead eagerly waits for you. With great excitement, the spirits of ancient rulers hear about your coming.
- Each one of them will say, “Now you are just weak as any of us!
- Your pride and your music have ended here in the world of the dead. Worms are your blanket; maggots are your bed.”
- You, the bright morning star, have fallen from the sky! You brought down other nations; now you are brought down.
- You said to yourself, “I’ll climb to heaven and place my throne above the highest stars. I’ll sit there with the gods far away in the north.
- I’ll be above the clouds, just like God Most High”
- But now you are deep in the world of the dead.
- Those who see you will stare and wonder, “Is this the man who made the world tremble and shook up kingdoms?
- Did he capture every city and make earth a desert? Is he the one who refused to let prisoners go home?”
The end of time is approaching, the devil will be stripped of all power, people who will see him in hell will be astonished and say "is it really him? "He will be covered with worms, the ancient rulers of the earth who will be with him there will say to him, “You have become like us,” and they will laugh at him. This is the truth! This is to tell you that no matter what happens to you in life, Jesus Christ is powerful enough to deliver you, the enemy doesn’t weigh enough before the Lord.