Remember that even the demons believe and the devil transforms himself to only pretend to look holy and angelic and to come across as a messenger of light and of righteousness, but the real truth of the matter is the most vile and the most wicked evil is all up in him in every part of his being. Let us not pretend to be more than what we are apart from the grace and gifts bestowed upon us from God thru Christ.
Resisting evil and resisting the devil are outside and inside things. What do I mean? Paul preached, In me, that is in HIS FLESH BODY dwells NO GOOD THING. He said EVIL lives and dwells in the flesh of his being (Romans 7:14-25) So you say you don't believe it? Well just let your flesh do all it wants, all it wants to say when it wants to say it and all it wants to do every time it desires to do it without you resisting any of its compulsions and you will see how vile and evil the flesh, the sinful flesh still is and really is.
The truth of this matter is that the gifts and the workmanship of Christ is in our hearts, deep in the spirit of our inner being, and not in our present flesh. The holy work is of and in the spirit of man created new in Christ Jesus but the flesh remains unregenerated and remains vile and full of wicked sly desires as the craft of the serpents constant hiss and spiritual bite that cursed us in the beginning in the fall of Adam.
Yes the spirit is made alive in Christ Jesus but the flesh is still weak and sinful and must be subdued daily or the world will not be able to tell any difference of us from themselves. The spirit is right and is willing in Christ Jesus but the flesh is wrong and weak. So learn to walk in the spirit and you will not give into the desires of the sinful flesh with all its deceitful and confusing corrupted lust (Galations 5:13-26)
Many many times, what christians think is the voice of the devil speaking to them, is not the devil at all but is the voice of their own sinful side, of their own sinful flesh. The voice of the flesh tells us when something feels good and the voice of the flesh tells us when we feel pain. The voice of the flesh will also cry out to us, to our minds the words and thoughts that come from the voice of its sinful wicked vile nature as well. That ROAMING EYE OF YOURS is not the devil but the lust of your OWN EYES and of your own sinful flesh.
And the truth shall set you free...Preaching peace thru the blood of His Cross......share freely.....deno.