There's a Crack in Your Armor Perry Stone

new covenant and learning the Word of God create in you a renewed mind, a clean heart, and right thinking, making you a new creation. We read: Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new. —2 CORINTHIANS 5:17 There are powerful promises and revelations that reveal how Christ has defeated Satan and his rebels through His death and resurrection. This would include any type of spirit that was part of your ancestral lineage. John wrote: He who sins is of the devil, for the devil has sinned from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that He might destroy the works of the devil. —1 JOHN 3:8 Christ did not destroy the devil, as the person of the devil— the fallen angel—still exists and is quite active on earth. Christ did, however, destroy the works of the adversary. The word destroy is used thirty-two times in the King James translation of the Bible. The common Greek word for “destroy” is apollumi and can refer to “fully destroying, to lose, to perish or destroy.” Here, however, John used the Greek word luoto , which means, “to dissolve, to melt, or to loosen.” An example of the same word and concept is found in Matthew 16:19: