Blaming a demon for sickness, moral failure, spiritual lethargy, blindness to God’s way, financial and professional mediocrity is a cop out.  It may sound cute, and may work for the benefit of those who like to conduct exorcisms, to blame every problem on a spirit.  There is no easy proof the demons cause sickness, moral failure spiritual lethargy, blindness to God’s way financially professional mediocrity. Almost all of the shortcomings of the human race begin with the individual. You don’t need a demon to tell you if I hit your neighbor. When you have prophets like Moses and scribes like Ezra telling you that God wants you to do it, who needs a demon? Blame a spirit for everything and every  Christian is the active victim of an opposing spirit, and there being only one divine Spirit, then the other spirit must be demons.  Play that game and enjoy your repeated catastrophic tumbles

Why are demons so prevalent among redeemed people

The only places where demons get elevated attention are the places where demons have prevailed to snare people with unique doctrines.  The doctrines so named in the Bible are not many, but they are a rude awakening to the careless.  Here are four from 1 Timothy 4:2-3.

• speaking lies in hypocrisy
• having their conscience seared with a hot iron
• forbidding to marry
• commanding to abstain from meats (foods)

When were the movements of religious practitioners ever free from errors

• hypocritical lies are inevitable when people try to claim perfection
• People burn out their consciences and conflate good and bad
• Irrelevand and discredited racial and tribal purity become a priority
• discrimination over food is a symptom of juvenile sensuality

We might ask which of the movements – reform or revival – is not the victim of deception that results in one of the four malfunctions of 1 Timothy 4. This is a question that mamy will refuse to answer, either because they are so mired in error, or embarassment prevents the leaders from acknowledging deadly errors. What spirit could possibly have moved people to habitually lie hypocritically, burn their consciences, forbid marriage, and demand dietary scruples?

Deadly imitation of powerful Christians

Then some of the itinerant Jewish exorcists undertook to invoke the name of the Lord Jesus over those who had evil spirits, saying, “I adjure you by the Jesus whom Paul proclaims.” Acts 19:13

Seven sons of a Jewish high priest named Sceva were doing this. Acts 19:14 But the evil spirit answered them, “Jesus I know, and Paul I recognize, but who are you?” Acts 19:15

And the man in whom was the evil spirit leaped on them, mastered all of them and overpowered them, so that they fled out of that house naked and wounded. Acts 19:16

Abyssal rabbit hole

If what GOD has not given is to be understood as a particular sprint then by all means what he has given is to understood as particular spirits, namely, (1) a spirit of power (2) a spirit of love (3) a spirit of mental discipline

For God has not given us a spirit of timidity, but of power and love and discipline.

2 Timothy 1:7, NASB