The Working of Saten in the World Today

flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
Acts 26:18 To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me. .

III. The reason many today that do not believe in the devil is found in:
2 Cor 4:4 In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them. .
A. What happens when a person comes to Christ?
1. Demons leave. Sometimes they are cast out but mostly they leave at conversation without notice.
2. When we force them out with great effort they come back.
Matt 12:43 When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest, and findeth none.
44 Then he saith, I will return into my house from whence I came out; and when he is come, he findeth it empty, swept, and garnished.
45 Then goeth he, and taketh with himself seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter in and dwell there: and the last state of that man is worse than the first. Even so shall it be also unto this wicked generation.
B. To be saved and delivered we must be ’Born Again’ and receive Christ Spirit to our lives.
C. We overcome through the Word even as Jesus overcame the Devil on the Mount of Temptation.
D. Let us cease arguing about the existence of demons and concern ourselves with what the demons are actually doing. Donald Bloesch

IV. Jesus cast out unclean spirits:
Mark 1:23 And there was in their synagogue a man with an unclean spirit; and he cried out,
Mark 5:2 And when he was come out of the ship, immediately there met him out of the tombs a man with an unclean spirit,
Luke 9:42 And as he was yet a coming, the devil threw him down, and tare him. And Jesus rebuked the unclean spirit, and healed the child, and delivered him again to his father. .

V. Jesus gave us power over the devil and his spirits.
Matt 10:1 And when he had called unto him his twelve disciples, he gave them power against unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal all manner of sickness and all manner of disease.

VI. The devil recognizes the power of Jesus.
Mark 3:11 And unclean spirits, when they saw him, fell down before him, and cried, saying, Thou art the Son of God. .

VII. One of the characteristics of unclean spirits is sickness, not everything, it is usually something that is growing like cancer.
A. A Christian can be sick from an unclean spirit but not possessed by a demon.
Mark 6:7 And he called unto him the twelve, and began to send them forth by two and two; and gave them power over unclean spirits; .
Luke 6:18 And they that were vexed with unclean spirits: and they were healed. .

B. Some healed, some cast out.
Acts 5:16 There came also a multitude out of the cities round about unto Jerusalem, bringing sick folks, and them which were vexed with unclean spirits: and they were healed every one. .
Acts 8:7 For unclean spirits, crying