May 17 2011, 3:30 pm | David Hudson
"For our sake God made Him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God" (II Corinthians 5:21).
I am plagued sometimes by the accusations of demons calling up my sins. But if 2 Corinthians is true, I have an airtight defense and can say with the confidence of Job:
"(13:7) Will you speak falsely for God and speak deceitfully for Him? (9) Will it be well with you when He searches you out? Or can you deceive Him, as one deceives a man? (10) He will surely rebuke you... (18) Behold, I have prepared my case; I know that I shall be in the right."
The blood of Jesus is my case. I know I'll be in the right when God judges me because I have the righteousness of Jesus and you can't get anymore right than that!
"Even now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and He who testifies for me is on high!" (Job 16:19)
Martin Luther, who for years suffered from episodes of demonic accusation, was a strong advocate of what he called jeering at the devil. When the enemy accuses you of sin, turn it back on him: "Come on, you can do better than that! You forgot to mention ____. That one is way worse! You pathetic liar, I defy you to find a sin in me that's bigger than the cleansing power of the blood of Christ! I dare you try, because...
"I know that my Redeemer lives, and at the last He will stand upon the earth. And after my skin has been thus destroyed yet in my flesh I shall see God, whom I shall see for myself, and my eyes shall behold Him and not another. If you say, 'How I will pursue him' and 'The root of the matter is found in him,' be afraid of the sword, for wrath brings the punishment of the sword, that you may know there is a judgment." (Job 19:25-29)
And if that's not enough humiliation to satisfy you, finish it off with a Luther favorite: "I resist the devil, and often it is with a fart that I chase him away."