Forgiving Others

One common way in which believers give satan a legal claim in their lives is failing to forgive others. Jesus taught us that we are forgiven by God in the same measure in which we forgive others. We are entitled to claim forgiveness from God in a measure greater than that with which we forgive others. If there is any person who we do not forgive, in a corresponding measure, we are not forgiven by God. That means the area of un-forgiveness in our own lives is an area over which satan still has a legal claim.

We cannot dislodge him until we have forgiven whom-ever it may be who needs to be forgiven. Redemption is coextensive with the forgiveness of sins. If all our sins are forgiven, then we have the total rights of redemption. satan has no legal claim outstanding against us. But if there is any area in our lives in which sin has not been totally dealt with, satan still has legal claim in that area.

We can get all the preachers to preach & pray over us, but we will not dislodge the devil, because he knows he has a legal claim. We need to remember that the devil is a legal expert and he knows it, too. However, God’s Word offers us total forgiveness of sin.