In Ephesians, the fourth chapter, if you'd look, please again, for some weeks now, we've been on this subject of give no place to the devil or no place for the devil.

And you just say that and with a lot of people you lose them when you say the word devil

because that either conjures up horror show images or just that is fictional.

There is no devil.

But if you believe the Bible, and we do,

then there is an enemy.

And we are told that we have responsibility in stopping him from wreaking havoc in our life.

We can do something about it.

And that's one of the greatest revelations you'll ever get.

In Ephesians 4, in verse 21, says,

if so be that you've heard him and have been taught by him,

as the truth is in Jesus, that you put off the form of conversation of the old man.

And verse 24, he says, put on the new man.

Verse 25, putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbor,

remembers one of another, be angry and sin not, let not the sun go down upon your wrath,

neither give place to the devil.

Now the understood subject here is you.

You are not to give place to the devil.

So that means he can't just take place.

And if he has place,

whether

knowingly or ignorantly,

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