Exposing Satan's Playbook The Perry Stone

to deceive the apostles and cheat God out of a vow they had made. The point is that Christians can come under demonic influence without ever being possessed by a spirit. Paul warned the church not to allow Satan to get the advantage of them and not to be “ignorant of his devices” (2 Cor. 2:11). On one occasion Paul was informed of a young man who was committing fornication with his father’s wife (his stepmother, 1 Cor. 5:1–5). Paul reprimanded the congregation for allowing this act to go unchecked among the congregation and demanded the congregation to “deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus” (v. 5). This was a sinning church member whose sin was known to all. This fornicating man would, in all likelihood, have been called a Christian by the church. However, his unrepentant sin was opening a door to Satan to attack his flesh in some manner. Paul hoped that the effect of this satanic attack would bring the young man to repentance—that his soul would be saved in the day of Christ. A TTACKS OF S ATAN ON B ELIEVERS If as a believer you do not continually renew the spirit of your mind (Eph. 4:23) and do not cast down carnal imaginations (2 Cor. 10:5), you may find yourself under a mental oppression of the devil. The anointing of the Holy Spirit on Christ was the weapon used to heal “all who were oppressed by the devil” (Acts 10:38). The Greek word for “oppressed” in Acts 10:38