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Clarissa Rojas

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Spiritual Oppression, Battling Anxiety and Obedience w Clarissa Rojas | SavedNotSoftPodcast

demonic oppression isn't going to exist so yeah okay wait back to the original question because i want to squash it real quick so people have the question if you're a christian and you're in perfect harmony with god then how is it that christians still go through demonic oppression so there's a difference between possession and oppression every person we see who's possessed in the bible were people who were not believers of god but god had but jesus had used the deliverance from their possession to bring them to him right yeah

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Spiritual Oppression, Battling Anxiety and Obedience w Clarissa Rojas | SavedNotSoftPodcast

demonic oppression isn't going to exist so yeah okay wait back to the original question because i want to squash it real quick so people have the question if you're a christian and you're in perfect harmony with god then how is it that christians still go through demonic oppression so there's a difference between possession and oppression every person we see who's possessed in the bible were people who were not believers of god but god had but jesus had used the deliverance from their possession to bring them to him right yeah

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Spiritual Oppression, Battling Anxiety and Obedience w Clarissa Rojas | SavedNotSoftPodcast

But oppression is experiencing demonic pressure, not necessarily to where it's dictating the inside of you and your thinking and all these things. Because like how I said, the only thing that Satan can do is leverage your flesh. But it's oppressing you. It's oppressive. It is damaging. But it's not... It's not overtaking you in other areas like how possession would.

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Spiritual Oppression, Battling Anxiety and Obedience w Clarissa Rojas | SavedNotSoftPodcast

But oppression is experiencing demonic pressure, not necessarily to where it's dictating the inside of you and your thinking and all these things. Because like how I said, the only thing that Satan can do is leverage your flesh. But it's oppressing you. It's oppressive. It is damaging. But it's not... It's not overtaking you in other areas like how possession would.

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Spiritual Oppression, Battling Anxiety and Obedience w Clarissa Rojas | SavedNotSoftPodcast

And so they're like, okay, well, if you're perfectly in harmony with God, how could that happen? So we could go to two instances in the Bible. First one, we could go to Matthew chapter four, where Jesus is in the garden and he's fasting for 40 days and 40 nights and he's oppressed by Satan himself.

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Spiritual Oppression, Battling Anxiety and Obedience w Clarissa Rojas | SavedNotSoftPodcast

And so they're like, okay, well, if you're perfectly in harmony with God, how could that happen? So we could go to two instances in the Bible. First one, we could go to Matthew chapter four, where Jesus is in the garden and he's fasting for 40 days and 40 nights and he's oppressed by Satan himself.

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Spiritual Oppression, Battling Anxiety and Obedience w Clarissa Rojas | SavedNotSoftPodcast

So how is it that the son of God who was quite literally in perfection being oppressed by Satan himself?

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Spiritual Oppression, Battling Anxiety and Obedience w Clarissa Rojas | SavedNotSoftPodcast

So how is it that the son of God who was quite literally in perfection being oppressed by Satan himself?

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Spiritual Oppression, Battling Anxiety and Obedience w Clarissa Rojas | SavedNotSoftPodcast

So if Jesus was oppressed by Satan, how much more could we be oppressed by evil once again? And so it's knowing how to conquer these things, not invite them, sit at a table and let's play chess or something like that, but instead seeing it for what it is.

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Spiritual Oppression, Battling Anxiety and Obedience w Clarissa Rojas | SavedNotSoftPodcast

So if Jesus was oppressed by Satan, how much more could we be oppressed by evil once again? And so it's knowing how to conquer these things, not invite them, sit at a table and let's play chess or something like that, but instead seeing it for what it is.

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Spiritual Oppression, Battling Anxiety and Obedience w Clarissa Rojas | SavedNotSoftPodcast

And what Hebrews 4.14 says is that we do not have a high priest who is unable to empathize with our weakness, just how he has been tempted just like us, but yet did not fall into sin. It's just understanding that The earth was made and orchestrated to be good, but because sin entered the world, there is a ruler here and it's a prince. It's not a king because the king of all kings is Jesus.

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Spiritual Oppression, Battling Anxiety and Obedience w Clarissa Rojas | SavedNotSoftPodcast

And what Hebrews 4.14 says is that we do not have a high priest who is unable to empathize with our weakness, just how he has been tempted just like us, but yet did not fall into sin. It's just understanding that The earth was made and orchestrated to be good, but because sin entered the world, there is a ruler here and it's a prince. It's not a king because the king of all kings is Jesus.

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Spiritual Oppression, Battling Anxiety and Obedience w Clarissa Rojas | SavedNotSoftPodcast

But Satan is the prince of evil and he was casted down here to reside. And so even when we look at the Garden of Eden, even before all sin broke out, how is it that Adam and Eve were made perfect in God and they're being oppressed by a serpent in a garden?

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Spiritual Oppression, Battling Anxiety and Obedience w Clarissa Rojas | SavedNotSoftPodcast

But Satan is the prince of evil and he was casted down here to reside. And so even when we look at the Garden of Eden, even before all sin broke out, how is it that Adam and Eve were made perfect in God and they're being oppressed by a serpent in a garden?

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Spiritual Oppression, Battling Anxiety and Obedience w Clarissa Rojas | SavedNotSoftPodcast

So you're telling me two perfect human beings were oppressed by Satan. And it's because love requires risk and freedom. So in order for us to experience true compassion with God, we first had, he first has to limit his power in order for us to make a choice. So evil happens, not because God permits it, but because it's allowed. So we can make a choice of what we want to choose. So,

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Spiritual Oppression, Battling Anxiety and Obedience w Clarissa Rojas | SavedNotSoftPodcast

So you're telling me two perfect human beings were oppressed by Satan. And it's because love requires risk and freedom. So in order for us to experience true compassion with God, we first had, he first has to limit his power in order for us to make a choice. So evil happens, not because God permits it, but because it's allowed. So we can make a choice of what we want to choose. So,

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Spiritual Oppression, Battling Anxiety and Obedience w Clarissa Rojas | SavedNotSoftPodcast

Honestly, just being flat out honest, I don't know how many people have dealt with demonic oppression. It could even be addiction, sleeping with somebody you're not supposed to sleep with, doing witchcraft, whatever it may be. Those things, those temptations could feel really easy for you to fall into. But God is asking you, how much do you love me and want to choose me?

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Spiritual Oppression, Battling Anxiety and Obedience w Clarissa Rojas | SavedNotSoftPodcast

Honestly, just being flat out honest, I don't know how many people have dealt with demonic oppression. It could even be addiction, sleeping with somebody you're not supposed to sleep with, doing witchcraft, whatever it may be. Those things, those temptations could feel really easy for you to fall into. But God is asking you, how much do you love me and want to choose me?

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Spiritual Oppression, Battling Anxiety and Obedience w Clarissa Rojas | SavedNotSoftPodcast

Like, will you choose me even though this feels easy, even though everybody else is doing it, even though the majority of Gen Z is doing all this, like, witchcraft, tarot card reading, they sleeping with whoever, they have hookup culture and all this stuff. Like, those things look easy, but are you going to choose me? Like, there's another option.

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Spiritual Oppression, Battling Anxiety and Obedience w Clarissa Rojas | SavedNotSoftPodcast

Like, will you choose me even though this feels easy, even though everybody else is doing it, even though the majority of Gen Z is doing all this, like, witchcraft, tarot card reading, they sleeping with whoever, they have hookup culture and all this stuff. Like, those things look easy, but are you going to choose me? Like, there's another option.