He was a captive and enslaved in mind and body to Satan.
Between man and his new and cruel master there was complete harmony.
Satan’s mind was man’s mind and will.
But thank the Lord, the merciful and true God, mankind was not left in this enslavement.
For immediately from His gracious lips there passed to Satan the ominous sentence, and to all mankind the blest assurance, that this alliance of enslavement was forever broken up. Genesis 3:14,15 And the Lord God said unto the serpent… I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed; it shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel.
By the infinite power of that divine word, enmity was then planted between mankind and Satan; and from that moment to this, there has been no unity of mind or of soul between mankind and Satan, and no unity between even any individual and Satan except upon the continuous, persistent, and determined choice of the individual himself.
The working of this divinely implanted enmity is fully described in the following inspired passage:
The working of this divinely implanted enmity is fully described in the following inspired passage:
Romans 7:15-24 That which I do I allow not: for what I would,
that do I not; but what I hate, that do I. If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that it [the law] is good.
Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwells in me.
For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwells no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not.
For the good that I would I do not:
but the evil which I would not, that I do.
Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwells in me.
I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me.
For I delight in the law of God after the inward man;
But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.
Q: O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?
The warfare there described between the good and the evil,
is in every soul that ever came into the world.
Every soul knows better than he does. He knows the good and “would do it.” And though he hates the evil, he hates the evil that he does; and many times even fairly hates himself for doing the evil that he hates."
A.T. Jones
