How should Christians think about demonic activity?

On this edition of Truth in Love.

I'm Heath Lambert and you're listening to Truth in Love, a podcast of the Association of Certified Biblical Counselors,

where we seek to provide biblical solutions for the

problems that people face. A common question that many Christians have is about the nature of the devil

and demonic activity in the Christian life. To help us think through some of the questions that people are

asking, Amy Evanson, the producer of Truth and Love, is here to ask some of the questions that are on people's minds.

So in the Christian life, we're thinking about sin and suffering and different things going on, but demons aren't always on the forefront of our minds.

So could you talk about, are demons real?

And do they pose an actual problem for Christians?

Yeah, I think that's a good question, and I think you're right.

I think that Christians do find it easy to think about threats from the world and sins that they struggle with.

And maybe sometimes the spiritual

forces of darkness, which are so often invisible, is not something that we think about with a lot

of intentionality. And so just to answer the question, are demons real? Is the devil real? The answer to

that question is yes. And the answer to that question is yes and the answer to that question is

yes because the bible is so clear that the devil does exist and the bible's clear about this in a lot

of places but one place where the bible is crystal clear is in first peter chapter five and in verse

eight it says be sober minded be watchful your adversary the devil

prowls around like a roaring lion seeking someone to devour so the bible says the devil is real and in fact

the bible compares the devil to a lion. And he uses the work of

devouring or of a lion consuming his prey to characterize the work of the devil. The devil goes

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