Destroying Every Enemy To Your Success

Pastor Gavin Taylor

When Israel was about to take possession of the Promised Land, God told them to kick every enemy out of the promised land. They were supposed to "drive out all the inhabitants of the land, destroy all their figured stones and all their molten images and completely demolish all their [idolatrous] high places, and take possession of the land and dwell in it". God instructed them to do this, because if anything remained of the former occupants, it would cause them to fall into the sin and miss out on all of the benefits and blessings that God had in store for them. God specifically said that, anything that remained would be "as pricks in your eyes and as thorns in your sides, and they shall vex them in the land in which you dwell". In other words, anything that was allowed to remain would be an enemy to their success, because it would be a point of entry for the devil. That’s why the Bible says to no give the devil a place, or an entry point into your life.