Would you go to Ephesians, please?

Book of Ephesians and the fourth chapter we begin

talking about this and the title of the series

we've begun is give no place to the devil.

Give no place to the devil. Give no place to the devil.

Ephesians 4 is where we find this phrase.

And we'll, we need to back up a little bit.

Let's see.

Ephesians 4 and verse 24 says, put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.

Verse 25, wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbor, for we are

members one of another. Be ye angry and sin not. Let not the sun go down upon your wrath,

neither give place to the devil.

Let him that stole still no more, but rather let him labor working with his hands the thing

which is good that he may have to give to him that needs.

Now this goes on, and there's so many good things here,

but the phrase is verse 27,

neither give place to the devil.

Now just in this one sentence,

there's so much revelation.

There obviously is a devil, right? If there's no devil, then there's no issue of giving in place. There's obviously a devil. If you believe the Bible and you believe God is real, then you should believe that what else the Bible says about spirits, that angels are real and the devil is real. Evil spirits are real.

Now, we touched on this last time, but after being around this now for decades people seem to

get in the ditch on one side extreme or the other when talking about the devil

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