Many Christians overlook the fact that demonic agents vary greatly in power. Some are “principalities,” or five-star generals, commanders-in-chief in Satan’s vast army of spirit rebels; others are “powers” of lesser rank, but still colonels and captains over the devil’s hosts; then there are “rulers of the darkness of this world,” literally “age rulers of this darkness,” who exert wide influence in the government of the satanic world system; others are only buck-private demons, “the spiritual forces of wickedness,” who operate widely and in such a varied manner in the realm of evil supernaturalism (Ephesians 6:12; NASB). Obviously, in cases of mild invasion, demons of lesser rank and power are involved.

But it is often forgotten that demons not only differ greatly in power and influence but also in degree of depravity as well. Jesus spoke of a demon spirit who left his abode but then returned, bringing with him “seven other spirits more wicked than himself” (Matthew 12:45).

There is a widespread tendency today to view all demons as dirty, nasty, and viciously immoral. Of course many are. Such depraved demons can enslave only those people who allow their minds to be debased by pornography and who give themselves up to lewdness and sexual license of every sort.

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But many demons are nice, refined, religious, and “good” in a self-righteous sense. They are perfectly at home in a religion that rejects the gospel of salvation by faith and substitutes the devil’s false gospel of salvation by works and extols human goodness as procuring acceptance before God (cf. 1 Timothy 4:1–2).

 Merrill Frederick Unger, What Demons Can Do to Saints (Chicago, IL: Moody Publishers, 1991), 115–116.

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Listening leads to believing, which in turn results in receiving (opening the life to entry and eventual demonization).

 Merrill Frederick Unger, What Demons Can Do to Saints (Chicago, IL: Moody Publishers, 1991), 119.

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If you flirt with pornography, some satanic powers will corrupt and enslave your mind. It is an easy step from there to bind your life with lustful cravings that will enslave your body in sin with far deeper tyranny than the old nature could effect apart from demon power.

 Merrill Frederick Unger, What Demons Can Do to Saints (Chicago, IL: Moody Publishers, 1991), 120.

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Only by facing the problem with an open mind concerning what the Word of God has to say on the subject, and then conducting a spiritual warfare (Ephesians 6:10–20) based on what we are in Christ, can we face reality in this realm.

Christ’s salvation is the basis of complete deliverance from demon power. Let us show people the way of full deliverance!

 Merrill Frederick Unger, What Demons Can Do to Saints (Chicago, IL: Moody Publishers, 1991), 122–123.

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There are two ways to approach God: theologically and experientially. You can know God experientially and not know much theology, but it’s good to know both. The more you know about God theologically the better you can know Him experientially.

 A. W. Tozer and David E. Fessenden, The Attributes of God: Deeper into the Father’s Heart, vol. 2 (Camp Hill, PA: WingSpread, 2001–), 107.

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We would cut down the length of a lot of prayers if we recognized that God can’t learn anything. The average church deacon may take up to twenty minutes every Sunday giving God lessons. But God can’t learn because He already knows everything there is to know. He knows the thing that you’re trying to tell Him and He knows it more perfectly than you do.

 A. W. Tozer and David E. Fessenden, The Attributes of God: Deeper into the Father’s Heart, vol. 2 (Camp Hill, PA: WingSpread, 2001–), 110.

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God knows all that there is. He never discovers anything and He never finds out anything. He never wanders around seeking information.

 A. W. Tozer and David E. Fessenden, The Attributes of God: Deeper into the Father’s Heart, vol. 2 (Camp Hill, PA: WingSpread, 2001–), 116.

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 Dr. Donald G. Barnhouse noted, “The angel rolled away the stone from Jesus’ tomb, not to let the living Lord out, but to let the unconvinced outsiders in.”

 R. Larry Moyer, Show Me How to Preach Evangelistic Sermons, Show Me How Series (Grand Rapids, MI: Kregel Academic & Professional, 2012), 116.