How To Deal With Demons, Curses, Hexes, Spells and Spiritual ...

(Gal 4:1-10 NKJV) ...{3} Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under
the elements of the world ("stoichea"). {4} But when the fullness of the time had come,
God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under the law, {5} to redeem those who
were under the law, that we might receive the adoption as sons. {6} And because you
are sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of His Son into your hearts, crying out, "Abba,
Father!" {7} Therefore you are no longer a slave but a son, and if a son, then an heir of
God through Christ. {8} But then, indeed, when you did not know God, you served those
which by nature are not gods. {9} But now after you have known God, or rather are
known by God, how is it that you turn again to the weak and beggarly elements, to
which you desire again to be in bondage? {10} You observe days and months and
seasons and years.Thus the religious observance of "days and months, and seasons and
years" is a sign of being in bondage to the "elements of the world".
These external observances are no longer a part of the Christian faith. You can use a
calendar - but you must not attach any religious significance to the dates on it! Faith not
festivals is what makes us closer to God.
Paul amplifies this at length in Colossians chapter 2 and I will only quote a portion of it
here. Firstly He shows how the cross disarmed the principalities and powers and took
away their legal right to enforce their taboos.
(Col 2:13-23 NKJV) And you, being dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of
your flesh, He has made alive together with Him, having forgiven you all trespasses,
{14} having wiped out the handwriting of requirements that was against us, which was
contrary to us. And He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross. {15}
Having disarmed principalities and powers, He made a public spectacle of them,
triumphing over them in it.
Then Paul carefully goes through the consequences of being forgiven and of no longer
being under the power of laws, taboos and ceremonies.{16} So let no one judge you in
food or in drink, or regarding a festival or a new moon or sabbaths, {17} which are a
shadow of things to come, but the substance is of Christ. {18} Let no one cheat you of
your reward, taking delight in false humility and worship of angels, intruding into those
things which he has not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind, {19} and not holding
fast to the Head, from whom all the body, nourished and knit together by joints and
ligaments, grows with the increase that is from God.
The radical nature of our freedom from these "basic principles of the world" is described
as a "death". Just how many responsibilities does a dead person have? None! So the
Christian no longer has any obligatory responsibilities to cultural taboos, festivals,
sabbaths or dietary regulations. Paul continues..{20} Therefore, if you died with Christ
from the basic principles of the world, why, as though living in the world, do you subject
yourselves to regulations; {21} "Do not touch, do not taste, do not handle," {22} which
all concern things which perish with the using; according to the commandments and
doctrines of men? {23} These things indeed have an appearance of wisdom in selfimposed
religion, false humility, and neglect of the body, but are of no value against the
indulgence of the flesh.
To put it simply all "religiosity" has been put behind us when we enter into the death,
resurrection and ascension of the Lord Jesus Christ.