A life that challenges the enemy

Nehemiah 5:9So I continued, “What you are doing is not right. Shouldn’t you walk in the fear of our God to avoid the reproach of our Gentile enemies?

Enemy, the Mocker:

We all know that the enemy is a great accuser and he is also a great mocker.

We know the story of seven sons of Scava who tried imitating Paul in driving out the demons by invoking the name of the Lord Jesus Christ:

Acts 19:13
Then some of the itinerant Jewish exorcists undertook to invoke the name of the Lord Jesus over those who had evil spirits, saying, “I adjure you by the Jesus whom Paul proclaims.”

They just called upon the name of Jesus, but their lives didn’t backup salvation. And see how the enemy mocked at them:

Acts 19:15-16
But the evil spirit answered them, “Jesus I know, and Paul I recognize, but who are you?”And the man in whom was the evil spirit leaped on them, mastered all of them and overpowered them, so that they fled out of that house naked and wounded.

The devil mocks at the attempts to bind him, confession of the Lord‘s name, when the life doesn’t backup the confession!!

Our Lord, the Testifier:

But our Lord, on the contrary never accuses us nor mock at us on our failures, but testifies about our righteous lives in the presence of the enemy.

Job 1:8
And the Lord said to Satan, „Have you considered my servant Job, that there is none like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man, who fears God and turns away from evil?”

It is so interesting to see that God didn’t testify about Job’s wealth or his reputation or about the vast cattle & servants he had, BUT ABOUT HIS CHARACTER!!

Unlike the rich Jews, and the sons of Scava, who lead a life of mockery to the enemy, Job lived a life that challenged the enemy!

Application:

Yes dear sisters, only a life that honors God, a life of testimony, will challenge and threaten the enemy! We may try binding devil in the name of our Lord/blood of Christ, we may confess or proclaim scriptures, but does our life of testimony back up our confession??

Scriptures clearly says that:

Revelation 12:10-11
And I heard a loud voice in heaven, saying, “Now the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God and the authority of his Christ have come, for the accuser of our brothers has been thrown down, who accuses them day and night before our God. And they have conquered him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, for they loved not their lives even unto death.

We can conquer the enemy only by the blood of the lamb and by the word of our testimony! Without a life of testimony, we will be just a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal, we will be just beating the air, we become an object of mockery like the sons of Scava.

May we desperately seek in prayers to lead a life of testimony before God and man, then we become real challenge to the enemy!!