One of the enemy’s favorite topics to target is the Holy Spirit. This is no coincidence, since what the Church does with the person and presence of the Holy Spirit will determine how much of Heaven is advanced and how much darkness is restrained on earth. The more the enemy can confuse the Church about the role of the Holy Spirit, the more he can gain influence. It is unfortunate, but the very Spirit of God that empowers ordinary men and women to be a restraining force to darkness in the earth has become reduced to being a controversial doctrine that we tolerate, at best, and reject, at worst. This should not be so!
Satan hates the Holy Spirit intensely for one key reason: the Christian who fully embraces the revelation that he or she is actually filled with the same Spirit that raised Jesus from the dead becomes a spiritual Joshua or Caleb who enters into and releases the promised land of Heaven on earth. We begin thinking, speaking, and acting like people who are, quite literally, possessed by God. Surely, this throws a wrench into satan’s diabolical plans.
This is why the enemy so persistently perpetuates lies about the Holy Spirit. He’s done this since the beginning of church history, causing division about how equal (or non-equal) the Holy Spirit is to God the Father and God the Son. Controversy has continued all the way up into our modern era, when everything from speaking in tongues to the continuation of miracles to being “slain in the Spirit” is on the table for theological debate and division. Yet, while Christians are dividing over the Holy Spirit, darkness is gaining ground through damnable heresy being promoted within the Church (universalism, progressive Christianity, hyper-grace teaching, etc.). This must stop if we are going to see a great worldwide revival prior to the Second Coming of Jesus.
