Supernatural: Principalities and Powers

There is a lot of inter­est in super­nat­ural or myth­i­cal beings. We have a lot of mis­un­der­stand­ings regard­ing them. The Bible has a lot of ref­er­ences to super­nat­ural beings.

1. Believe in all kinds of myth­i­cal beings
2. Don’t believe at all in super­nat­ural beings
3. Believe only in the Biblical super­nat­ural beings but they attribute to them too much power and too much activ­ity. They begin to wor­ship the beings.

Romans 8 [show]Romans 8 There is there­fore now no con­dem­na­tion for those who are in Christ Jesus. [2]For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death. [3]For God has done what the law, weak­ened by the flesh, could not do. By send­ing his own Son in the like­ness of sin­ful flesh and for sin, he con­demned sin in the flesh, [4]in order that the right­eous require­ment of the law might be ful­filled in us, who walk not accord­ing to the flesh but accord­ing to the Spirit. [5]For those who live accord­ing to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live accord­ing to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit. [6]For to set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace. [7]For the mind that is set on the flesh is hos­tile to God, for it does not sub­mit to God’s law; indeed, it can­not. [8]Those who are in the flesh can­not please God. [9]You, how­ever, are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if in fact the Spirit of God dwells in you. Anyone who does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to him. [10]But if Christ is in you, although the body is dead because of sin, the Spirit is life because of right­eous­ness. [11]If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mor­tal bod­ies through his Spirit who dwells in you. [12]So then, broth­ers, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live accord­ing to the flesh. [13]For if you live accord­ing to the flesh you will die, but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live. [14]For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God. [15]For you did not receive the spirit of slav­ery to fall back into fear, but you have received the Spirit of adop­tion as sons, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!” [16]The Spirit him­self bears wit­ness with our spirit that we are chil­dren of God, [17]and if chil­dren, then heirs–heirs of God and fel­low heirs with Christ, pro­vided we suf­fer with him in order that we may also be glo­ri­fied with him. [18]For I con­sider that the suf­fer­ings of this present time are not worth com­par­ing with the glory that is to be revealed to us. [19]For the cre­ation waits with eager long­ing for the reveal­ing of the sons of God. [20]For the cre­ation was sub­jected to futil­ity, not will­ingly, but because of him who sub­jected it, in hope [21]that the cre­ation itself will be set free from its bondage to cor­rup­tion and obtain the free­dom of the glory of the chil­dren of God. [22]For we know that the whole cre­ation has been groan­ing together in the pains of child­birth until now. [23]And not only the cre­ation, but we our­selves, who have the first­fruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for adop­tion as sons, the redemp­tion of our bod­ies. [24]For in this hope we were saved. Now hope that is seen is not hope. For who hopes for what he sees? [25]But if we hope for what we do not see, we wait for it with patience. [26]Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weak­ness. For we do not know what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit him­self inter­cedes for us with groan­ings too deep for words. [27]And he who searches hearts knows what is the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit inter­cedes for the saints accord­ing to the will of God. [28]And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called accord­ing to his pur­pose. [29]For those whom he foreknew he also pre­des­tined to be con­formed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the first­born among many broth­ers. [30]And those whom he pre­des­tined he also called, and those whom he called he also jus­ti­fied, and those whom he jus­ti­fied he also glo­ri­fied. [31]What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? [32]He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him gra­ciously give us all things? [33]Who shall bring any charge against God’s elect? It is God who jus­ti­fies. [34]Who is to con­demn? Christ Jesus is the one who died–more than that, who was raised–who is at the right hand of God, who indeed is inter­ced­ing for us. [35]Who shall sep­a­rate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribu­la­tion, or dis­tress, or per­se­cu­tion, or famine, or naked­ness, or dan­ger, or sword? [36]As it is writ­ten, “For your sake we are being killed all the day long; we are regarded as sheep to be slaugh­tered.“ [37]No, in all these things we are more than con­querors through him who loved us. [38]For I am sure that nei­ther death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor pow­ers, [39]nor height nor depth, nor any­thing else in all cre­ation, will be able to sep­a­rate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord. (ESV)

Supernatural God with a super­nat­ural love for us. His love us greater than any­thing. His love is more faith­ful than any­thing. 1 John 4:9–10 [show]1 John 4:9–10 [9]In this the love of God was made man­i­fest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him. [10]In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the pro­pi­ti­a­tion for our sins. (ESV)
God’s love is beyond any­thing that we can comprehend.

What is the one thing that we can­not for­give our­selves? We need to take that to God, His love can con­queror all. We need to trust God, that He can take care of all.

Other super­nat­ural players.

Man — the low being on the super­nat­ural totem pole. All of nature is in man’s domain. But there will be a time when there will be a flip flop and we will move up the ladder.

Since at a time in the future we will judge the angels we need to be good to each others.

Angels and demons are at the same level. Demons are sim­ply fallen angels. Satan is sim­ply a fallen angel.

Satan wants mankind to think he is more pow­er­ful than he is. As pow­er­ful as God. But he is sim­ply a fallen angel. They want to pre­oc­cupy our atten­tion on any thing other than God.

Demons only have author­ity over us when we allow it. God is in com­plete con­trol and when we serve Him, demons have no author­ity over us or power. Satan can’t touch us. Yes he is like a lion seek­ing to destroy us but he is pow­er­less because of what Jesus did on the cross.

Nothing is more pow­er­ful than God.

What should we do?

Don’t get caught up in wor­ship­ing any­thing other than God.

Build up our rela­tion­ship with God.