Clarissa Rojas
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Saved Not Soft · Spiritual Oppression, Battling Anxiety and Obedience w Clarissa Rojas · 5 Mar 2025
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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
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.
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.
So how is it that the son of God who was quite literally in perfection being oppressed by Satan himself?
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.
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.
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?
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,
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?
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.
It's like God just allows that to happen, not because he wants us to choose evil, but actually because he wants us to choose him. And if God forced us to choose him, then it wouldn't feel fair. God is just and he's fair. So if God didn't orchestrate freedom and risk because love can't exist outside the parameters of that, then we wouldn't have a free choice to freely choose them.
Therefore, it wouldn't actually be a relationship. It would be dictatorship. I did a whole podcast episode on this if there's people who are listening who are like, Bro, what? There's a whole episode talking about why does God allow suffering? But it's kind of like that question. Like, dang, God, like, why do you... Like, I bet even Paul had that question with God in 2 Corinthians 12.
Like, why did you allow the messenger of Satan to come and put this thorn in my flesh? But he answered it. He was like, because it keeps me humble and it keeps me needy. And I understand why you did this, God. It's not because...
you want this to happen it's because you want my neediness yeah and it's because if that wasn't allowed to happen it's almost as if god allowed that to happen because paul couldn't infiltrate that that behavior for himself yeah like i bet if we were to keep ourselves needy all the time and if we humbled ourselves all the time like we'd be good yeah but like god has to humble us yeah because we fail to humble ourselves you know exactly
No, I even think when it comes to like our own selfish inclination and desires that we were within the spirit, Paul, he's like, is it in second Corinthians where he's like, I do what I do not want to do. It says Romans 7.
It says I do not want to do what I do want to do. I don't do it because of sin that lives within me.
Yeah. So it's like this constant, like bad. Does that mean like you can't have a relationship with God or get, God can't grant you grace again. Like literally God says, God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble. Like you can't even have grace without humility. True. Like, To even think about that is crazy because everyone's like, oh, free grace, blah, blah, blah.
Everyone's living by this grace that enables them instead of changes them. And that's the problem in our society. It's like, you know, oh, I can do whatever I want, blah, blah, blah. And we're living by this false doctrine of grace. And it's like, no, it's supposed to change you.
Like you need to humble yourself in order to even receive that grace in the first place, recognize your need and then have that, you know.
work of the holy spirit done in you so what do you think is like this fake grace in this like superficial grace that we're seeing people embed into their lives today it's
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