Rightly Dividing Man: Spirit, Soul, and Bodytongues, he would be all right for a while, but he never
got delivered.
His wife said that after hearing me teach on the
believer's authority, she realized what she should have
done. The stroke had affected her husband's brain, so
he couldn't oversee his own mind and body anymore.
Because of that, the devil took advantage of him.
He became a different person, partially because of
the stroke, of course, but in his case an evil spirit was
also involved. Saved or unsaved, man can be oppressed
in mind or body by evil spirits. His wife didn't know to
stand against it in the Name of Jesus and take
authority over it.
After her husband had gone to be with the Lord, his
wife realized she should have stood against Satan and
commanded him to take his hands off God's property. I
assured her that Satan had to obey the Word!
Protection Against the Enemy
Keeping your body under subjection to your
recreated spirit is a major defense against Satan. The
Bible says, "Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist
the devil, and he will flee from you" (James 4:7). When
you submit your body to God and don't allow it to do
things that are wrong, it's going to be a lot easier for
you to resist the devil.
God knows without submitted bodies and
transformed minds, believers won't be able to follow the
leading of the Holy Spirit as they should. The Bible
says, "For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they
are the sons of God" (Rom. 8:14).
It doesn't say, "For as many as are led by the body
or the five physical senses, they are the sons of God." Or