The Legal Rights that you give the enemy-Willful Sin

August 6, 2026

The Legal Rights that you give the enemy-Willful Sin

One of the most commons ways that a believer and non-believer can give the devil and his demonic kingdom access to your life is through willful unconfessed sin. We all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God (Romans 3:23) it is when you continue living in sin that you know the Lord does not approve of that we get ourselves into trouble. We have the Bible as our living manual that gives us the Lord’s rules and stipulations on how to live our lives as believers of Jesus Christ.

To top it off the Lord has given us the Holy Spirit as our Helper and our Guide. He is the One that will bring Scriptures to our remembrance when we need them the most, John 14:26. He is also the One that will convict the world of sin. John 16:8 details, “And when He has come, He will convict the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment.”

If the Lord did not take sin seriously, He wouldn’t of made it a point to give us a Helper to prevent us from sinning in the first place. He takes it extremely seriously because what sin does is separate us from Him. Isaiah 59:2 makes it very clear and it states, “But your iniquities have separated you from your God; And your sins have hidden His face from you, So that He will not hear.”

The Lord is Holy and cannot be in the midst of or in agreement with any kind of evildoing period. We can see that the prophet Isaiah is stating that God will even hide His face from you and will not hear you if you are living a life of habitual willful sin. Luckily, we have the Power of the Holy Spirit that gives us the strength to overcome any stronghold that we face.

Remember, 2 Corinthians 5:17 tells us, “Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.” That means that you do not have to be a salve to sin but have the ability through Christ and what He did for us on the cross to live a life free from captivity at the hand of the enemy. It will mean you taking a step back and being honest with yourself; are you engaging in things that are going to have eternal repercussions? If so, ask yourself, is it really worth it?

The Lord explains in Mark 8:36, “For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?” You could be rich, have the biggest house, the most clothes, and everything that you could ever want, but when you leave this Earth, you don’t get to take those things with you. Your soul is eternal and the fact is that you are the only one that can make the choice of where it will end up when you take your last breath. That is truly how serious it is! I am listing some of the most common willful sins that can be open doors that will allow the devil and his minions to legally come into your life and cause chaos.

Some examples of willful sin:

Adultery-

Matthew 5:27-28 “You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery.’ But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart.”

Fornication-

Galatians 5:19 “Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality.”

Idolatry-

Revelations 21:8 “But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, as for murderers, the sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their portion will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”

Murder-

Romans 1:29 “They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips.”

Sorcery-

Galatians 5:20-21 “idolatry and witchcraft; hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions 21 and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who live like this will not inherit the kingdom of God.”

Drunkenness-

Romans 13:12-13 “The night is far spent, the day is at hand. Therefore let us cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light. Let us walk properly, as in the day, not in revelry and drunkenness, not in lewdness and lust, not in strife and envy.”

These are just some of the sins committed that can open doors for the enemy to come in and wreak havoc in our lives. The reason why it is so critical that we try to remain obedient to the Lord’s Word is because it keeps us free from the demonic oppression that the devil wants to put us in. Remember, “For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord,” Romans 6:23. The more that we engage in willful sin the more we become a slave to that sin, John 8:34.

How the kingdom of darkness operates is they tempt or entice us to break the Lord’s spiritual rules and regulations by committing some form of sin. What that does is gives them the legal right to come into our lives in the hopes of developing strongholds through your transgressions.

The demonic spirits will continue to tempt you to commit that certain iniquity, like adultery for instance, so much so that you become a slave to it, John 8:34. Once that happens it is very difficult for you to stop participating in that particular sin even when you want to.

Sins of the heart

When people think of sin, they often only limit it to the ones that are an act of doing something like: fornication, adultery, drinking, stealing, or doing drugs. That is so far from the truth, there are sins committed in your heart that are just as bad. We have to remember that sin is sin regardless of what the transgression is. Jeremiah 17:9 lays it out perfectly when the prophet writes, “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked; who can know it?”

The Word of God really cannot get any clearer than that. Our hearts are extremely deceiving because a lot of us make most of our decisions based off of our emotions. It is a dangerous thing when you allow the enemy to get inside your heart and corrupt it. He will easily turn that distaste into animosity which will lead to bitterness and then hate.

Once the devil creates these foot holds in your life, he can alter the way that you begin to think about everything. That is why God’s Word lets us know that we are to be transformed by the renewing of our minds, Romans 12:2. When you allow the Lord’s Word to cleanse you in every area of your life you will see significant changes in the way that you think. Below I am listing some of the sins that we tend to commit in our hearts.

Pride-

Mark 7:21-22 “For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lewdness, and evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness.”

Jealousy-

2 Corinthians 12:20 “For I fear lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I wish, and that I shall be found by you such as you do not wish; lest there be contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, backbitings, whisperings, conceits, tumults.”

Hatred-

Titus 3:3 “For we ourselves were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful and hating one another.”

Anger-

Ephesians 4:26 “Be angry, and do not sin”: do not let the sun go down on your wrath.”

Bitterness-

Ephesians 4:31 “Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, clamor, and evil speaking be put away from you, with all malice.”

Lust-

1 Peter 4:3 “For we have spent enough of our past lifetime in doing the will of the Gentiles—when we walked in lewdness, lusts, drunkenness, revelries, drinking parties, and abominable idolatries.”

These are just some of the many sins committed within our hearts. As the body of Christ, we have to be willing to transform the way that we live and the manner in which we think. The way that we do that is by reading, studying, and abiding by the undiluted Word of the living God. Demonic activity and demonic influence is real and they have powerful methods that they use that allow the enemy access into your life. Whether you believe it or not, sinful actions are one of the ways that you will give Satan legal right to infiltrate your space.

There is every type of evil spirit that you can think of ready to cause emotional problems, physical ailments, spiritual atrophy, and mental issues in a person’s life because of the demonic strongholds that they allowed the enemy to establish. Our Heavenly Father allowed His only Son to be put on a cross to die for every one of our sins so that we could have a chance at eternal life, John 3:16. There is divine power in the blood of Jesus and the Name of Jesus.

Conclusion

You can overcome the devil and the forces of darkness by activating the authority that Jesus died for us to have. We need to allow Jesus Christ into our hearts as not just our Savior but our Lord as well. We need to turn away from all sin and everything that even remotely resembles the enemy, Acts 3:19. As you walk in unison with the Holy Spirit, He will give you the strength that you need to overcome the bondage of sin and the legal rights it gives the devil and his kingdom, Galatians 5:16.

The Lord tells us in His Word that we are to submit to Him and resist the devil, James 4:7. The more of the Bible that we allow into our hearts and minds, the easier it will become to follow what the Lord’s will is for our lives. The Holy Spirit will bring the Scriptures that you have stored in your heart to remembrance when you need them the most!

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