GraceLife Thoughts – Don’t Fellowship with Demons

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GraceLife Thoughts – Don’t Fellowship with Demons

The Apostle Paul sent a warning to the Christians in Corinth – “I do not want you to have fellowship with demons.” (1 Corinthians 10:20) He wrote that in the context of the Lord’s Supper and “things offered to idols.” Interestingly, Paul addressed Israel’s history of idol worship while wandering in the wilderness, then told the Corinthians to “flee from idolatry.” In that context, Paul wrote this –

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Observe Israel after the flesh: Are not those who eat of the sacrifices partakers of the altar? What am I saying then? That an idol is anything, or what is offered to idols is anything? Rather, that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice they sacrifice to demons and not to God, and I do not want you to have fellowship with demons. You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons; you cannot partake of the Lord’s table and of the table of demons. 1 Corinthians 10:18-21

Think about what Paul was saying. He did not want Christians “to have fellowship with demons.” How could Christians “fellowship” with demons? The Greek word translated “fellowship” is κοινωνός. It means “a joint-participant, a sharer, a partner, a companion.” Can you imagine partnering with demons as a child of God? Paul said it was happening in the Corinthian church and needed to stop. Many Christians today are “partnering, participating, cooperating,” with demons, whether they realize it or not.

James, the half-brother of Jesus, warned about a wisdom that “does not descend from above, but is earthly, sensual, demonic.” (James 3:15) The Apostle John warned that people in the end times would “worship demons, and idols of gold, silver, brass, stone, and wood” rather than repent of their evil. (Revelation 9:20)

Demons existed before humans did. They have long been involved in deceiving people into worshipping false gods. Demons accepted the worship of humans. Moses wrote this in Leviticus 17 – “They shall no more offer their sacrifices to demons, after whom they have played the harlot” (Leviticus 17:7). Blood sacrifices were made to gods. God revealed in Leviticus that demons were some, if not all, of the gods that people sacrificed to in Egypt and other nations of the ancient world. Paul pointed that out in 1 Corinthians when he wrote about Gentiles sacrificing to demons and not to God. Then Paul wrote, “you cannot partake of the Lord’s table and of the table of demons.”

Christians cannot have it both ways. They cannot partner with demons through Neo-paganism and still worship God. God is “a jealous God” and will not share Himself with demons. “You shall have no other gods before Me” (Exodus 20:3). Mixing worship of God with worship of demons is missing the narrow gate. You are now on a broad road that leads to destruction.

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