When an unclean spirit comes out of a man, it roams through waterless places looking for rest but doesn't find any. Then it says, "I'll go back to my house that I came from," and returning, it finds the house vacant, swept and put in order. Then off it goes and brings with it seven other spirits more evil than itself, and they enter and settle down there. As a result, that man's last condition is worse than the first. That's how it will also be with this evil generation. Matt 12:43-45
Total surrender of one's soul to the Holy Spirit will lead to the pushing out of the evil contained in the heart.
My study of God's word has lead me to understand that a person's heart is deceptive and incurable apart from a miracle of God. Every person's heart is full of evil but when the Holy Spirit takes up residence evil is going to eventually be forced out. The believer will do well to recognize that their heart is going to be filled either with evil or with God's Spirit.
Within every believer is the inter struggle of God's will and the spiritual forces of evil. My thought is to the degree the Spirit fills the heart evil will be emptied. In other words the greater we allow the Spirit to fill us the less evil that can exist in our hearts. But the reverse is also true. The less we allow the Spirit to fill the greater the evil that will reside in the heart. The believer's only option is to love God with all of their heart which will cause their action to aline with God's will and the resulting in a heart consumed by the Spirit.
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