James 4:7, “Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.”
Paraphrase from the Greek, “Passively be subjected under God’s grace by the revelation of Christ in you. Resist, oppose and STAND (not sit) against the enemy or adversary and he will flee and take flight.”
Why does the adversary flee and take flight? Because Christ in you is enabling you to STAND established in Him by His grace and you have not moved because it is not within your nature to move or compromise.
If real Light is in me according to hearing the word of faith and the revelation of Christ in me by grace, then resistance to anything dark is passively accomplished due to the nature of the light and revelation of the word in me. The light of the word is truth and reality in me.
Col. 1:12-14, “Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet to be partakers (or something that is a portion or part of something else, His fullness and nature) of the inheritance of the saints in light: Who hath delivered (rescued and preserved) us from the power of darkness, and hath translated (transferred and transposed) [us] into the kingdom of his dear Son: In whom we have redemption through his blood, [even] the forgiveness of sins:”
His work is more real than anything else apart from Him. In Him, my conscience is not aware of the judgment or penalty of the self-imposed law of my heart. Now, in Him, there is NO condemnation ever, but grace unto righteousness, holiness and glory in Him.
Due to its nature darkness cannot apprehend light. He is the hope of glory and light of the world in us!
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