Hello @CS1
I do understand what you’re saying about True Christian Holy Spirit-Filled Believers NOT being able to be “demon-possessed” but don’t these same Believers have to guard their hearts with all diligence…. don’t I have to choose to sin? What really causes me to sin?
Didn’t Ananias and his wife Sapphira choose to lie?
But a certain man named Ananias, with Sapphira his wife, sold a possession, And kept back part of the price, his wife also being privy to it, and brought a certain part, and laid it at the apostles' feet.
But Peter said, Ananias,
why hath Satan filled thine heart to lie to the Holy Ghost, and to keep back part of the price of the land? Whiles it remained, was it not thine own? and after it was sold, was it not in thine own power?
why hast thou conceived this thing in thine
heart? thou hast not lied unto men, but unto God.
Acts 5:1-4 -
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage?search=Acts 5:1-4&version=KJV
Peter asked, “Why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit…?
What do you suppose it means for “Satan to fill our heart”? Isn’t our heart somewhere inside of us?
Obviously, there is a place in us that Satan or devils or demons can occupy….it’s our heart.
Where is our heart? I believe our heart is the combination of our emotions and our will which are 2 parts of our soul.
Our soul is our mind, will and emotions.
We are to guard our hearts with all diligence. Our hearts can become defiled unclean and filled with bitterness, resentment, unforgiveness, covetousness, envy, jealousy…. even though we know the Truth and are saved.
Jesus said…
Hereafter I will not talk much with you: for the prince of this world cometh, and hath
nothing in me.
John 14:30 -
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage?search=John 14:30&version=KJV
Paul said….
Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath:
Neither give place to the devil.
Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth.
Ephesians 4:26-28 -
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage?search=Ephesians 4:26-28&version=KJV
These are “heart” issues that Paul is talking about.
If our hearts become defiled it gives Satan, devils, demons, evil spirits a place in us to occupy. They have to be cast out.
We have to repent and ask God to create in us a CLEAN heart and renew a RIGHT spirit IN US.