When the Spirit of God reveals a bondage in your personality, confess it to God or to a fellow saint. God will forgive and cleanse you. The prayers of another Christian will help greatly—especially at first as you are learning to walk in the open confession of sins.

Put to death through the Holy Spirit the deeds of your flesh. Judge the spirits. Tell them they are condemned to the Lake of Fire, that they do not belong in the Body of Christ.

Disown the demons. Tell them they are not welcome, that you reject and repudiate them totally. Make no exception. Have no mercy on any devil, great or small, or on a familiar spirit (a spirit you have grown accustomed to conversing with). Cast them all out. Walk in spiritual holiness before the Lord. This is the path to spiritual freedom.

As we have stated, the churches of Christ are filled with unclean spirits of every kind. Now it is time to bring the judgment of Christ on these unclean spirits. Name them as you are able. Bring the fire of Christ on them. If you do not, they will destroy you. God will accept none of them. They all are destined for the Lake of Fire.

A major part of the salvation reserved for the last days is the separation of the Lord's elect from every evil spirit. This separation will occur first in the victorious saints, and then, through the victorious saints, will spread to the remainder of the elect and finally to the nations of saved peoples of the earth.

The Lord's people are as Lazarus. They have been called forth from the tomb but they are bound with graveclothes. Now it is time for the removal of the graveclothes. Judgment has come to the house of God.

We have referred to salvation from guilt to forgiveness, salvation from spiritual death to eternal life, and salvation from spiritual bondage to spiritual freedom. The fourth aspect of salvation is salvation from disobedience to obedience.

Salvation From Disobedience to Obedience

There are numerous admonitions to righteous and holy living contained in both the Old and New Testaments. We are to practice them. When we find it difficult to obey them we are to come boldly before the throne of grace and obtain the wisdom and strength we need in order to do what God has said.

Numerous Christian people do not take the Lord's Word seriously. They wave their Bibles and cry out that it is the infallible Word of God! But for some reason they do not read these "infallible" Scriptures with the intention of doing what they say. Perhaps it is because there are teachers who claim it is not necessary for us to do what the Scriptures command because we are saved by grace. There are other Christian teachers who maintain it is impossible for us to obey the Word and that Jesus will do it all for us.

To be continued.