Re: [TruthTalk] Faith vs. Works

[GJTabor]

I agree.  No one was suggesting we bind Satan with out own power.  I disagree if you are saying we can't bind Satan though the power of the blood of Jesus.

don’t think it is a good idea to attempt to bind Satan. We can bind evil spirits, but concerning Satan we are told that even the archangel Michael only rebuked him, Jude 1:9 “Yet Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil he disputed about the body of Moses, durst not bring against him a railing accusation, but said, The Lord rebuke thee.” The context speaks of those who were not afraid of Satan’s principalities and power, Jude 1:8 “Likewise also these [filthy] dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion, and speak evil of dignities.” Jude 1:10 “But these speak evil of those things which they know not: but what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves.”  It is like the story of the little girl who heard the doorbell, but looked out and saw that it was Satan, so she knelt down and asked Jesus to answer the door. When she looked out again, Satan was gone. I know that Copeland urges people to bind Satan, but I think these verses are given to us for a reason. I suggest we can plead the blood of Jesus against Satan, James Templeton